The difference between the two is in shape, size, price, and range of origin.

The truffle and the matsutake mushroom are both precious and rare mushrooms, but the shapes and sizes are different. Matsutake mushrooms are large-headed strips and truffles are lumpy. Both are very worthwhile delicacies, the Japanese love matsutake mushrooms and Europeans prefer truffles. They are expensive, costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per kilogram, and truffles are even more expensive than matsutake mushrooms, with black truffles reaching more than 2,000 euros in Europe.

Their range of origin is very small, matsutake mushrooms originated mainly in China, truffles are mainly produced in France and Italy, the main production area in China is distributed in the Jinsha River basin. Both are suitable for fresh eating, and the freshness period of matsutake mushrooms is much shorter, only about three days. Truffles have a slightly longer shelf life.

The truffle is a kind of mushrooms in general, for the ascomycetes family Western truffle family Western truffle genus. Usually an annual fungus, most of the roots in the broad-leaved trees with silk growth, generally grown in pine trees, oak trees, oak trees. Truffle special odor, rich in protein, amino acids and other nutrients. Truffle on the growth of the environment is extremely demanding, and can not be cultivated, the production of scarce lead to its rare and expensive.

Matsutake mushroom, scientific name matsutake mushroom, also known as pine mushroom, combined mushroom, Taiwan mushroom. Belonging to the subphylum of aspergillus, the mushroom family, is the pine oak and other trees outside the mycorrhizal fungi, with a unique rich flavor, is the world's rare and valuable natural medicinal mushrooms, belongs to the second level of China's endangered species protection. Matsutake mushroom grows in the woodland with little nutrients and relatively dry, generally generated in the fall.