Truffle Collection

Black truffle, Tuber melanosporum (Tuber cibarium, Tartufo commestibile, Lycoperdon tuber). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

Truffle Hunting Dogs 19C
Truffle hunting in Perigord (France) using dogs. Samples of truffles in corner of picture

Edible mushroom and fungi varieties. Including truffle, sickener, weeping milkcap, saffron milkcap, golden chanterelle, elfin sadde, Caesars mushroom, coral mushroom and morel. Lithograph by J.H

Hunting for truffle, Perigord, France, Victorian period

Fossils of extinct marine creatures
Fossil of extinct demosponge Verticillites 1, Rubula soldanii 2, and Nubecularia lucifuga 3. Verticillite crecateo d Ellis, Rubula del Soldani, Nubecularia lucifuga

Bulgar and truffle mushrooms
Black bulgar, Bulgaria inquinans, candlestick fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon, Elaphomyces muricatus (Elaphomyces variegatus), black truffle, Tuber melanosporum, and summer truffle, Tuber aestivum

Truffle, Tuber melanosporum, mushroom species, and tree moss, Muscus arborum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Edible mushrooms, Cryptogames alimentaires. Field mushroom, Agaricus campestris, chanterelle, Cantharellus cibarius, king bolete, Boletus edulis, morel, Morchella esculenta, white truffle

Truffle, morel, and coral mushrooms
Sclerotium semen 1, Thanotophytum crocorum 2, truffle, Tuber cibarium 3, coral mushroom, Clavulina coralloides 4, Clavulina amethystina 5, Ramaria botrytis 6, Clavariadelphus pistillaris 7

Curtis British Entomology Plate 251
Coleoptera: Leiodes cinnamomea (Truffle Beetle) [Plant: Tuber, cf. aestivum (Tuber cibarium = Lycoperdon tuber, Truffle)] Date: 1824-39

TRUFFLE HUNTING PIG 1939
A man with his truffle-hunting pig. He digs with a spade where the pig has found truffles - the hardest part is stopping the pig eating them before he can dig them up! Date: 1939

Atelettes -- food on decorative skewers, including shellfish, vegetables, crystallised fruit, truffles and jelly. circa 1890

Truffle varieties, Tuber aestivum, and jelly babies, Leotia lubrica.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Truffle, Tuber aestivum 1, red truffle, Melanogaster variegatus 2, and olive earth-tongue 3.. Truffle, Tuber aestivum 1, red truffle, Melanogaster variegatus 2, and olive earth-tongue

Martel, France - Preparation of Truffles
Martel in the Lot department in south-western France - preparation of Truffles. Date: circa 1910s

A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, France
A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, Lot, France. The fruits of their sniffing, snuffling and truffling labours can be seen in the basket on the right. Date: circa 1908

Truffle Hunting Pig 19C
A man with his truffle-hunting pig. Date: 19th century

Truffle hunting
A man and boy accompanied by four small dogs, hunt for truffles in a forest. Truffles, a fungus that grows in symbiosis with certain trees, and a culinary delicacy

Truffle Hunt Pig 1929
An Italian farmer and his truffle-hunting pig

Truffles Liebig 6
Truffles are found also in North Africa : in Tunisia, Berber truffle-hunters bring their goods to market on the backs of camels. card 6 of 6

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