Whats the difference between a truffle and a mushroom?
We searched for truffles in Yahoo!, and found many vendors of the decadent chocolate candy, but it was truffles of the underground variety we were after. An advanced search on “+truffles +mushrooms” located the definitive answer at the Olympia National Park’s official web site. From the moist and mushroomy Pacific Northwest comes the distinction between mushrooms and truffles: Fungi “that sprout fruiting bodies above ground are called mushrooms … underneath the ground, we call them truffles.” We hunted around for more detail and turned up Yahoo!’s Mycology category. At Dave Fischer’s North American Mushroom Basics we learned that mushrooms are not plants at all, they’re the fruiting bodies of certain funguses (or fungi), members of the Fungi Kingdom, which also includes molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, and yeasts. The
We searched for truffles in Yahoo!, and found many vendors of the decadent chocolate candy, but it was truffles of the underground variety we were after. An advanced search on “+truffles +mushrooms” located the definitive answer at the Olympia National Park’s official web site. From the moist and mushroomy Pacific Northwest comes the distinction between mushrooms and truffles: Fungi “that sprout fruiting bodies above ground are called mushrooms … underneath the ground, we call them truffles.” We hunted around for more detail and turned up Yahoo!’s Mycology category. At Dave Fischer’s North American Mushroom Basics we learned that mushrooms are not plants at all, they’re the fruiting bodies of certain funguses (or fungi), members of the Fungi Kingdom, which also includes molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, and yeasts. The
