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The black summer truffle (Tuber Aestivum Vitt.) weighs approximately 20/25 grams upwards. Shipment will be done by Express Courier and 500 grams is the minimum order.

It has a globular, sometimes lobate  shape with brown-black rind and  tightly-spaced warts with a depression at their summit and lengthwise grooves.

The gleba or pulp is grey-brown or purplish-black in colour and marbled with thin white veins.

The spores are spinulate.

It is gathered during the summer in particular in the months from the half of June to the end of September; Especially under oaks, hazels, poplars, willows and different variety of trees proportionally to the Region where this truffle grows.

It is found frequently in Italy, Spain and south of France but is gathered and appreciated particularly in France.

With its specific flavour and fragrant odour, it is highly appreciated for culinary purposes and is considered by the French people as the best truffle after their black wnter truffle

It is eaten row or cooked and is used even cutted with the trufflecutter or more simply chopped up with a knife and utilized as a sausage with a small quantity of good olive oil.