Question

Which of the following is called "toadstools"?
A)All mushrooms
B)Edible mushrooms
C)Poisonous fungi
D)None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: It can cause acute fatal liver necrosis. Mostly of three types - Ones that will kill you, Ones that will make you seriously ill, and Ones that will give you hallucinations. The degree of poisoning is affected by the species consumed.

Complete answer:
-There are two types of fungi, edible and non-edible types. There are certain fungi that are not consumed because of the production of toxins like amatoxins and phallotoxins. The fungi which produce these toxins are referred to as poisonous fungi or the toadstools.
-A unscientific label that is toadstool is applied to a variety of mushrooms that is usually referred to the colorful and poisonous or not edible mushrooms
-A toadstools are present in the form of a rounded cap on a stalk having the spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus that is believed to be inedible or poisonous.
Examples of poisonous fungi are Death Cap (Amanita phalloides), Conocybe filaris, Webcaps (Cortinarius species), etc.

Additional Information: -Mushrooms are edible fungus and are packed with several important nutrients. The basis of differentiation of mushrooms is their compositions and nutritional profiles.
The texture of edible mushrooms is often fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species of macrofungi that can be looked at with the naked eye.
They can either grow below ground (hypogeous) or above the surface (epigeous) which can be easily picked out.
The most common, biggest., and versatile variety of edible mushroom is Oyster mushrooms that easily gets cultivated on the decaying wood.

So, the correct answer is, “Poisonous fungi”.

Note: -Autumn months provide favorable conditions for both fungi considered mushrooms and toadstools.
-The decaying organic matter is the source of nutrition for both the toadstools and mushrooms and intending to release their spores to reproduce.