Common hornbeam » 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 truffle plants capable of producing this Tuber Magnatum appreciated for its delicacy and its intense and incomparable perfumes? The common hornbeam is one of the rare host species that can produce the queen of truffles!  
 

A common hornbeam capable of producing white truffles

This common hornbeam truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a common hornbeam tree (Carpinus betulus) 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 common hornbeam truffle plants, mycorhized with the White truffle, are available in anti-chignon® R430 cup with a volume of 0.43 liters.
  

Truffle-growing abilities of common hornbeam

The common hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is one of the few forest species that can live in symbiosis with the Italian white truffle. Sometimes called hornbeam, it is a fairly common tree in the forests of Central Europe. This tree has all the qualities required for truffle cultivation: it grows relatively quickly, can withstand repeated and severe pruning, and is adapted to the different types of soil in Western Europe. Although it is very resistant to frosts and heat, it does not grow very high in the mountains (1000 m altitude maximum). Not very exigent on the nature of the soil, it prefers nevertheless the silty and fresh soils benefiting from a sunny or semi-shaded exposure.
  

About the white truffle of Alba (Tuber magnatum)

Tuber Magnatum, is the rarest but most famous (and therefore most expensive) of truffles. 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 truffles are known for their delicacy and their intense and incomparable perfume. This species of truffle is mainly eaten raw.

The Robin hornbeam truffle plants

Our truffle hornbeam 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.