Hop shoots, like most wild greens, have different names depending on the geographical region in which they are found: so you find ‘luvertìn’ in Piedmont or ‘lavertìn’ in Monferrato, while in Veneto, Emilia Romagna and in the area of Trieste they are called ‘bruscandoli’ or ‘vidisoni’, or ‘vartìs’; In Fruili they are known as ‘urtizon’, ‘bertüçi’ in the Val di Vara, ‘viticedda’ in Cilento, and ‘asparagine’ in Lombardy. More generally, and almost everywhere, we also find them referred to as ‘wild asparagus’.