Description
The Tuber Aestivum Vitt is widely known as 'Scorzone' in Italian, a Black Summer Truffle that is one of the less precious truffles. These black tubers are milder than their winter cousins making them perfect for adding an exquisite touch to many summer dishes.
Their gleba is hazel and more or less yellowish in ripe truffles, and often even lighter, and it has many whitish veins of varying thickness, ramified and joined together. The rugged surface is completely covered in pyramidal warts.
Black Summer Truffles Season: from April-May to August
Harvest Regions: Piedmont, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania, Molise
Symbiotics plants: generally Turkey oak, downy oak, common hazel, black and white hornbeam, English oak, oak, beech, black pine, poplar