Our
first Périgord Black Truffle
was found 18years after planting it was a long wait with a lot of
work over the years with tree maintenance
and soil modification to suit growing Tuber melanosporum (Périgord Black Truffle
). Realistically we excepted to achieve a commercial crop
around the 10th year.
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Périgord Black Truffle - Tuber melanosporum due to the number of well-established Truffières now producing Périgord Black Truffle the local Périgord Black Truffle market is
well catered
for. Exporting is being tried but certainly has been a challenge with
limitations being in the Southern Hemisphere.
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White Truffle - Tuber borchii or Bianchetto - this
variety has not yet reached saturation point, has good value and would be
worth consideration.
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Burgundy Truffle - Tuber aestivum (Summer Truffle) - this
Varity hasn’t reached saturation, produces excellent yields off a small
number of trees and the easiest to produce, but doesn’t have great value.
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Brumale Truffle
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ended up in NZ mistaken as Périgord inoculation and a large number of
trees were inadvertently inoculated with this inferior truffle and sold as
Périgord Black Truffle seedlings. This truffle has little value but
because of its similarity to Périgord and harvested over the same period some
un expecting consumers have purchased this truffle thinking it to be the
much sought after Périgord Black Truffle. To my knowledge no seedlings
are inoculated with the Brumale fungi.
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