. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 712. Truffle huntinE (above) with a dog in tlie garigues of southern France. Truffle hunting (below) with a pig in an "orchard" of oaks, southern France. Fig. 713. A broken tuckahoe. llucli reduced. detected, although subterranean. They occur in lime-containing, sandy soils, mostly in the flood plains of small streams. The production of these fungi is very evidently dependent on sufficient winter rainfall, or inundations at some time in the winter months. Tiiekakoe. (Indian Bread, Indian Loaf. Okeepe- nauk of the early India
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 712. Truffle huntinE (above) with a dog in tlie garigues of southern France. Truffle hunting (below) with a pig in an "orchard" of oaks, southern France. Fig. 713. A broken tuckahoe. llucli reduced. detected, although subterranean. They occur in lime-containing, sandy soils, mostly in the flood plains of small streams. The production of these fungi is very evidently dependent on sufficient winter rainfall, or inundations at some time in the winter months. Tiiekakoe. (Indian Bread, Indian Loaf. Okeepe- nauk of the early Indians.) Fig. 713. The American tuckahoe is now considered to be inedible. It is unquestionably the sclerotial stage of some fungus, very probably of a pore-bearing mushroom (supposedly of a Polyporus). The form and size of this sclerotium is not unlike a coco- nut. The is also rough and bark-like. The interior, however, when mature, is hard, white and friable. The tuckahcje has been found in various parts of the South and Southwest. It has received tentatively the name Paclu/ma cocas. Among other pore-bearing mushrooms which may produce a somewhat similar sclerotial stage, one of the most interesting is Polyporus Mi/littce. The sclerotium of this fungus is known as " Native Bread," and is said to be eaten by the native in- habitants. P. Sapurema, found in Brazil, produces a sclerotium weighing many kilos. In Italy, P. tnherastcr, produces a sclerotial mass of mycelium. This mass will produce the edible sporophores of the Polyporus until the stored-up nutriment is ex- hausted. The sclerotial mass is therefore sought in the open and brought in, so that none of the mushrooms may be lost as produced. No form of tuckahoe or allied structure is cultivated so far as can be ascertained. Literature on mushrooms. Atkinson, Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., first edition, Andrus and Church, Ithaca, N. Y. (1901); second edition, Henry Holt & Co., New York City (
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