Sessile Oak » Black truffle

Do you want to grow Black truffles and are you looking for the most suitable plants for this production? Or perhaps you simply want to add to your truffle orchard new plants capable of producing this famous truffle appreciated for its gustatory flavors? Because of its excellent truffle-growing abilities, the sessile oak could be the ideal truffle plant for your truffle orchard! 
 

A sessile oak host to Black truffles

This sessile oak truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of a sessile oak tree (Quercus sessiliflora) 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 sessile oak 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)
  

Truffle-growing abilities of the sessile oak

Typical tree of European forests, the sessile oak (Quercus sessiliflora) proliferates in temperate regions. More resistant to drought than the pedunculate oak and not very sensitive to parasitic attacks and diseases, the sessile oak does not require intense light (it is a species of half-shade). This oak is very hardy as it can withstand very cold temperatures down to -25°C. It can be found up to 1600 meters of altitude. It grows in sandy, silty, clayey, more or less stony soils but it particularly appreciates filtering, thick, slightly acidic soils. Uncommon in the southern regions of France, the sessile oak can be used to produce Tuber uncinatum.
  

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 oaks truffle plants

Our truffle oaks 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.