How and where the truffle grows?
Truffles have been traced up to a maximum of 1 meter underground. However we can find the fruiting bodies of this mushroom even just a few centimeters below our feet.
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Unfortunately, yes, as science teaches us. Due to the increase in global temperature, 2 or 3 degrees more than now by 2100. This may considerably disadvantage the appearance of this famous mushroom in our forests, in fact it is expected that the European production of truffles will decrease between 78 and 100% between 2071 and 2100. The one most at risk would be the black truffle, destined to disappear by the end of our century, according to studies.
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It is a particularly productive soil of truffles. There are natural, controlled and cultivated ones. The first are those known by truffle hunters, which they would not reveal to anyone. The controlled ones instead are those in which the man works to promote the birth of truffles by planting at least 30 mycorrhizated plants. Finally, the cultivated truffle grounds are called so when the plants are at least 100 and therefore there is more intervention by the man as they are created specifically for the cultivation of truffles. In the controlled and cultivated “tartufaie”, only the owners can access them to collect truffles and do not have the obligation to have the license.
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Yes, in cultivated truffle grounds, and this process is called “tartuficoltura”. But it’s no picnic: you have to find the right ground, with the right components, and then there must be the right climatic conditions and the spores must establish the correct symbiosis with the host plant. There is still an aura of mystery on the cultivation of this mushroom. The cultivation of white truffles has given little results and for this reason it still remains the most precious truffle, because it is impossible to cultivate it. Moreover, you have to wait 7-10 years before you can collect the first truffles from a cultivated truffle.
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