Turkish Hazel » Summer truffle

You want to grow summer truffles and are looking for the best plants for this production? Or perhaps you simply want to add new plants to your truffle orchard that will produce the famous St. John's Day truffle, harvested in the summer and appreciated for its fine and subtle aromas? Thanks to its excellent truffle-growing abilities, the Turkish hazelnut tree could well satisfy your needs and appear as the adequate truffle plant to support and increase the production of your truffle orchard !
 

A Turkish hazelnut tree capable of producing summer truffles

This Turkish hazel truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a Turkish hazel tree (Corylus colurna) with summer truffle spores (Tuber aestivum). The tree obtained is ready to be planted in your truffle field. It will produce its first truffles within 4 to 5 years.

In order to meet your expectations, our turkish hazel truffle plants, mycorhized with the summer truffle, are available in 4 sizes of cups:
- in anti-chignon® R430 cup of 0.43 liters
- in anti-chignon® R600 cup of 0.6 liters
- in anti-chignon® R1.5L cup of 1.5 liters
- in R3L container (volume of 3 liters)
  

Truffle potential of the Turkish hazelnut

The Byzantine or Turkish hazelnut tree (Corylus Colurna) is a natural producer of truffles. Hardy and vigorous, it adapts to all soils, but prefers dry ones. Although not very demanding, it is best to avoid planting it on land that is too deep and rich, which would encourage it to develop too quickly. It does not mind hot summers, nor cold winters and frost (down to -30°C). If in its natural state, it can be found in the mountains, in truffle growing, it should not be planted above 1400 meters of altitude and should be given a good exposure (full sun). Precocious, the Byzantine hazelnut tree can give its first summer truffles from the 4th or 5th year.
Compared to the common hazelnut tree, the Byzantine hazelnut tree has an advantage, but also a disadvantage:
- it is monocultured (it grows around a single trunk), which greatly reduces pruning work,
- on the other hand, its very hard-shelled nuts are of mediocre quality.
  

About the summer truffle (Tuber aestivum)

With its fine, subtle aromas, this variety of truffle knows how to conquer the palate of foodies. Called the summer truffle or St. John's truffle, Tuber aestivum grows naturally in many regions, starting with the south of France. It is also widespread in other countries such as Italy, Germany and Greece. Externally, the summer truffle looks like the black truffle. Its peridium is indeed black or brownish. On the inside, however, it offers shades of beige or brown with more or less yellow veins. The summer truffle is best eaten raw and sliced. Indeed, cooking tends to attenuate its fragrance.

The Robin hazel truffle plants

Our truffle hazel 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.