In the forest near Hope, Alaska

Toadstools and Blossoms

Hampshire

September 2013

Mosaic House, Odburu, Prague

Jake used the yummy recipe for dough from one of our Moosewood Restaurant cookbooks. Jake is the pizza maker in our house.

He rolled the dough into 30 small pizzas then hand-cut the mushroom shape. A lot of work? Yes! But look how cute they are and they tasted delicious.

Inspired by this blog.

i am now worried about my back garden. i don't believe this is normal in a lawn.

This toadstool looks like it grew so fat it burst through its skin. BTW, whosoever named these things toadstools was brilliant. It's such a cool and descriptive word.

After a spell of rain, these toadstools sprouted from an old palm tree trunk in my garden.

saw these on sundays walk around ludham marshes

Toadstools

Backgarden toadstool found on my lawn, can anyone identify them? Taken in UK

Large yellow toadstools are coming up along the trail in the state gamelands. The largest one I saw (not this one) had a cap as big as a dinner plate. Magical!

Sketch for toadstool/ mushroom with face

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After the rain.

Toadstool Geological Park and Campground

Harrison, NE 69346

Modernist House near Esher. Toadstools in the garden.

Toadstool at Westleton Heath

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

panorama of one section of toadstools. Very strange terrain.

Tutorial blogged here.

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?

Canterbury, October 2012.

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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.

odd, but cute lighting down the steps to the villa

Some have been nibbled.

Peeking out from the underbrush

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I thought the lens flare looked kind of cool ...