Pubescent Oak » White truffle

Do you want to grow Italian white truffles and are you looking for the most suitable plants for this production? Or perhaps you simply want to add new plants to your truffle orchard that will produce the famous Alba truffle, whose incomparable fragrance is prized by the greatest chefs and by all gourmets? Thanks to its excellent truffle-growing abilities, the pubescent oak could well satisfy your needs and appear as the adequate truffle plant to support and increase the production of your truffle orchard!
 

A pubescent oak producing Italian white truffles

This pubescent oak truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a pubescent oak tree (Quercus pubescens) 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 pubescent oak truffle plants, mycorhized with the white truffle, are available in R430 anti-chignon® cups with a volume of 0.43 liters.
  

Truffle properties of the pubescent oak

Present in Southern Europe and the Middle East, the pubescent oak (Quercus pubescent) is also called "white oak". It owes its name to the fuzz that covers the underside of its leaves. This variety of oak grows especially in rich, drained soils and it supports very well the presence of limestone, which makes it an interesting species from a truffle point of view. A heliophilous tree (which likes light and sun), with a very long life span and very slow growth, the Pubescent Oak grows naturally in slightly humid, clayey, limestone-rich soils. It tolerates drought relatively well and can withstand frost down to -20°C, so that it can be found at altitudes of up to 1400 m. Because of its characteristics and its biotope, the pubescent oak favors the development of truffles by its side. It is one of the rare species that can live in symbiosis with the Italian 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.