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The red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture. [29] Garden ornaments and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes. [29] [135] Fly agarics have been featured in paintings since the Renaissance, [136] albeit in a subtle manner.
Toadstool generally denotes one poisonous to humans. [ 1 ] The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus ; hence, the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi ( Basidiomycota , Agaricomycetes ) that have a stem ( stipe ), a cap ( pileus ), and gills (lamellae, sing.
toadstool amanitins: liver Indonesia Gyromitra esculenta (Pers. ex Pers.) Fr. false morel gyromitrin and monomethylhydrazine: multiple (depletes PLP stores) Coniferous woodlands in the Northern hemisphere: Morchella spp. Inosperma erubescens Matheny & Esteve-Rav. red-staining inocybe (prev. I. patouillardii) muscarine: CNS Deciduous woodland ...
[5] [6] The upper and inner surface is black or dark grey, and rarely yellow. [4] The lower and outer fertile surface is a much lighter shade of grey. The fertile surface is more or less smooth but may be somewhat wrinkled. The size of the elliptical spores is in the range 10–17 μm × 6–11 μm. The basidia are two-spored.
The cap is convex when young, and soon flattens out into a mostly irregular shape. It is red-brown when young, yellowish grey when old and usually about 2–5 cm in diameter. the pores are white, turning slightly brown when bruised, and the spores are white. The stem is light yellowish brown often with a black base.
Panaeolus semiovatus var. semiovatus, also known as Panaeolus semiovatus and Anellaria separata, and commonly known as the shiny mottlegill, ringed panaeolus, common fungus of the feces variety, [1] or egghead mottlegill, is a medium-sized buff-colored mushroom that grows on horse dung, and has black spores.
Russula adusta, commonly known as the blackening brittlegill or blackening russula, is a species of gilled mushroom.It is a member of the Russula subgenus Compactae. [1] The cap is brown to gray and somewhat shiny, with a mild taste and, reportedly, an odor of empty wine barrels. [1]
Coprinopsis atramentaria, commonly known as the common ink cap, tippler's bane, or inky cap, is a species of fungus.Previously known as Coprinus atramentarius, it is the second best-known ink cap and previous member of the genus Coprinus after C. comatus.