Truffle
FRUITING BODY OF A SUBTERRANEAN FUNGUS (HERE FOCUS ON CUISINE, NOT ON TAXONOMY)
Truffles; Truffel; Truffle mushrooms; Truffle (fungi); Truffle salt; Truffle (fungus); Truffe; Appalachian truffle; Tuber canaliculatum
A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus Tuber. In addition to Tuber, many other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, Leucangium, and over a hundred others.