mmm grow your own!

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Luxurious white truffles could grow in British forests | Daily Mail Online

Luxurious white truffles could grow in British forests as French scientists make breakthrough that would free the £2,500-a-lb delicacies from just their Italian homelands

• The fungus is frequently described as being the finest available on the planet
• Chalky, wet regions ideal for them to develop, which suits areas of UK and US
• Saplings brought to Britain in the hope of producing them within next 10 years

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Apparently the reason they are so hard, well so far practically impossible, to cultivate artificially is that each plant is one of dozens of possible sexes, most of which do their utmost to kill their neighbours as soon as their underground tendrils come into contact!