Oregon White & Black Truffle

Tuber gibbosum / Leucangium carthusianum

Opens Nov 182d out

Open

Nov 1 – Mar 31

Best

Jan–Feb

underripe

Nov

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Aroma develops with in-ground maturity through the wet winter, not a discrete fruiting event; ripeness peaks midwinter.

signal · Soil temperature and cumulative winter soil moisture in fir duff. (sourced)

Plate No. 003 · Finley & Bohlman

Tread lightly

The mushroom is only the fruit, but raking the duff to find them tears the mycelial mat that fruits year after year. Cut what's up, leave the ground undisturbed, and never strip a patch.

The read

Underground tubers in dense young Douglas-fir stands; best found with trained dogs.

The event: Winter ripening in fir duff; maturity, not a single event.

What we watch: live feeds

Rainfall Open-Meteo ↗Soil temp NRCS SNOTEL ↗

The Kit

what a forager carries

Gear: Opinel No.08 mushroom knifeREI ↗Nisaku hori-hori trowel-knifeAmazon ↗PNWBUSHCRAFT waxed-canvas pouchmade in WAmakerExcalibur 9-tray dehydratorAmazon ↗
Wear: Xtratuf Legacy bootsREI ↗Grundéns Neptune jacketBackcountry ↗
Reading: All That the Rain Promises and MoreAroraBookshop.org ↗Mushrooms of the Pacific NorthwestTrudell & AmmiratiBookshop.org ↗Fruits of the ForestWinklerBookshop.org ↗

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Sources

What informs Oregon White & Black Truffle in particular. The shared feeds it reads (tides, weather, water temp) are the live feeds above.

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