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This page gives some information on the history of summer truffle in the United Kingdom.
Listed below are some of the ‘finds’ registered at Royal Botannical Gardens,Kew and the Association of British Fungal Groups. People who find truffle are generally reluctant to have their ‘finds’ recorded – thus this list will be far from exhaustive!
Truffle UK is very keen to maintain and up-date this list - with all information being shared with Kew.
Those who find truffle are asked to take a thin slice from their sample(s), drying them overnight on a piece of tissue/kitchen roll and then send them to Truffle UK in an envelope. The envelope should be marked with the date, site(not mandatory) and host tree species(if known). This sample will be examined under a microscope and its identity recorded. Our two most common truffle of value & culinary use are:
Tuber aestivum (var uncinatum): the English truffle is roundish in shaped covered with coarse polygonal warts, black in colour outside and brownish and veined with white within; its average size is about that of a small apple. It grows from July till autumn or winter; and prefers beech, oak and birch woods on argillaceous or calcareous soil and has sometimes been observed in pine woods. It grows gregariously, often in company with Tuber brumale and in France and Italy.
Tuber brumale: referred to above, grown in Britain. It is a winter truffle and is found chiefly under oaks and abele trees from October to December. It is black in colour, globose, more or less regular in shape and is covered with sharp polygonal warts: the mature flesh is blackish grey marbled with white veins. The odour is very strong and lasts a long time: the taste is generally esteemed agreeable.
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| 1800s |
Date |
Type |
Description |
18XX |
Tuber aestivum |
Alt(m): 90, Herefordshire |
1841/03 |
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Audley End, Essex |
1845/10 |
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Salisbury |
1847 |
Tuber aestivum |
North Wiltshire |
1847/09/10 |
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Bowood Wiltshire |
1847/10 |
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Holotype of T.bituminatum, unlocalised |
1847/10/01 |
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In deep sand, Bowood, Wiltshire |
| 1847/11/11 |
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Under Fagus, Rushmore Estate, Cranbourne Chase, Dorset |
1865/10/24 |
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Under fagus & Acer pseudoplatanus, Folkington |
1873 |
Tuber aestivum |
Herefordshire |
1873 |
Tuber aestivum |
Shropshire |
1881/12 |
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Stourhead, Somerset |
1873/10 |
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Under Quercus ilex, Spetchley Park, Hereford |
1888 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus sylvatica, beech woodland, Mid-West Yorkshire |
| 1900s |
Date |
Type |
Description |
19XX |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus sylvatica, root, Oxfordshire |
19XX |
Tuber aestivum |
Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire |
19XX |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus, ground, Oxfordshire |
19XX |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus, ground, Sussex |
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Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire |
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Under Fagus, Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Petersfield, Hampshire |
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Unlocalised |
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Under Fagus, Vaynol Park, Bangor, Gwynedd |
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Worcester |
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Nibley 2 nd Wood, Wootton under Edge |
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Under Fagus, Orchardleigh Park, Frome, Somerset |
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Shoreham on Sea |
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Under Quercus ilex, Seacourt, Dover, Kent |
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Chichester |
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Under Fagus, Folly Wood, Dursley, Gloucestershire |
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Under Fagas, Folly Wood, Dursley, Gloucestershire |
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Bowood, Wiltshire |
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Tuber aestivum |
Vaynol Park, Caernarvonshire, Wales |
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Under Fagus, Chatsworth, Derby |
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Herefordshire, Herford & Worcester |
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Under Fagus, Ilex, Quercus ilex, Banner Downs, Batheaston, Somerset |
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As var. bituminosum, under Betula, Bath, Somerset |
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Brighton |
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Under Fagus, Folly Wood, Dursley, Gloucestershire |
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Covent Garden, London
Chinnor Hill Reserve, Oxford |
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Rathurles, Nr Nenagh, Tipperary |
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Clifton Reynes, Olney |
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Castle Howard, North Yorkshire |
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Under Fagus, Greystoke Castle |
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Under Fagus, Folly Wood, Dursley, Gloucestershire |
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Tuber aestivum |
Phillis Wood, West Sussex |
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Tuber aestivum |
Norbury Park, Surrey |
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Tuber aestivum |
Chinnor Hill, Oxfordshire |
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Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus sylvatica, litter, leaf |
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Nr Sarrat, Hertfordshire
Audley End, Essex |
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Tuber aestivum |
Under Carpinus betulus, soil, compost, old, woodland, Mid-West Yorkshire |
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Headingly, Leeds |
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Howe Combe, Watlington |
