Austrian Pine » Black truffle

Are you planning to start producing black truffles soon, or simply to enrich your truffle orchard with new plants likely to increase your Tuber melanosporum harvest? Thanks to its excellent truffle-growing abilities, the Austrian black pine could well satisfy your needs and appear as the adequate truffle plant to support and increase the production of your truffle orchard ! 
 

An Austrian black pine suitable for black truffles growing

This Austrian black pine truffle plant is obtained after controlled and certified mycorrhization of an Austrian black pine (Pinus Nigra Austriaca) 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 Austrian black 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)
  

Austrian black pine truffle capabilities

Present almost everywhere in Europe, the Austrian black pine (Pinus nigra austriaca) adapts to almost all climatic conditions: it resists to cold winters (up to -30°C), tolerates perfectly hot summers and can be satisfied with low water supply. This explains why it can be found on the seaside, in the plains or in the mountains (up to 1700 m). Robust and fast growing, the Austrian black pine is also a very good producer of Burgundy truffles (its natural biotope being very close to that of Tuber uncinatum) while being able to give beautiful black truffles after mycorrhization by Tuber melanosporum. As for exposure, it fully appreciates the sun and tolerates half-shade. Not very demanding in terms of soil conditions, it nevertheless prefers clay-limestone to limestone areas.
  

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.