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You mean because people have been using apps to try and identify mushrooms? Oh dear.
Give me actual knowledge over f****** mobile phones any time.
Oliver Schick-
It’s not really any different to taking a field guide out though is it ? Some of the apps are pretty good- I use a Tree Fungus app all the time when I’m out surveying trees and narrowing down what I’m looking at and what it means. I also use a Fungi app that has a range of filters based on features which is really useful if you’re out at a site with a lot of possibles. Some of the good woodland sites have a thousand species recorded and I don’t know anyone that carts Phillips or Kibby around the field but they will have a phone . Incidentally the Brittlestems above aren’t in Phillips.
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I used to work with a mycologist and he’d occasionally do a lunchtime walk around the site looking for fungi, he was quite modest about his own ability to identify fungi, but honestly we never found anything he couldn’t give the Latin name for. It was very impressive.
Big_Nick
Tonts
There was some interesting coverage here on Belgian tv (as foraging is getting more and more popular here). The tv guy picked 10 different kinds of mushrooms and identified them using an app. Afterwards he took the mushrooms to Ghent Uni and had them identified by one of our top specialists. 4 out of these 10 were identified as edible but were actually severely sick making to even lethal. Here in Belgium the number of people ending up in ER has gone up by 400% the last couple of years.