Have you noticed the world getting a little more obsessed with mushrooms lately?
The following resources can help anyone get more familiar with the characteristicsand relative dangerof your local fungi friends.
you might also ID mushrooms on the app by selecting characteristics.
It includes a mushroom encyclopedia and allows you to connect with other users to discuss your finds.
(Available forAndroidandApple.)
you could secure your fungi finds in your own collection on the app.
Youll find articles about mushrooms anda mushroom encyclopedia.
you could also use the app to talk about mushrooms with mycologists.
(Available forAndroidandApple.)
It includes more than 900 species and lists look-alikes to help you get the most accurate ID.
(Available forAndroid.)
(Available forAndroidandApple.)
Mushroom LITEField Guide:This app includes 300+ species of mushroom.
Again, you select characteristics to identify what youve found.
(Available forApple.)
It also tells you which months you are likely to find each species.
(Available forAndroid.)
you’re free to also track downlocal expertsto help with identification in cases of suspected poisoning.
It may be from 1986, but have mushrooms really changed that much in the last 30 years?
At over 1,000 pages, this is a chonky booksomething to consider when youre tromping through the woods.
Amazon calls it the be-all and end-all of mushroom books!
Another cool feature is its detailed content on edibility, uses, and folklore of each mushroom punch in.
If it aint broke, dont fix it.
At 720 pages, it includes 2,900 color photos of 668 mushrooms species in North America.
While only about3%of known mushroom species are poisonous, the baddest baddies can be deadly.
