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Are you a mushroom hunter and have trouble identifying edible foods? There are many mushroom identification apps for Android that can help you distinguish edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. These apps cover all possible types of mushrooms and they do not offer detailed information on all of them.
The best thing about these apps is that they show you multiple photos of each mushroom so you can be sure it's the one you're looking for. Some apps even allow you to identify mushrooms by taking or uploading a photo of them. If you want to know what the best apps are for identifying mushrooms , I invite you to continue reading.
Mushroom ID
The mushroom identifier allows us to recognize any mushroom we encounter. take a simple photo , a photo that compares an extensive database to offer us a result most similar to the image, with detailed information about its gastronomic use (if it is not poisonous), characteristic color, similar mushrooms...
In addition, if we want to expand our knowledge, he offers us a fun game in which pictures of mushrooms are shown and three possible answers. This will also help us determine the best conditions for mushroom picking in the area where we are located.
Mushroom Identify is available for your download for free, includes advertising and in-app purchases to unlock all the features it offers us. Unlike other apps that seem to be forgotten on the Play Store, this app is regularly updated with new varieties.
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Mushroom ID - automatic identification
Developer: Annapurnappe Technologies
Cost: Free
Ecoguide - mushrooms and guide
An extensive encyclopedia for iOS containing descriptions of more than 300 types of mushrooms. A guide that takes into account 24 morphological and ecological characteristics will help in recognizing them. There are also many supporting articles and even recipes for various dishes. You can test your own knowledge using a special quiz.
All content of the application is available even without an Internet connection, however, in the free version, photos of mushrooms are shown only in black and white. To access color photographs you need to pay.
Ecoguide - Mushrooms and Key
Ecosystema
Price: Free
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Price: Free
Fungus
Thanks to more than 2.000 photos with the app, we can manually identify mushrooms among more than 500 species. Additionally, it allows us to create our own database with mushroom locations detected through our smartphone's GPS, creating harvesting zones.
Does not require an Internet connection and the application is in Spanish. Fungipedia was created by the Mycological Association Fungipedia, so they have known about mushrooms and other products for some time, although it has not been updated for over 4 years. This application is available on the Play Store for 6.99 euros.
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Fungus
Developer: Fungal Mycological Association
Cost: 6.99 €
Mushroom Picker's Guide
This directory app features a more modern interface and easy navigation. From the menu on the left you can quickly jump to the sections of edible and inedible mushrooms. All of them are supplemented with several photos, a description and an indication of the season when they can be collected.
No less useful will be advice and articles that provide answers to many questions about poisonous mushrooms and possible poisoning. There is also a visual calendar showing the seasonality of all mushrooms from the directory. With its help you can find out when is the best time to go to the forest.
Mushroom Picker's Guide
headcorp
Price: Free
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Price: Free
Fungus - Definition of mushrooms
Fungus uses artificial intelligence algorithms to recognize the mushroom in question from its database of over 12,000 mushrooms classified into almost 1,800 species using our device's camera. If we want the identification to be as accurate as possible, we must photograph the mushrooms in good light and from different angles.
This application allows us to create a search history with the photos we took to recognize them. Once you have identified the mushroom in question, it will show us the corresponding Wikipedia file where we can find all the information we may need at that time, the most important of which is whether it is venous or not.
Fungus - Fungus Identification is free to download and contains advertising, but no in-app purchases.
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Fungus - Definition of mushrooms
Developer: Dominik Steinhauser
Cost: Free
Recognizing mushrooms from photos online
Identifying mushrooms from photos allows you to collect only safe and edible mushrooms. Convenient applications and websites will become a real assistant for beginners, and will also help experienced foresters learn new interesting species.
Mushroom recognition with Yandex Alice
One of the popular services from Yandex is the voice assistant Alice. She knows how to tell stories, plays, selects music, but at the same time she can also accurately determine what is in the photo.
The operating principle is as follows:
- go to the Yandex browser and select the purple icon in the middle, at the bottom of the screen;
- then the voice assistant turns on and you need to say: “Alice, identify from the photo”;
- Next, a photo is uploaded to the chat, after which all similar options and a selection of important information will be displayed on the screen.
Gribnikoff.ru - encyclopedia of mushrooms
This site is a real encyclopedia that will become a faithful assistant to both beginners and experienced mushroom pickers. The resource allows each user to familiarize themselves with important information about edible, poisonous and hallucinogenic species and read the description.
