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A staddle is a support or prop, usually a low flat-topped stone structure resembling a mushroom, used for supporting hay or corn stacks or a barn for storing grain - known as a staddle-barn - about two feet above ground level so that mice and rats can not climb in.
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The agaric is a large and important genus of fungi, characterized by having a fleshy cap or pileus, and a number of radiating plates or gills on which are produced the naked spores. The majority of this species are furnished with stems, but some are attached to the objects on which they grow by their pileus. Over a thousand species are known, and are arranged in five sections according as the colour of their spores is white, pink, brown, purple, or black. Many of the species are edible, like the common mushroom (Agaric campestris), and supply a delicious article of food, while others are deleterious and even poisonous.
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Cantharellus is a well-known genus of fungus of the order Cantharellales (the Chanterelles) . It has a funnel-shaped fruiting body. The genus includes the chanterelle wild mushroom.
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Champignon is a name given to the common mushroom of Britain (Agaricus campestris) and also to the edible fairy-ring fungus Marasmius oreades.
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The chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius) is an edible British mushroom of a bright orange colour.
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The fairy-ring mushroom (Marasmius oreades) is a pale red coloured mushroom with white gills.
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The Horn of Plenty or Black Trumpet (Craterellus cornucopioides) is a mushroom of the order Cantharellales found growing among leaf litter of the oak and beech. It is dried and cooked in stews.
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Marasmius is a genus of mushroom, with very tough gills which are not incised.
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The morel (Morchella esculenta) is an edible mushroom of the order Ascomycetes native to the temperate regions of the world. Morel has a short, white, tapering stem and a swollen head whose surface is broken into a network of ribs enclosing deep polygonal pits, varying in colour from yellowish-brown through to olive. Both the stem and the head are hollow.
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Mushroom is the popular name for numerous cryptogamic plants of the family Fungi. Some are edible and others are toxic.
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