Toadstools photos on Flickr

Juvenile Fly Agaric Toadstool by Bill Stephens

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Another from Crook Hall Gardens with the definitive Pixie toadstool. These are not too common and are usually full of holes and partially eaten when you find them, if you find them. Have you ever seen one ?

toadstools by Anthea Barnes

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Toadstool by Ma.rysia

Toadstools by Yardie 83

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Toadstool by Mary Lojkine

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Toadstools III by Stewart Tansley

#Toadstool Fairy Cake by Jaxster

Toadstool Fairy Cake Baby Ladybug Beanstalk Snail Caterpillar Steppingstones 1st Birthday

toadstools 3 by Mike Lyvers

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panorama of one section of toadstools. Very strange terrain.

toadstool house by Cheryl Holkan

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This is just one of the many toys that I buy for my daughter and end up keeping because she would rather play with a plastic bag. Isn't it cute?

Toadstool in a tree by Bex Grimwood

Toadstools everywhere by In Memoriam: Mark Kilner

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Canterbury, October 2012.

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toadstools by Linda , Regenboog

Mushroom vs. toadstool

The relative sizes of the cap (pileus) and stalk (stipe) vary widely. Shown here is a species of Macrolepiota.

The terms "mushroom" and "toadstool" go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.

The term "toadstool" was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.[3]

The term "mushroom" and its variations may have been derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse). There may have been a direct connection to toads (in reference to poisonous properties) for toadstools. However, there is no clear-cut delineation between edible and poisonous fungi, so that a "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. The term "toadstool" is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms. The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.

toadstools by Dom Crayford