Azienda Agroambientale Cassinazza di Baselica

Mushrooms at La Cassinazza

In the intensive agricultural landscape that formerly defined La Cassinazza before habitat restoration efforts began, mushrooms were completely absent.
They remained absent for several years even after the new hedgerows and woodlots were planted.
We had to wait until autumn 2003 for the sudden, plentiful emergence of our first mushroom species: Leccinium duriusculum, which lives in symbiosis with White Poplars.
Numerous other species appeared gradually over the following years, drawing our attention and stimulating our curiosity about their identification. We also began building a photographic archives, since mushrooms are not only pretty subjects, they also have the welcome quality of immobility and are thus much easier to photograph than birds.

Once again, we do not aim to identify and list all of the species that have appeared. This is a job for a specialist.
We are quite happy to just keep an image archive, identifying them when we are able to. We do not try to be complete, but rather want to illustrate the most conspicuous species of mushrooms we have come across during our surveys at La Cassinazza.

Below we present the images of the mushroom species we have been able to identify, albeit with a certain degree of uncertainty.
In a separate page we present the images of unidentified mushrooms, which we could not put a name to due to our limited experience.

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*Agaricus arvensis*
*Agaricus bisporus*
*Agrocybe cylindracea*
*Agrocybe praecox*
*Amanita phalloides*
*Amanita vittadinii*
*Armillaria tabescens*
*Auricolaria auricola-judae*
*Calvatia chyatiformis*
*Calvatia excipuliformis*
*Clitocybe dealbata*
*Clitocybe phyllophila*
*Coprinus comatus*
*Coprinus micaceus*
*Coprinus plicatilis*
*Coprinus silvaticus*
*Daedaleopsis confragosa*
*Flammulina velutipes*
*Ganoderma adspersum*
*Hygrocybe pratensis*
*Inocybe fastigiata*
*Inocybe patouillardii*
*Inocybe geophylla*
*Hypoloma fasciculare*
*Laccaria laccata*
*Laccaria tortilis*
*Lacrymaria velutina*
*Lactarius vellereus*
*Leccinium duriusculum*
*Lepiota excoriata*
*Lepiota naucina*
*Lepista sordida*
*Lycoperdon perlatum*
*Marasmius oreades*
*Melanoleuca grammopodia*
*Paxillus involutus*
*Phallus hadriani*
*Pleurotus cornucopiae*
*Pleurotus ostreatus*
*Pluteus petasatus*
*Polyporus sulphureus*
*Psathyrella squamosa*
*Russula atropurpurea*
*Russula laurocerasi*
*Scleroderma citrinum*
*Schizophyllum commune*
*Tremella mesenterica*
*Tricholoma argyraceum*
*Tricholoma saponaceum*
*Volvariella speciosa*
*Xerocomus ripariellus*

INDEX

UNIDENTIFIED MUSHROOMS