Black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) contains a “bliss molecule” similar to the substance that gives cannabis its psychoactive properties.
"Maccarrone believes truffles use it to attract animals to eat their fruiting bodies, so that their spores are spread more widely and they have a better chance of reproducing."
BBC Earth: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141221-truffles-contain-bliss-molecule
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