Pedunculate Oak » White truffle

Are you interested in the exciting adventure of the Alba white truffle? Do you want to start producing the rarest and most expensive of truffles? Are you looking for plants capable of producing this Tuber Magnatum appreciated for its delicacy and its intense and incomparable perfumes? The pedunculate oak is one of the rare host species capable of producing the queen of truffles!
 

A pedunculate oak capable of producing white truffles

This pedunculate oak truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a pedunculate oak tree (Quercus pedonculata) with white truffle spores (Tuber magnatum). The tree obtained is ready to be planted in your truffle field. It will produce its first truffles within 5 to 6 years.

Our pedunculate oak truffle plants, mycorhized with the white truffle, are available in anti-chignon® R430 cup with a volume of 0.43 liters.
  

Truffle growing ability of pedunculate oak

The pedunculate oak (Quercus pedonculata) is very present in the plains of all France (except the Mediterranean), Switzerland and Belgium. It thrives in fairly moderate and humid continental climates. Not very demanding, it prefers fresh and deep soils that remain humid all year long. However, the pedunculate oak needs warm summers. It tolerates drought as long as it is not excessively prolonged. Moreover, if it is moderately sensitive to winter cold, it fears late spring frosts, which explains why it is rarely found above 1300 m altitude. It is a heliophile species, which seeks full light. Its growth is slow in its youngest age then becomes more sustained. It should be noted that the pedunculate oak is one of the few forest species that can live in symbiosis with the white truffle.
  

About the white truffle (Tuber magnatum)

Tuber Magnatum, is the rarest, but also the most famous (and therefore the most expensive) truffle. It is called white truffle of Alba ("tartufo bianco di Alba" in Italian), from the name of a town in Piedmont that has based its reputation on this famous mushroom. The white truffle can be recognized by its white and smooth peridium. Inside, the flesh of the mushroom is white and marbled. The white truffle is known for its delicacy and its intense and incomparable perfumes. This species of truffle is mainly eaten raw.

The Robin oaks truffle plants

Our truffle oaks plants are produced in our laboratories under the control and license of INRAE. These plants are then pampered for many months in our nurseries. Quality plants, carefully selected, it is the guarantee to obtain a good yield after only a few years.

The plants raised in ROBIN ANTI-CHIGNON® buckets are subject to a guarantee of recovery in the event of failure to recover more than 20% of the plants delivered. Under this guarantee, the seller undertakes to replace free of charge the defective plants during the season following the actual observation by the seller of the defective delivered plants.