Black vs winter truffles (IMAGE)

University of Florida

Black vs winter truffles

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Black truffles (left) and winter truffles look nearly identical but fetch very different prices. A new study shows that many truffle farmers are unintentionally harvesting winter truffles instead of the more valuable black truffles.

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Bend Lemmond

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