The site provides information about more than 300 types of common “gifts of nature.”
All information is publicly available and does not require authorization or other complex actions.
How to find out what kind of mushroom online on PC
For confident computer users, we can recommend the website Gribnikoff.ru. The determination is made based on specific parameters, for example, the color of the cap, stem, internal structure and other inputs. Of course, some words may be unfamiliar, but you can rely on ready-made answers from the search or use the green button for help. You can also specify the type of soil and location. In general, it is recommended to enter explicit parameters to ensure accurate analysis.
Using apps is an opportunity to maintain your health and take care of your loved ones. For beginners, they will become an encyclopedia and a kind of companion, and will also help experienced mushroom pickers to reveal the hidden secrets of the forest and become the key to new knowledge.
Shroomify - Mushroom Identification
If none of the previous applications have helped us identify the mushrooms present in our environment, we must choose an application like Shroomify, an application that is only in English and that allows us to detect up to 400 common mushrooms.
The name of the fungus identifying the application is also shown in Latin , so we can quickly consult Wikipedia to learn about specific properties if we are not very familiar with Shakespeare's language.
The application allows us to access a large database where we can search by names, shapes and colors . Shroomify is available as a free download, it does not include ads, but if you purchase it in-app, it will unlock access to all the features it offers us (and there are quite a few).
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Shroomify - Mushroom Identification
Developer: Forager's Friend
Cost: Free
Conditionally edible agaric mushrooms
This group of mushrooms has a similar lamellar structure, but such specimens are characterized by restrictions on consumption. More often, mushrooms can be eaten after special processing.
Some mushrooms require long soaking, others require cooking or pickling. In their raw form, such species contain a small amount of harmful toxins that do not cause poisoning, but can upset digestion.
Aspen mushroom
Milky from the Russula family. The cap can be from 6 to 30 cm (mushrooms grow large), convex, with a depression in the center. The edges are straightened and wavy. The color is white, sometimes pinkish spots can be seen. The plates are often bifurcated, not wide and frequent, with a light pink tint.
Mushrooms love aspen, willow and poplar. They grow in groups in the lower Volga region from July to October.
Oak milk mushroom
Another type of milk mushroom that prefers to grow with oak mycorrhiza. The cap is up to 12 cm, brick, orange, funnel-shaped, irregular in shape. The edges are rolled and wavy. The plates go down the stem, yellow. The pulp is white-cream, turns pink when cut.
Grows in deciduous forests. Loves hazel, oak and beech. Sometimes it occurs alone or is localized in a group in June-September.
Black milk mushroom
Popularly called nigella, hollow mushroom, pigtail, spruce mushroom. The cap reaches 20 cm, depressed in the center, the edges are spread out, funnel-shaped. The coating is slimy in the rain. The flesh is hard, but brittle, and turns gray when cut. The plates are forked and branched, descending down the stalk. The color of the cap is olive, marsh, dark brown.
It forms mycosis with birch. Grows in birch forests and mixed forests. Forms large groups, prefers moss. Can be found in the grass and along forest roads. Season – from July to October. Contains the mutagen nekatorin, which is considered harmful to the body, so it must be boiled several times.
White milky
The mushroom is small, the cap is up to 10 cm. The shape is convex at the beginning of growth, then twists into a funnel. The color is yellowish-white, later brown. The plates lengthen towards the bottom of the stem and are distinguished by their cream color and branching. The pulp is white.
Likes to grow on sandstone in pine and mixed forests in dry weather.
Row purple
Recently I began to belong to the category of talkers. More commonly called a bruise, cyanosis, or cyanosis. The cap is large, up to 15-20 cm. At the beginning of growth, it is hemispherical, then it opens and becomes depressed with curved edges. The mushroom is fleshy, dense, purple inside. The plates are adherent to the teeth, thin, brittle.
Prefers to grow on rotting leaves or in a pile of rotten needles. Most often localized near oak and spruce. Creates "witch circles". May coexist with the smoky talker. Season – August-December.
Poplar row
Other names: poplar row, poplar row, zabaluika. The cap is hemispherical, convex, up to 12 cm in size, uneven, curved. Color sand, brown. The pulp is dense, white.
It grows in large groups from August to October under poplars in parks and along roads. Most of them can be found in the south of Russia and Siberia.
