Aestivum

The most common and widely consumed truffle, the summer black truffle scientific named Tuber Aestivum. This truffle can reach notable dimensions and is very similar to the black truffle. The outer surface shows pyramidal warts of brown color. It has a strong aromatic scent, but at the cut it differs from the black fine one, because the glebe does not become dark, but tends to a dark yellow. It grows in both sandy and clayey soils, in deciduous forests, pine forests and even in the old olive groves.It is very appreciated in the kitchen and it is used for the production of sausages and sauces, creams and oils. There is also a winter variant of this kind of truffle, known as uncinated truffle (Tuber Uncinatum).

•  Peridium: warty, formed by protruding warts, coarse and pointed at the end, black colored.

•  Glebe: hazel with yellowish hues, crossed by white veins, highly branched, more or less fine.

•  Shape: generally rounded.

•  Dimensions: The black summer truffle has a rather high average size, sometimes some specimens may reach half a kg of weight.