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A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button ...
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The family of Basidiosporeae include the largest and most conspicuous of the fungi and all of the mushrooms and toadstools. It is commonly believed that mushrooms are edible and that toadstools are poisonous; in reality, however, no such distinction should be made.
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Many fungi are poisonous, and a still larger number frequently prove indigestible and unwholesome. ... An illustrative fact of the truth of this statement has been adduced in the case of a French officer and his wife, who died in consequence of breakfasting off some poisonous Agarics, which were nevertheless eaten by...
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The Poisonous Mushroom: This is the cover of the book. ... The Poisonous Mushroom: "Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a swindler and criminal..."
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With respect to your use of the word Toadstools, I quote the Pundit: "The slang term "toadstool" is best avoided, as it is ambiguous: to some people, 'toadstool' implies a poisonous mushroom." Not everyone, mind you.
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2.--Once more a fondness for mushrooms, combined with an ignorance that failed to distinguish them from poisonous toadstools, has resulted in fatal consequences, and to-day this village witnessed the funeral of two victims--a boy and a girl--of toadstool poisoning.
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how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions, by Charles McIlvaine ... and Robert K. Macadam. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.
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If however you are lucky enough to view what you think is either of the poisonous mushrooms above you must not touch, smell or go anywhere near them - definately do not pick them. There are toadstools which are poisonous but not quite deadl...
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Poisonous Toadstools Don't Change Their Spots ... Ah, but do these poisonous toadstools change their spots?........... memorable quote for young Mr. Weasley there, eh? What's that you say? Gasp! Don't tell me you've never heard that quote from one of Arthur Weasley's boys?
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Poisonous toadstools and edible mushrooms - the terms and the origins of suspicion and doubt defined ... Many good edible fungi are shunned by people who think that they are 'toadstools' and therefore poisonous. For example, provided it is properly cooked, Honey fungus, Armillaria mellea (left), is an edible and...
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