This recipe uses a homemade whole wheat crust. There are so many ways to customise this recipe! Depending on the place you live or need to develop truffles and on what scale, there are scientists andconsultants accessible to aid you in your endeavors. Where there's an trade, the fungus receives some of the carbohydrates photosynthesized by the plant and the plant obtains various inorganic nutrients and hint elements which the mycelium has extracted from the soil. Evidently the roots of a few of them have been "infected" with the mycelium of the valuable fungus. Synonym Pisolithus tinctorius. This fungus is thought in Australia as "the horse dung fungus" and in Europe as "the Bohemian truffle" (Böhmische trüffel). It is a widespread species found in North America and Europe. Have a look at this snapshot that I took of the black Perigord after the filming of my truffle searching trip at Keep Your Fork truffle farm in North Carolina.