Truffles: Their Underground Story: The Dragons Nest Photo Album. a Growers Guide to Underground Structures Related to Growing Tr, Paperback/MR Michael Hyson

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This is a Truffle growers guide to identifying the structures in the soil involved with the Truffle Fungus. This book includes over a hundred photographs. These photos involve the Truffle's World before Truffles mature before Truffle Hunters and Chefs become involved. It is the time when the earth is left in peace, undisturbed, when truffles are born and grow. Included in the Contents: Understanding Truffles..15 Size and scale of the roots in these Photo's..18 Mycorrhiza..26 Mycelium and Cistidae..34 Abscission nodes ..62 Stroma..66 Root divisions and Clusters..70 Where is the Truffle attached to the tree?..82 Truffle symbiotic or parasitic?..84 Colours of immature Truffles..88 Eruptions..96 A journal of the colour changes on a visible growing truffle ..98 The name and the colour..132 Truffles and frost events: .134 Other fungi..138 Surface Truffles..144 Physical Damage to Truffles..146 Damaged then Rotted Truffles..150 Southern Hemisphere Climate..156 Case studies of Truffles harvested too soon..158 Research (A number of interesting photographs of tiny growths of that are of other species associated with the truffle )..16About the Author: The Author: Michael Hyson has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand. He has had a diverse career during which he developed a love of photography. His albums cover diverse experiences. As a professional hunter, working on the North Sea Oil Rigs, as an Oil Field Service Engineer in the sands of the Lybian Sahara and for the last 25 years as a night time Post Courier Cargo Pilot, during which time a good number of photos were caught of his three children: Josianne, Nadja and Gregory growing up. His interest in Truffles has been for 20 years, With his own trees for the last 15. He has a fascination for the hidden world that produces Truffles and has combined that with his love of photography in this book.