Janet Wilder > wrote:

> The ones I was looking for are the boletus/porcini I found.
> The boletus are mostly black. These are the ones I ordered
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mw7cxdg

These ones have very little to do with the noble porcini. They are very
common mushrooms, called "Butterpilze" or "Butterröhrlinge" in German
and "maslyata" in Russian, the name deriving from "butter" in both cases
and referring, presumably, to the oily/slimy surface of their caps.
These mushrooms are not very highly prized and are considered to be hard
to digest.

> They are most probably cultivated in Chile as they are not native to
> South America.

They are not cultivated anywhere, as far as I know, but have been
introduced to South America with the pine trees.

Victor