davidwhyte's Identifications

This species has quite yellow tones when young becoming more mustard with age. The fruitbodies are laterally attached with no obvious stipe. The cap surface is fibrous and the margin is scalloped. Fruit body size up to 4 cm in diameter and 2.8 cm in height. Growing on fallen log in remnant mature coastal broadleaf forest.

These were accidentally dug up from under a hazelnut tree as I was cleaning up suckers from around the base of the trees. To my knowledge my trees are not inoculated with truffle spores. There are 20 hazel trees in the orchard that are now 15years old there quite a few different varieties as this is needed for pollination. The trees have only ever been fertilised with dolomite lime. The soil around the trees is deep volcanic silt from the Tongariro river. They measure together approx 30mm x 30.5mm x 30mm and weighed 15gms. They were buried approx 100mm deep