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Tuber aestivum |
Alt(m): 90, On/with Corylus avellana, soil, broad-leaved plantation, disturbed by squirrels in cob nut orchard, thought to be in RBG Kew, J Pitt was contacted by Mrs Howell, Kent |
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With Quercus, Four Forks, Bridgewater, Somerset |
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Tuber aestivum |
Under Corylus avellana (as hazel), Orpington, Kent |
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Under fir & Betula, Ashtead, Surrey |
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Under Fagus, Greystoke, Penryth, Cumbria |
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Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus, soil (hypogeous), beechwoods on chalk soil, Surrey |
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Tuber aestivum |
Under Capsella bursa-paastoris, North-East Yorkshire |
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Tuber aestivum |
Castle Howard, Yorkshire |
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Under Carpinus, Crataegus, Ilex, Leeds |
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Tuber aestivum |
Warwickshire |
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Folly Wood, Dursely, Stroud, Gloucestershire |
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Tuber aestivum |
Stinchcombe Woods, Gloucestershire |
1985/08/17 |
Tuber aestivum |
Dursely, Gloucestershire |
1985/08/18 |
Tuber aestivum |
Twinbarrow Woods, Wootton under Edge, Gloucestershire |
1985/08/19 |
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Under Beech & Sycamore, Folkington, Sussex |
1985/08/19 |
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Goring on Sea |
1985/10/02 |
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Under Beech avenue, Rushmore Estate, Cranborne, Dorset |
1985/10/04 |
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With Fagus, unlocalised |
1985/10/06 |
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Under Fagus, between Arundel & Patching, Sussex |
1985/10/08 |
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Audley End,Essex |
1985/10/13 |
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Under Beech, 1 Harrington Road, Dorchester, Dorset |
1985/10/14 |
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Under Fagus, Ilex, Quercus ilex, Banner Downs, Batheaston, Avon |
1985/10/20 |
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Under Ilex, Longniddy |
1985/10/21 |
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Under Carpinus Betulus, Leeds University Experimental Garden, Headingley, Leeds |
1985/10/21 |
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Under Quercus ilex, St Boniface, Ventnor, Isle of Wight |
1985/10/21 |
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In hedge under Ilex, Crataegus, Acer pseudoplatanus, Nr Leeds |
1986/10/13 |
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Under Holm Oak, Seacourt, St Margarets, Dover, Kent |
1986/10/13 |
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Sevenoaks |
1987/01/05 |
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Unlocalised, |
1988/07/14 |
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Under betula, Ashtead, Surrey |
1988/07/14 |
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Chipstead Valley, Banstead |
1989 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Quercus ilex, soil, under quercus ilex, down steep faci, Hampshire |
1989/06/12 |
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Bedales, Petersfield, Hampshire |
1993 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus sylvatica, soil, woodland broadleaf, West Gloucestershire |
1995 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Betula, soil among roots, garden, Surrey |
1995/06/09 |
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Under Betula, Surrey |
1996 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Quercus, South Hampshire |
1997 |
Tuber aestivum |
Alt(m): 150, On/with Fagus sylvatica, soil grassy, domestic, built up, North Wiltshire |
1997 |
Tuber aestivum |
Alt(m): 200, on/with Fagus sylvatica, soil grassy, domestic, built up, West Gloucestershire |
1998 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus (as Fagus / Betula), soil, garden lawn, North Somerset |
1998 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus, chalk soil, garden, Kent |
1998 |
Tuber aestivum |
Soil, Hertfordshire |
1998 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Quercus, leaf litter, broad-leaved semi-natural woodland, found inmixed Quercus, Fagus, Acer and Corylus woodland, Hampshire |
1998/02/23 |
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Under Fagus, High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Somerset |
1998/06/31 |
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Under beech, Kingston, Canterbury, Kent |
1998/11 |
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Nr Flaunden, Hertfordshire |
1999 |
Tuber aestivum |
Soil, woodland garden, Wiltshire |
1999 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Fagus sylvatica, soil (under trees), woodland, beechwood on calcareous s, North Wiltshire |
1999/05 |
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Under Fagus, Chippenham, Wiltshire |
1999/10 |
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Under Fagus Sylvatica, Devizes, North Wiltshire |
| 2000s |
Date |
Type |
Description |
2000 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Ilex, in bare soil, garden, on chalk, Kent |
2000/10/02 |
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Walmer, Deal, Kent |
2000 |
Tuber aestivum |
Alt(m): 22, On/with Fagus sylvatica, soil, garden, found on surface of soil having been dug up by squirrel in Peter Smith's garden, Nottinghamshire |
2002 |
Tuber aestivum |
Under Quercus, soil, Hertfordshire |
2002/07/10 |
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Under Oak, Sherrards Park Wood, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire |
2003/08/21 |
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Under Carpinus Betula, Meldreth, Cambridgeshire |
2004/07 |
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Under beech/hornbeam, Bedfordshire |
09/2004 |
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Under Beech, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire |
05/2005 |
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Under Quercus Ilex, Weston Super Mare, Somerset |
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