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I was so excited to see these cute (albeit poisonous) mushrooms! They were so pretty - I took TONS of toadstool photos.
I don't know what it is, but I went out to find this month's theme subject of mushrooms / toadstools / fungus & in the course of a 1 mile walk through the countryside, in the dark, this is the only one I found.
My garden is full of toadstools. The little people were sent out with buckets of boiling water. This was to kill the spores, before I pulled them out, so the toadstools (hopefully) didn't spread.
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.
Toadstool Girl Ester Art Doll
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