The Black truffle (Tuber Me­lanosporum) is a del­i­catessen some­times called "the black di­a­mond" for its inim­itable flavour and also for its price.Vit­ta­dini de­scribed the Tuber Me­lanosporum in 1831, from the Greek me­lanos = black and spora = spore, me­lanosporum = with black spores

The lot of forest host species can live in sym­biosis with the black truffle, such as the truffle oaks and the truffle hazel trees. On the ma­jority of parcels we have ob­served more fre­quent ap­pear­ance of 'brulés (burned area) very marked and spec­tac­ular.

Known since An­tiq­uity, in France it still re­mainds the essen­tial jewel of Christmas and New Year's meals as well as gourmet menus.

The Quality of truffle plants:

As men­tioned in the truffle plants sec­tion, this is a highest quality plants pro­duced in the France nursery via tech­niques, de­vel­opped within the ISO 9001 stan­dard and li­censed by France National Institute for Agronomic Research.

My­c­or­rhized truffle plants with the black truffle are avail­able in con­tainers of 4 dif­ferent sizes:

•  R 430 cm3
•  R 600 cm3
•  R 1.5 l
•  R 3 l

Host species avail­able for the My­c­or­rhized truffle plants with the black truffle :

The 2 host truffle tree species that are the most used and known are the truffle oaks and the hazel nut truffle trees. Beside these two species, we of­fers other host species in order to be best adapted to the dif­ferent con­di­tions. Below is a list of all the host species of­fered for the my­c­chorized truffle plants with the black truffle:

• CE­DRUS at­lantica – Atlas Cedar
• CARPINUS be­tulus – Common Horn­beam
• QUERCUS coc­cifera – Kermes Oak
• QUERCUS ilex – Ev­er­green Oak
• QUERCUS pubescens – White Oak
• QUERCUS robur – Pe­doncular Oak
• CISTUS al­bidus – Cistus Snow­fire
• CO­RYLUS avel­lana – Common Hazel
• CO­RYLUS colurna – Turkish Hazel
• PINUS halepensis – Alepo Pine
• PINUS nigra aus­triaca – Aus­trian Black Pine
• TILIA cor­data – Lime - small leaved

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