Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Does it include all "mushroom-looking-like" things that're inedible?
No, only the poisonous ones.  For example, the shelf fungus (_Ganoderma_
sp., looks like a shelf growing out of the side of dead trees or stumps)
is not a toadstool, being merely inedible rather than actually toxic.

> Well, I shan't be pontificating on English terminology here, but I do believe
> that "fungus" is the English term for the relevant kingdom.
Indeed.

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