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The truffle: don’t miss its season

Some truffles are hard to find and you shouldn’t miss the season if you like to go and find them yourself. For the Périgord black truffle, its maturity period is between December 1 and mid-March. Harvest: from mid-November to the end of March, with a full season after the holidays, from mid-January to the end of March. The so-called “musky” truffle (tuber brumale) is sometimes confused with tuber melanosporum. Its season is very dense: from May 1 to September 30. The Tuber brumale or black winter truffle or musky truffle has the same characteristics as the black truffle or Tuber melanosporum. The price per kilo of the extra truffle, which has a regular shape and which is the one we sell on laumontshop.fr, is generally sold at around 1,500 € / kg. Then we have the first quality, an irregular shape, which would be around 1,200 € / kg. All species of truffles are mainly found in the woods, most notably under oaks, black pines, lime trees, hazelnuts and black thorn hedges at the edge of fields / forests. Namely that it is in the very limestone soils that we find the Périgord Truffle ..