| Tuber melanosporum | |
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| Fruiting body of Tuber melanosporum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Tuberaceae |
| Genus: | Tuber |
| Species: | T. melanosporum
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| Binomial name | |
| Tuber melanosporum Vittad. 1831
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Tuber melanosporum | |
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 | Glebal hymenium |
 | Hymenium attachment is not applicable |
| Lacks a stipe |
 | Ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | Edibility is choice |
Tuber melanosporum, called the black truffle, Périgord truffle or French black truffle,[1] is a species of truffle native to Southern Europe. It is one of the most expensive edible fungi in the world. In 2013, the truffle cost between 1,000 and 2,000 euros per kilogram.
- ^ There are several common names for the species in the popular literature. For example, the Field Guide to North American Truffles (Trappe, Evans & Trappe, 2007) refers to it as the "French black"; Taming the Truffle (Hall, Brown, Zambonelli, 2007) calls it the "black Périgord truffle" (but lists it under the scientific name in the index); The Book of Fungi (Roberts & Evans, 2011) calls it the "black truffle"; and the European field guide Mushrooms (Laessoe & Lincoff, 2002) calls it simply the "Perigord truffle."