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PICKING WILD MUSHROOMS in APULIA/ITALY🇮🇹
WILD MUSHROOMS IN APULIA – Gatering edible wild mushrooms in Italy
WOODS & FORESTS in APULIA / PUGLIA (*1)
INDICE
179,040 hectares
This is the total coverage of woods and forests in the Italian Region of Apulia/Puglia.
Apulia/Puglia is the region of Italy with the lowest extension of woods.
Here, the province with the largest extension of woods is the province of Foggia with 111,204 hectares.
Follow the provinces of: Taranto (31,034), Bari (28,236), Lecce (5,459), Brindisi (3,107).
Here is how the forests of Apulia are composed
- Mixed Pines – 776
- Black Pine – 1,554
- Stone Pine – 29,012
- Beech forests – 4,661
- Mixed Oaks forests – 63,543
- Chestnut forests – 1,165
- Elm & Hornbeam – 5,049
- Evergreen Oaks – 16,703
- Hygrophilous woods – 388
- Others deciduous – 20,197
- thickets or shrubs – 33,150
WILD MUSHROOMS IN APULIA / PUGLIA – WHERE TO GO HUNTING MUSHROOMS
Legend:
🌲 ► Pinewoods, Conifers, mountain or coastal pinewoods
🌿 ► Lowland forests: Hornbeam, Oak, Ash, Morus, Aspen, Elm, Willow, Sycamore
🌾 ► Foodplain forests: Alder, Hornbeam, Ash, Aspen, Willow, Bird Cherry, Elder
⛱ ► Coastal woods: Conifers, Stone Pine, Aleppo Pine, Kermes Oak, Salt Cedar
🍃 ► Mediterranean scrubs: Conifers, Evergeen Oaks, Strawberry tree, Laurel
🌱 ► Thermophile woods: Pubescent Oak, Oaks, Manna Ash, Black Hornbeam
🌳 ► Oak forests: Oaks prevailing, Hazel, Chestnut, Cherry tree, Hornbeam
🍁 ► Chestnut forests, Chestnut prevailing, Hazel, Maple, Birch
☘ ► Cold mixed forests: Beech, Birch, Rowan, Spruce, Fir
🍂 ► Beech forests: Beech tree prevailing, Birch, Rowan/Mountain Ash, Spruce
⛰ ► Mountain forests/Pasturage: Beech tree, Birch, Spruce, Fir, Meadows
🏡 ► Municipal Park: planted Broadleafs or Conifers
🗻 ► Mountain place: Alps or Apennine Mountains sites
🍄 ► maximum quantity of mushrooms to be collected = 1/2/3 kg
The most beautiful Parks, Natural Reserves and forests in italy (where to harvest mushrooms)
WILD MUSHROOMS IN APULIA / PUGLIA
(in alphabetical order)
► MUSHROOMS @ APULIA
🍄 In this region you can collect everyday – maximum 3 kg fungi daily.
Parks & Natural reserves @ Apulia/Puglia:
- Parco Nazionale Alta Murgia🍃 🗻 (Alta Murgia National Park) – Mediterranean Scrubs not on seashore
- Parco Nazionale del Gargano-Foresta Umbra 🌲🍂 (Gargano & Foresta Umbra National Park) Mediterranean forest
- Parco Naturale Regionale Bosco Incoronata 🍃🌳🌳 (Bosco Incoronata Regional Park) Oak & Holm Oaks wood
🍄 Main places where to harvest mushrooms in Apulia:
- Bosco dell’Incoronata – Incoronata wood (Foggia)🍃🌳🌳
- Castelluccio Valmaggiore – Area Naturale Lago Pescara – Lake Pescara (Foggia)🍁🌳
- Foresta Umbra – Gargano (Foggia)🌲🍂
- Salento – Bosco e paludi di Rauccio-Bosco di S. Cataldo-Riserva le Cesine (Lecce)🍃🌲
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(*1) INFC, 2008 – Le stime di superficie – Risultati per Macroaree e Province, Autori P. Gasparini, L. Di Cosmo, C. Gagliano, G. Mattiuzzo e G. Tabacchi. Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei Serbatoi Forestali di Carbonio, MIPAAF – Ispettorato Generale Corpo Forestale dello Stato, CRA-MPF, Trento