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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.
Found these coming out of the wood chippings right next to the children's swing. The wood chipping is thick with white stuff, presumably from these toadstools.
Are they the deadly Deathcap?
Toadstool Girl Ester Art Doll
By: A Curious Twirl
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This is one of the six campsites at the park. Nice vault toilets but I did not see water available. It may have been but I did not see it easily. No trees anywhere! It's a mini Badlands area.
Cyathus striatus. Loved finding just the one of these - you can just make out the 'eggs' in the base.