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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.
went out to shoot 'autumn'... and grabbed some shots of some toadstools which were growing randomly at the side of the road, there were loads of them
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After a long, extremely bone-jarring drive on gravel, washboarded roads, we arrived at Toadstool Geological Park, billed as "the badlands of Nebraska."
Near Brockenhurst, October 2007
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Toadstool, mushroom, fungus... call it what you will. I've no idea what species it is but I thought it made an excellent photo.
Sunset at the toadstools with smoke from the Dragon Bravo Fire on the North rim behind
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
From up above they may look small, but from ground level -- they were quite the collection of towers.
This dress has been handmade with care especially for Blythe dolls using the most beautiful quality fabrics and trim. This unique dress has a full gathered skirt made from Scandinavian cotton fabric featuring a bold toadstools print, and trimmed with tiny pale blue pom pom trim. The bodice is made from Japanese brown striped fabric and decorated with white cotton lace and tiny antique gold buttons. A brown belt and white buckle at the waist adds the finishing touch! The dress closes with small metal snaps at the back.
The fairy Toadstool house has a litle red door with a blue glass bed handle and letter box. The windows glow yellow with the fairy candles that glow inside :)
This is the correct orientation for this image - the toadstools are indeed projecting out sideways. It seems surprising that the stipes are not curved skywards and the caps are not rotated into a more horizontal angle; just how are the spores meant to be efficiently dispersed?
The troupe is emerging from the trunk of a living Beech tree, not far from ground level.
There was a veritable cornucopia of fungi on the Low Green beside the beach in Ayr. No idea what kind it is. Just clicked on the macro setting and hoped for the best (See the large version for full effect!).
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Another toadstool with a purple color, but less spectacular since it is only on top of its cap. This is a toadstool from the genus Russula, but I\'m not entirely sure which one, maybe it is the \"fragile brittlegill\".
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While I lost around half of my toadstool leather frags in the Winter of 2007, including the really big one, I still have a ton of survivors. All of them are ... prospering. As far as I can tell, these things are basically unkillable. My original frag was a freebie from my local fish store because someone had brought it in on some rocks in a box NOT IN WATER. It looked too sad for him to keep in his display tanks and he didn't have a frag tank in the back. He figured it was going to die anyway. It didn't.
Some little toadstools grow in the grass. I am not sure what these ones are called. I need a little book to find out I think. I did not eat them as they are probably poisonous.