Basswood » Summer truffle

Are you planning to start producing summer truffles soon, or simply to enrich your truffle orchard with new plants likely to reinforce your Tuber aestivum harvest? Thanks to its remarkable truffle-growing abilities, the basswood could be the ideal truffle plant to enhance your truffle orchard ! 
 

A basswood producing summer truffles

This basswood truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a basswood tree (Tilia cordata) with summer truffle spores (Tuber aestivum). The tree obtained is ready to be planted in your truffle field. It will produce its first truffles within 6 to 7 years.

In order to meet your expectations, our basswood truffle plants, mycorhized with the summer truffle, are available in 4 sizes of cups:
- in anti-chignon® R430 cup of 0.43 liters
- in anti-chignon® R600 cup of 0.6 liters
- in anti-chignon® R1.5L cup of 1.5 liters
- in R3L container (volume of 3 liters)
  

Truffle-growing abilities of the basswood tree

Reputed for the antispasmodic, calming, sudorific and diuretic virtues of its flowers, the basswood tree is nonetheless a host forest species that can live in symbiosis with the summer truffle. The small-leaved basswood tree (Tilia cordata) combines several characteristics that make it a very good truffle producer: It is not very sensitive to drought and is very resistant to winter frost. It is equally at home on the plains and in the mountains (up to 1400 m). Its moderate growth rate reduces the frequency of pruning, which it tolerates very well. Not very demanding in terms of soil, it likes the sun but is equally at ease in semi-shaded areas.
  

About the summer truffle (Tuber aestivum)

With its fine, subtle aromas, this variety of truffle knows how to conquer the palate of foodies. Called the summer truffle or St. John's truffle, Tuber aestivum grows naturally in many regions, starting with the south of France. It is also widespread in other countries such as Italy, Germany and Greece. Externally, the summer truffle looks like the black truffle. Its peridium is indeed black or brownish. On the inside, however, it offers shades of beige or brown with more or less yellow veins. The summer truffle is best eaten raw and sliced. Indeed, cooking tends to attenuate its fragrance.

The Robin basswood truffle plants

Our truffle basswood plants are produced in our laboratories under the control and license of INRAE. These plants are then pampered for many months in our nurseries. Quality plants, carefully selected, it is the guarantee to obtain a good yield after only a few years.

The plants raised in ROBIN ANTI-CHIGNON® buckets are subject to a guarantee of recovery in the event of failure to recover more than 20% of the plants delivered. Under this guarantee, the seller undertakes to replace free of charge the defective plants during the season following the actual observation by the seller of the defective delivered plants.