Species
Tuber gibbosum (Spring oregon white truffle)
Tuber gibbosum. Photo: (c) 2001 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Tuber gibbosum is a species of truffle in the genus Tuber. It is found in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, where it grows in an ectomycorrhizal association with Douglas-fir.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Ascomycota (Ascomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Pezizomycotina (Higher ascomycetes)
- Class: Pezizomycetes (Operculate ascomycetes)
- Order: Pezizales
- Family: Tuberaceae
- Genus: Tuber (Truffles)
- Species: Tuber gibbosum (Spring oregon white truffle)
- Genus: Tuber (Truffles)
- Family: Tuberaceae
- Order: Pezizales
- Class: Pezizomycetes (Operculate ascomycetes)
- Subphylum: Pezizomycotina (Higher ascomycetes)
- Phylum: Ascomycota (Ascomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)