Characteristics and harvest


The white truffle, Tuber Magnatum Pico, is certainly the most prized. Its shape is irregular and flattened. The main color tends to yellow and the spots are burnished.

The cost of a white truffle fluctuates around 450 euros, for a specimen of about 100 grams.

The white truffle is not cultivable: you have to be very good at finding it.

It prefers a wooded environment particularly rich in humus: it grows in particular symbiosis with oaks, holm oaks, willows and poplars, whose growing medium has high amounts of calcium and a constant humidity rate for most of the year.

The marly-calcareous and marly clayey soils are those preferred by the white truffle

In Piedmont, the white truffle harvest period begins on September 21st (the first day of autumn) and ends on January 31st. The white truffle reaches maximum ripeness from September to the end of December. Other species of truffles can also be found in other seasons of the year.
Growing underground, the truffle is a difficult-to-find mushroom: for its research, suitably trained dogs are used, which rediscover its traces thanks to its characteristic penetrating and persistent scent.