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Was out and about twice today (I know!!). Early this morning garnered me some misty moody shots. Sadly rather too misty and moody to be much use.
This afternoon I took Lily up to the woods where the toadstools are beginning to appear in numbers. I furtled about rather a lot in the undergrowth, much to her disgust - she kept coming back to look for me. I like this shot because I think the torchlight makes them look like little lamps.
We found this cute little toadstool under the pine trees in the park right next to our house.
ANSH 36 Item 16 Patterns in Nature
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.
I did not remain wholly inactive this autumn.
I did take some picture, this one included,
but too few I'm ashamed to say.
Now onto waiting for next year's autumn!
-please refrain from using group logo's (simple links are ok)
Havent a clue what these are other than Toadstools or Fugi !
Taken in the back garden (well the inlaws back garden)
The foto club at my uni did some painting with light. This is a toadstool that two of the girls made.