AI Mushroom Field Notes

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…