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On Sat, 8 May 2004 11:07:55 +0100, Kate Morgan
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My other half picked some mushrooms from our garden yesterday and ate
them, said they were very good

When is the wake? :-) or perhaps :-((( ?

Isn't May a little early for wild mushrooms?

I dunno, we always have them this time of the year and hubby is fine,
cutting the lawn as I speak :-)

Aren't they fungii, rather than mushrooms?

Fungi which have a cap and a stipe are mushrooms - all of them. They are
toadstools too. The terms are completely interchangeable. 'Toadstool'
derives from the Germanic languages, specifically Old Norse, and
'mushroom' derives from the Old French.

Fungi, OTOH, are divided into three groups, Phycomycetes, (Like algae,
but colourless) Ascomycetes (Cap fungi, morels, yeasts, ergot) and
Basidiomycetes, (bracket fungi, mushrooms/toadstools. Gasteromycetes
(puffballs, earth stars etc) are a subset of basidiomycetes

There is another group which goes under the name of 'Fungi Imperfecti'.
This refers to imperfect knowledge of them rather than any imperfections
in the organism....

HTH

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