It's true, the truffle is still chicer! If it's so easy to grow oyster mushrooms, why not other Amazonian Mushrooms? Many of you ask us the question.

In reality, to make a truffle, you need… a tree that is at least 10 years old and a specific region. The kind of trick is not super obvious to send you by mail. In fact, there are as many similarities between a truffle and an oyster mushroom as between a whale and a mangrove shrimp.

The oyster mushroom eats wood: it can therefore grow... wherever there are wood and undergrowth conditions in autumn.

The truffle is a mushroom that connects to a tree. The truffle exchanges with the tree: the tree provides it with carbon, and the truffle with elements of the soil, the whole makes a symbiosis .

In addition, the truffle is delicate, it only connects to certain tree species.

For chanterelles, I think it's somewhat the same principle: to grow chanterelles, you need…a forest. If you want to try to have chanterelles in your garden, you can try to put pieces of chanterelles around a large beech or pine. If it doesn't get chewed up by slugs, the piece of chanterelle might develop mycelium, connect to the tree, and then fruit into beautiful mushrooms. There are many attempts to cultivate chanterelles because they tend to be rare in Europe, but for the moment it does not work very well.