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Description:
Globular in shape but often flattened and very irregular with pale yellow or pale grey rind or even ochreous with red-brown blotches, smooth or with a very fine down more readily found in the younger truffles. The flesh is characterised by many clear highly branched veins and varies from a pale flesh colour to red-brown. The spores are reticulate. It may grow as large as a tennis ball but is usually the size of a walnut or hazelnut.
It can be found all the year round but is gathered most frequently in the opening months of the year under pines, larches, oaks, hazels, poplars. It is very common and has also been gathered in Australia, America and recently in China.
Its garlicky odour, sometimes particularly penetrating when it is ripe, tends to exclude it from the most prized species even though it is sold normally and, in view of its colour, also served dishonestly instead of its more renowned relation, the T. magnatum Pico. Some times, the T. borchii may also be confused with the T. maculatum Vitt., characterised by a particular odour and the T. foetidum Vitt. which has a strong nauseating odour.
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