Turkey Oak » White truffle

Are you tempted by the exciting adventure of white truffles? Would you like to start producing this famous Alba truffle, appreciated for its delicious taste? Are you looking for plants capable of producing this Tuber Magnatum? Thanks to its remarkable truffle-growing potential, the Turkey Oak could well be the ideal truffle plant for your truffle orchard!
 

A Turkey oak producing White truffles

This Turkey oak truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a Turkey oak tree (Quercus cerris) 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 8 years.

In order to meet your expectations, our Turkey oak truffle plants, mycorhized with the white 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-producing faculties of the Turkey oak

Sometimes also called Burgundy oak or hairy oak, the Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) is a species suitable for truffle farming. It is a fast-growing species and can be found in many countries of Central and Southern Europe. It is indeed adapted to many climates, even maritime ones, but rarely grows above 1400 m of altitude. It is however rustic and supports the cold until -25° C. It consents all types of soil, even poor provided that it is rich in limestone. It has a good tolerance to drought and is easy to maintain. Like all oaks, it likes the sun, but can also adapt well to a semi-shaded exposure. Excellent host of tuber uncinatum and aestivum, it can also produce beautiful black truffles as long as it benefits from sufficient sunlight/heating.
  

About the White truffle (Tuber Magnatum)

Tuber Magnatum is the rarest, but also the most famous (and therefore the most expensive) of truffles. It's known as the Alba white truffle (“tartufo bianco di Alba” in Italian), after the Piedmontese commune that based its reputation on this famous mushroom. The white truffle can be recognized by its smooth, white peridium. Inside, the mushroom's flesh is white and marbled. White truffles are renowned for their delicacy and intense, incomparable fragrance. This truffle is best 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.