Uncinate Truffle - Agostini Tartufi

The Tartufo Uncinatum, commonly called Tartufo Uncinato/Uncinate Truffles, is very similar to the summer truffle, so much so that some experts to consider it almost a variant of the latter. The Glebe is darker than that of the Black Summer, almost chocolate brown in mature specimens, the surface is wrinkled.

Main features:

• Middleweight: 5-200 gr.
• Fruiting body: 5-15 cm.
• Collection period: from September to December.
• Collection regions: Piedmont, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania, Molise.
• Period: With warts do not striated crosswise.
• Glebe: Darker than the summer truffle, almost chocolate brown in mature specimens.
• Smell:stronger and more pleasant than the summer truffle.
• Spore: with grid more developed than in T. aestivum, often two times higher, with pockets with curved edges a hook.