Orto Botanico "Pania Di Corfino"
The Giardino Botanico "Maria Ansaldi" Pania di Corfino (about 7500m) is a botanical garden located an altitude of 1370 m in the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park, near the visitor center of Orecchiella Natural Park in Isera, Corfino, Villa Collemandina, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was established in 1984 to collect and preserve indigenous flora of the Apennine Mountains, Garfagnana valley and Apuan Alps . As such it reproduces environments typical of the region, including heath, hills, moor, pasture, and scree; it also contains an arboretum.
Specimens
Today the garden contains about 400 varieties of plants as well as botanical specimens and fossils.
Species of interest include:
- Alyssoides utriculata
- Caltha palustris
- Eriophorum sp.
- Erysimum pseudorhaeticum
- Gentiana purpurea
- Geum rivale
- Globularia incanescens
- Hesperis laciniata
- Lilium bulbiferum subsp. croceum
- Lilium martagon
- Linaria purpurea
- Orchis mascula
- Paeonia officinalis
- Primula apennina
- Saxifraga callosa subsp. callosa
- Sempervivum tectorum
- Swertia perennis
- Trollius europaeus.
Trees and woody plants include: