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First, a refusal. This app does not deal with edibility. Please never use it to decide whether a mushroom may be eaten.
Second, another refusal. It does not name the species. From a photo it goes as far as the genus, for example close to Amanita, and it stops there. Specialists do not settle a species from one photograph either. This app draws the same line.
WHAT IT CAN ANSWER: 18 GENERA Agaricus, Amanita, Auricularia, Boletus, Clitocybe, Coprinellus, Cortinarius, Flammulina, Ganoderma, Hygrocybe, Inocybe, Lactarius, Leccinum, Lycoperdon, Mycena, Pholiota, Russula, Trametes. Only two ways of putting it: close, or possibly close. No percentages. Anything outside those eighteen is not nudged toward the nearest match; the app says it could not find a close relative.
WHAT YOU CAN READ: 138 WRITE-UPS Alongside the eighteen genera there are write-ups for the mushrooms people actually talk about at home, including shiitake, oyster mushroom, king oyster, beech mushroom, maitake, nameko, matsutake and snow fungus. 138 in total (18 genera + 120 species). Each one covers the look, the season, where you meet it, the clues for telling it apart, how it lives and one small fact, with its sources named (Japanese and English Wikipedia, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy). You can read the whole thing without taking a single photo.
ABOUT LOOKALIKES Mushrooms that share a colour and a shape can belong to completely different groups.
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