Truffles (Truffle-like fungi)

The bulk of the truffle-like fruiting bodies are more-or-less spherical, though there is some variation in shape. They display a great variety of colours (for example - white, pink, yellow, orange, red, brown, purple), sizes (from a few millimetres to several centimetres in diameter) and consistency (from very soft to almost rock-hard).

Many of the truffle-like fruiting bodies mature underground and either never show above the surface or, at most, protrude just a fraction.

About 300 truffle-like species are documented for Australia with estimates of 1200-2400 as the eventual number of truffle-like species in Australia.

Please read https://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/truffle-like.html for further information on the topic of Truffles