newbie, have never seen one of these

[cozameleg]

Hi everyone

We came across this today while walking the dog. There were two lots of 6-7 of these growing in clusters in leafmould under trees. They do not appear to have a stem (probably the wrong word!) and they are very hard and black in the middle. They smell earthy. The photo shows them up quite well.

Any ideas?

Maureen

[crowsashes]

i can saftly say thats a deer truffle

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/elaph ... granulatus for a bit more about them :-)

dont know anythingt other than that