Learn about the most famous types of truffles in Saudi Arabia

ArabiaWeather.com- is a type of wild truffle fungus that grows in the form of tubers vary in size and are similar to "potato tubers", and shows after heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms season. It begins in January and continues until the end of February.

People are looking for truffles to take advantage of its high nutritional value, as there are several types of it; It is large and small, white and black, and truffles grow in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, in Egypt and the Maghreb, and in some European countries, and the types of truffles are four:

The first : Al-Zubaidi (the most famous) is white in color with a distinctive smell and is large in size.

Second : Hopper: It is black in color and small in size.

The third: Al-Muhalasi, which is considered the harshest type of falafah and its taste is the finest and best.

Fourth: Al-Jebah: It is considered one of the worst types that disintegrates quickly and the first type to appear from the “faqa”.

The Saudi popular memory is not devoid of sayings and proverbs related to faqaa and its types, and among the most famous of these statements are “Al-Zeibidi by Al-Walidy and Al-Khilasi Qanad Rasi.”