Black truffles are displayed for sale at a market in Sainte-Alvère, in southwestern France, on December 18, 2006. ... "We planted the trees just to monitor their survival, ...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (Fortune Small Business) -- I take my first bite of a truffle in Franklin Garland's sunlit kitchen, which overlooks a greenhouse and an orchard of budding hazelnut trees. In ...

The black truffle grows on oak tree roots and scientists have learned it reproduces sexually. Discovery News Nov. 9, 2010, 5:55 PM EST / Source : Discovery Channel ...

The truffles are coming A new crop of American dreamers are betting the farm on truffles, which Europeans have savored like sex for ages. But can the Yanks get the mysterious mushrooms to grow?

Instead of using hazelnut trees, Lefevre supplied the Angerers with 200 English oak and 200 stone pine trees inoculated with Tuber borchii (the fungus that creates white Bianchetto truffles), a ...

So the family planted about 2,200 holly oak trees they inoculated so the truffles would grow, he said. In the meantime, the family trimmed the holly oaks to keep the tree 2 meters tall, as is ...

Every morning, for three months of the year, Lola wakes up at 8 and goes hunting. She races past oak trees, running at full speed through a 50-hectare field set in the southern end of the province ...

In Italy, black truffle season marks a time to revere the black, roughly hewn morels. They are harvested under oak and hazelnut trees from December through March. For chefs, black truffles add ...

The fragrance of a fresh Perigord black truffle, ... Tenn., Tom Michaels runs Tennessee Truffle. He has 2,500 trees on 18 acres, all inoculated with French truffle stock.