Slim6y, Cats are animals, Dogs are animals, both are mammals........... does that make them the same?
Apples are fruit, pumpkins are fruit does that make them the same?
Sorry, but that kind of comment is very unproductive.
Fungi produce toadstools and mushrooms - both are the fruiting bodies of the mycellial growth - correct?
They both are colloquial terms - correct?
If you want to argue it go for it - I never said you're wrong, you just said I was....
I am telling you you're correct but so am I....
Toadstools and mushrooms are the same thing... and you to have pointed that out by saying that a mushroom refers to one type of fruiting body and a toadstool refers to all others - though I suggested this was just a colloquial term that covers both mushroom and toadstool together
And the links I provided you also show that.
The argument is purely redundant - we're both not wrong
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And to back up my statements from your link:
The terms ‘mushroom’ and ‘toadstool’ are subjective rather than strictly scientific, and therefore are open to a range of loose interpretations. In general, fungi with fruit bodies that have a cap more or less centrally placed on top of a stem are referred to as ‘mushrooms’, or as ‘mushrooms and toadstools’.
So I think that solves your mystery - toadstools and mushy's are the same thing as is a holden manaro and a ford mustang - both are cars
PS - Go on, argue that pumpkin aren't fruit!