Source - Self-cultivated Part - Cap Color - Black or Brown Size - 2-5cm Taste - Typical Delicious Grade - A Truffle has a special smell, contains rich protein, amino acids and other nutrients, therefore with foie gras, caviar, known as the king of the world's three major Jane flavour. The truffle is a hypogean mushroom that grows underground. The fruit, shaped like a tuber, consists of a fleshy mass, called gleba, covered with a sort of bark called peridium; the characteristics of structure and the color of these parts allow to easily distinguish the various types of truffles. It is formed in high percentage by water and mineral salts absorbed by the soil through the roots of the tree with which it enters into symbiosis: there's a special relationship between some types of tree and the fungus, in which the first nourishes and protects the second, creating the perfect habitat for its growth.