That’s interesting, I’ve noticed recently that the iNaturalist identification has been suggesting wrong IDs on some very easy and obvious images like a pair of Killdeer IDd as a Hooded Merganser.
I think identifying mushrooms with these apps is a fool’s errand at this point. They are almost always wrong, unless it’s something very obvious and distinctive.
Well maybe your experience has been different from mine but the suggestions I get are usually very wrong. You can absolutely use it as a jumping off point for further research and verification but I am wary of people thinking that these apps are at all accurate for mushrooms. There was just an article of a guy who ate destroying angels because his app ID’d them as giant puffballs. This is not a level of accuracy that I can endorse when the consequences can be life or death.
Seek specifically has a warning as soon as you open the camera to start an identification. I personally would not trust it enough for consumption even without the warning.
I did a little reading on the difference. It seems I’ll have to start looking at the undersides of mushrooms in the future. That seemed to be the easiest way to differentiate.
It doesn’t say on <a href="">wikipedia</a> if it can be used for making dyes, but the colour is due to light exposure…
Young fruit bodies that are still beneath the earth are white; as they mature and emerge from the ground, the exposure to light causes the color to change to violet
and also
It was one of six species that appeared as part of a series depicting native New Zealand fungi on stamps, released in 2002
It is incredibly striking, so I can see why it was ‘honoured’ with a stamp
Slime molds do it for me also, I just don’t know whether they fit here though? I have started some posting to macro photography (which is another community that’s gone quite quiet recently)
They are really beautiful, the green and blue ones look like they belong on the ‘Avatar’ planet. I’m going to have a look for some nice photos to post, cheers 👍
To help your what? I’m intrigued. Some I fried in butter for an omelette, others I had with noodles, and I dried a lot of them. I’ll probably rehydrate those and cook them in cider with sausages
There’s a guy on shroomery that seemed to have it down to a science a few years ago. It was a little more involved than cubes but not by much. I haven’t been active there in a while, I wonder if the process has been simplified since then.
I’ve grown Pans and they’re no harder than cubes if you know how to pastuerize and balance FAE and humidity for oyster mushrooms. And I know people grow Psilocybe Cyans but they tend to fruit them outside in a wood patch.
Panaeolus cyanescens can be grown at home - at least there are finished sets, I couldn’t get to fruit mine with cow dung, as planned… But the original substrate worked well
I’ve grown Bisporus, which are slower than Cyans. If you know how to pastuerize (which you can do in a dehydrator if you want to make it idiot proof; message me if you want help on this), they’re not that hard. They like a lot of FAE and humidity, similar to oyster mushrooms, but people grow those all the time without issue.
Check out Baba Yaga’s thread on the shroomery, growing pans in monos. They really don’t require a lot of extra shit if you’re patient and know how to clone.
Destroying angels are among the most toxic known mushrooms; both they and the closely related death caps (A. phalloides) contain amatoxins.[1]
Destroying angels can be mistaken for edible fungi such as the button mushroom, meadow mushroom, or the horse mushroom. Young destroying angels that are still enclosed in their universal veil can be mistaken for puffballs, but slicing them in half longitudinally will reveal internal mushroom structures. This is the basis for the common recommendation to slice in half all puffball-like mushrooms picked when mushroom hunting. Mushroom hunters recommend that people know how to recognize both the death cap and the destroying angel in all of their forms before collecting any white gilled mushroom for consumption
The destroying angel (Amanita bisporigera) and the death cap (Amanita phalloides) account for the overwhelming majority of deaths due to mushroom poisoning. The toxin responsible for this is amatoxin, which inhibits RNA polymerase II and III. Symptoms do not appear for 5 to 24 hours, by which time the toxins may already be absorbed and the damage (destruction of liver and kidney tissues) is irreversible. As little as half a mushroom cap can be fatal if the victim is not treated quickly enough. The symptoms include vomiting, cramps, delirium, convulsions, and diarrhea.
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