Geopora cooperi
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| Species: | G. cooperi
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| Geopora cooperi Harkn. (1885) | |
Geopora cooperi, commonly known as the pine truffle or the fuzzy truffle, is a species of fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. It has a fuzzy brown outer surface and an inner surface of whitish, convoluted folds of tissue. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, the species has been recorded from Asia, Europe, and North America.
Taxonomy
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Description
The roughly spherical fruit bodies grow underground. Ranging from 2 to 8 cm (3⁄4 to 3+1⁄8 in) in diameter, they are yellow-brown to darker brown with a fuzzy, furrowed external surface.[2] The inside of the fruit body, the whitish gleba, comprises deeply folded and convoluted tissue with some internal open spaces between them.[4][5] Young pine truffles ooze a whitish juice when they are cut.[2] The odor of the internal flesh is usually mild, but David Arora has noted the existence of a form in the Western United States that smells similar to fermented cider. Geopora cooperi fruit bodies are edible[4] and considered good by some.[5]
The smooth, elliptical or roughly spherical
Habitat and distribution
| Geopora cooperi mycorrhizal | |
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Fruit bodies grow singly or in groups under the soil surface near conifers and
References
- ^ Harkness HW. (1885). "Fungi of the pacific coast". Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences. 1 (3): 159–77.
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- ^ Çinar H, Sermenli HB, Işiloğlu M (2014). "Some critically endangered species From Turkey" (PDF). Fungal Conservation (4): 26–28.