Pioppini are the best known mushrooms since the ancient times, and they are perhaps the first mushrooms cultivated of the history. Although his habitat both below poplars, tree from which he takes the name, it has also been recovered on trunks of fig tree. The meat, firm and elastic, it is accompanied to an odor and a pleasant taste, besides the low fat and wealth of proteins and carbohydrates make it proper to a low fat diet .