On Sat, 08 May 2004 14:17:36 GMT, "Cereus-validus"
wrote:


"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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"Cereus-validus" wrote in message
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All mushrooms are fungi.


However not all fungi are mushrooms.

I think poster was checking if they were mushrooms or another type of
fungus - could be Toadstools of course :-)




Common names are of no significance. They are all fungi.

What does matter is whether they are edible or poisonous.



When somebody says they have giant mushrooms in their garden and I ask
if it isn't a little early for them, the common name does matter. It
doesn't matter whether they are edible or not, because we know that
they are, OP said her husband ate them.
There are a very limited number of edible fungi referred to as
mushrooms.