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Truffle Cultivation

Truffles are mycorrhizal species, meaning that they exist in a symbiotic relationship with plants - usually trees. Without the host plant, there is no truffle. Thus, cultivation depends upon the development of a plantation of trees that truffles like. Typically the seedling tree roots are inoculated with truffles then planted. With proper management, truffles appear a few years later.

• Researchers in New Zealand have been developing an industry based upon the cultivation of some of these species in concert with small wood lots. The New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Ltd has created documents addressing different species:

  • Perigord Black Truffles (PDF - 624K)
  • Italian White Truffles (PDF - 467K)
  • Burgundy Truffles (PDF - 455K)
  
  
  
• For more information about black truffles, Tuber melanosporum, check out the Sainte Alvere website in the heart of France's Perigord Region.