Question

Is truffle an edible ascomycetes?

Answer 1

Truffles:

1. Truffles are Ascomycetes that are edible.
2. They looked like mushrooms.
3. Truffles are round balls that grow underground near the root of a large tree and consume nutrients from there.

Ascomycetes:

1. They are mostly multicellular fungi known as sac-fungi.
2. Septate and branched mycelium.
3. They could be decomposers, parasites, saprophytes, or coprophils.
4. Asexual spores are conidia that grow exogenously on a type of mycelium known as conidiophores.
5. Ascospores are sexual spores that form endogenously within sac-like asci.