Atlas Cedar » Black truffle

Are you planning to start producing black truffles soon, or simply to enrich your truffle field with new plants likely to increase your harvest of this famous "Black Diamond"? Because of its remarkable truffle-growing abilities, the Atlas cedar could be the ideal truffle plant to enhance your truffle orchard! 
 

An Atlas Cedar able to give black truffles

This atlas cedar truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of an Atlas Cedar tree (Cedrus atlantica) with Black truffle spores (Tuber melanosporum). 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 Atlas Cedar truffle plants, mycorhized with the black 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)
  

Atlas cedar truffle aptitude

The Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) is a remarkable forest species for its ability to produce truffles. Its evergreen foliage generates shade and humidity, so it is naturally predisposed to the cultivation of the Burgundy truffle, but it is also able to generate beautiful black truffles when its plants are spaced far enough apart to favor the sunshine of the soil. If it prefers clay-limestone soils, nutrient poor to moderately rich, it can adapt to irregular water conditions. It also tolerates snow and cold up to -25°C.
  

About the Black truffle (Tuber melanosporum)

A true "black diamond", Tuber melanosporum is as rare as it is sought after. It can be recognized by its rounded shape, sometimes bumpy, and its black flesh marbled with white. This truffle gives off an intense perfume and reveals fine aromas that make it an exceptional mushroom. Emblematic of French gastronomy, the black truffle can be eaten cooked or raw, as a seasoning or as an accompaniment to a dish. Black truffles are harvested from November to early March. Depending on the age of the plant and the land chosen, you will have to wait between 6 and 8 years to harvest your first black truffles.

The Robin cedar truffle plants

Our truffle cedar 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.