A dialect name for the boletus, cep or porcino mushroom, often used in dried form in stews and stocks.
King trumpet mushroom. Typically these mushrooms grow on the roots of wild thistles (cardo in Italian), hence the name. It may be eaten either fresh or dried, roasted or baked but the flavour is not highly regarded and the flesh is chewy.
Hen of the woods or maitake mushroom. A frilled fungus with many caps that grows on trees and which is edible when it is very young.
A name in Emilia-Romagna for the St George's mushroom. A small white or cream mushroom that appears in parts of Europe around St George's Day on 23rd April.
