The first cultivated truffle in Scandinavia produced on Gotland

• On the 29th of November 2005 the Swedish-trained truffle dog Biscuit found the first cultivated truffle in Scandinavia on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The truffle orchard at Mulde, Fröjel parish, is one of ten orchards established on Gotland in 1999 by the Swedish truffle research project in cooperation between Gotland University and Uppsala University. Each orchard harbours 12 oak seedlings (Quercus robur) and 12 hazel seedlings (Corylus avellana) inoculated with the Burgundy truffle Tuber aestivum syn. T. uncinatum by the French truffle nurseries Agri-truffe and Robin pépinères. The truffle was found a few centimetres below the earth surface, 20 centimetres from the trunk of an oak tree. It had mature spores and weighed 15 g. The finding of the first cultivated truffle six years after planting the orchard is comparable with French results and promising for the future establishment of new oak and hazel biotopes for truffle cultivation in Scandinavia.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Tuber aestivum

truffle

truffle orchard

truffle production

Gotland

Quercus robur

Corylus avellana

truffle dog

Biology

Biologi

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