An Italian friend just came back from picking in the Castlegar area with mushrooms he always collects at this time of year. He calls them Stampini???? Some help please ,,,,wondering what these are----maybe some pictures??? Thanks, Ron
Yes, some pictures could be a good idea, or at the very least some description how the mushrooms look, otherwise we can only guess what your friend means by 'Stampini'. May be he means Porcini which is a common name for Boletus edulis. To quote Wikipedia:
... I've just done a quick run through of a longish list of Italian fungi names and nothing is similar sounding, and very few names beginning with S. However, like we experience with English language names, there are always regional common names folks use. Which is a big reason why we tend to use the latin/greek scientific names to discuss mushrooms/fungi so that we all know what we are referring to :-). cheers, - frog
Well. just returned from the W Kootenay area after finding and picking the mystifying "Stampini" mushrooms. Tried to attach an image (first time,,hope it loads) My guess is that its the Honey mushroom,,Armillariella mellea??? anybody tell from the photo??? Cheers, Ron
Yup - if you confirm they have white spores then I'd say they are Honey mushrooms Armillariella group. My mushroom-in-several-languages resource says that in Italian Agarico color di miele or Chiodini, but I'm sure names are regional and that there would be multiples for Honeys :-). But also I see an English name "Stumpers," that makes me wonder if Stampini relates to stumps? cheers -frog
Armillaria mellea. "Armillariella" appears to be a synonym of Armillaria; since Armillaria mellea is the type species of Armillaria, it can't be split out from it into a separate genus ;-)
