Aleppo Pine » Black truffle

You want to grow black truffles and are looking for the best plants for this production? Or perhaps you simply want to add new plants to your truffle orchard that will produce this famous "Black Diamond" with its inimitable flavor, the jewel of gastronomic meals? Because of its remarkable truffle-growing abilities, the Aleppo pine could be the ideal truffle plant for your truffle orchard ! 
 

An Aleppo pine able to produce black truffles

This Aleppo pine truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of an Aleppo pine tree (Pinus halepensis) 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 Aleppo pine 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)
  

Aleppo pine Truffle Aptitudes

The Aleppo pine (Pinus Halepensis), also commonly known as "White Pine" or "Pine of Provence", is very present in the French Mediterranean basin (and more widely in the whole western Mediterranean basin, in Europe, North Africa and the Near East). It is a tree species compatible with truffle growing. Particularly adapted to rocky, arid and calcareous soils, the Aleppo pine is moderately hardy: it does not tolerate temperatures below -10 °C, which explains why it is rarely found above 700 m altitude. It is therefore more at home in warm regions, especially since it is very resistant to drought. It accepts all dry, well-drained soils and appreciates clay-limestone soils. These various characteristics make it a host species for the black truffle.
  

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 pine truffle plants

Our truffle pine 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.