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Did you know... that black truffles suppress plant growth around their host tree, creating an area that looks burned?
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Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion
I think this article should be titled under the scientific name, as there are several common names, none of which are dominant in the popular literature. For example, the Field Guide to North American Truffles (Trappe, Evans & Trappe, 2007) refers to it as the "French black"; Taming the Truffle (Hall, Brown, Zambonelli, 2007) calls it the "black Périgord truffle" (but lists it under the scientific name in the index); The Book of Fungi (Roberts & Evans, 2011) call it the "black truffle"; the European field guide Mushrooms (Laessoe & Lincoff, 2002) call it simply the "Perigord truffle". I can provide many more examples from my library, but I think the pattern will be the same. Sasata (talk) 07:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
