Paul Miros of Woodford Truffles with his dog Baccio, who found a Black Winter Perigord truffle near Ceres, South Africa
Image: Rodger Bosch / AFP
Only shrubs grew naturally in the sandy acid soil that farmer Volker Miros chose as a site to test the potential for truffle production in South Africa. Â
The determined mycophile saw no reason why the highly prized fungi could not grow on the plateaus of South Africa's rugged Cederberg mountains in the west of the country, where the climate is similar to that of Mediterranean Europe.