Have you ever eaten a truffle? Black and white truffles are some of the most expensive and rare types of edible fungi! They are sometimes foraged in the wild, or they may be cultivated (grown) in special truffle orchards.
Truffles have a reciprocal relationship with the trees in the forests. They grow under the ground, near the roots, and have are symbiotic (the trees and the truffles help each other survive). We learned more about amazing, weird, and wonderful fungi during our mushroom dissection this week!