What is the difference between toadstools and mushrooms? Complete General Knowledge Question and Answer for Class 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Students CBSE Exams.

What is the difference between toadstools and mushrooms?

There are no differences between the two. In scientific terms there is nothing called a toadstool. Some people call poisonous mushrooms toadstools. But botanists do not use the term. Mushrooms are actually fungi. Poisonous mushrooms contain a powerful poison which causes death. A story goes that Emperor Nero killed an entire party of guests by serving them poisonous mushrooms.