Journal
ECONOMIC BOTANY
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 497-506Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-008-9041-8
Keywords
Hypogeous fungi; mycorrhizae; Ascomycota; Pezizales; Pezizaceae; Elderia; Horakiella; Mattirolomyces; Mycoclelandia; Reddellomyces; Ulurua; Aboriginal use
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- Australian CSIRO Division of Sustainable Ecosystems
- Australian Biological Resources Survey
- USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon
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Desert Truffles of the Australian Outback: Ecology, Ethnomycology, and Taxonomy. The Aborigines of central Australia have traditionally used desert truffles as food. Truffle hunting in the desert requires substantial ecological knowledge, as truffles occur sporadically and only with adequate and properly distributed rainfall as well as the presence of necessary soil conditions and mycorrhizal hosts. Truffles are hunted primarily by women, who look for cracks or humps in the soil caused by expansion of the truffles, which are then extracted with digging sticks. The truffles are typically eaten raw or baked or roasted in ashes. Seven truffle species are recorded from the Australian Outback, including three that have been only recently described.
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