#  New species of truffle discovered 

 





June 24, 2016

 

 

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Roseanne Healy, former postdoctoral fellow with the [Pfister Lab](http://pfistergroup.oeb.harvard.edu/), and colleagues recently published a paper about the discovery of a new North American species of truffle, *Tuber arnoldianum,* named in honor of Harvard's [Arnold Arboretum](http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/).

Read about it in *The Boston Globe* [here](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/24/researchers-discovered-new-species-truffle-arboretum-but-they-didn-taste/C2JCzTHw9otFiRY4M0tt6N/story.html).

Read the paper in *Mycorrhiza* [here](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00572-016-0713-4).



 

 

 



 

 

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