This reminds me of an article I just read last week in our local weekly.
Apparently two counties in North Carolina are the only place in North
America where black truffles have been succesfully cultivated. The
pricey fungus is introduced by inoculating the roots of young hazelnut
seedlings.
http://indyweek.com/durham/2004-03-17/dish2.html
It apparently took ten years for the first harvestable fungus to show
up, so you'd have to be even more patient than the average orchardist.
But the payoff is excellent in many ways.
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