MUSHROOMS

HOST TREES

HOST TREE AGES (years)

SOIL

SOIL ANALYSIS NEEDED?

ALTITUDE

TECHNOLOGIES USED

ESTIMATED CROP

(Kg/Ha/year)

VALUE

(€/ha/year

Seedlings* + Time to production

Mycoforest technology**

Lactarius deliciosus (saffron milk cap)

Any specie

of Pines

2-30 Any kind,

but prefers

acidic soils

(pH<7)

NO 0-1500 YES,

3-6 years

YES 240 960

Suillus sp

Any specie

of Pines

2-30 Any kind NO 0-1500 YES,

3-4 years

YES 600 900

Boletus edulis (porcini)

Pine, fir,

spruce, oak,

beech,

chestnut,

betula.

30-90, best

50-70

Acid soils

(pH<6)

Just pH 0-1500 NO YES 50 300

Tuber melanosporum (Black truffle)

Evergreen

oak, oak,

hazel

5-50 Limy soils

(ph

between

7.5-8.5)

YES, Full

analysis

600-

1200

YES,

6-8 years

YES, Just

for hazels

30 15000

Tuber borchii (bianchetto)

Pine, oak,

hazel

5-50 sandy

soils,

pH from

6,5-8,5

YES, Full

analysis

0-1100 YES

4-7 years

YES, But

still

experimen

tal

20 8000

*From seedlings (one year old trees from nursery) **Mycoforest Technology (to infect adult trees, directly in forests). We consider that all mushrooms fruit two years after the inoculations.