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Posted by Richard Brooks on September 15, 2007, 2:11 pm
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> "Richard Brooks" wrote ...
>> Has anyone found a truffle in their back garden?
>>
>> My back garden in Cowley, Oxford is not so much a garden as more a
>> wildlife haven/orchard with the soil where I dug the thing up (under the
>> shade of hazel nut trees), not touched or chemically treated in any way in
>> over twenty years.
>>
>> I thought that maybe it was the inner flesh of a Horse chestnut and if
>> those have a nice smell almost like you'd smell in Chinese cooking a bit
>> like roasted soy sauce then that's what it must have been.
>>
>> When cut, it does have the marbling of this thing but the outside was a
>> smoother, more uniform creamy colour.
>>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_(genus)#White_truffle>
>>
>> It's been sitting in a polythene bag so dried out somewhat but this thing
>> has been puzzling me for a few weeks.
>>
>> I can't believe that you'd find them in people's back gardens, let alone
>> in Cowley in Oxford!
>
> Richard, did you buy any of the trees in your back garden when they were
> largish? If so they probably came from Italy where they have tree specialist
> nurseries and the truffle came with it on the roots.
I did get them as small trees about 2metres tall and I think it was
Yarnton Nurseries just north of Oxford.
Really thinking it was a conker I just took it indoors and put it in a
polythene bag - where it has dried out!
> Worth a lot of money too.
> May be worth re-posting on uk.rec.gardening and/or uk.rec.natural-history.
I did a keyword search on 'garden' in my Usenet groups list but didn't
find a uk group but I shall search again.
Many thanks for you help.
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