Pubescent Oak » 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 during the summer season and appreciated for its fine and subtle aromas? Because of its remarkable truffle-growing abilities, the pubescent oak could be the ideal truffle plant for your truffle orchard!
 

A pubescent oak that can produce summer truffles

This pubescent oak truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a pubescent oak tree (Quercus pubescens) 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 6 to 7 years.

In order to meet your expectations, our pubescent oak 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 features 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 moreover the truffle oak that is regularly found in the Perigord or in the Vaucluse.
  

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 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.