vetryan15 wrote on Dec 13
th, 2017 at 8:20pm:
What are your thoughts on 'Roger Phillips ' mushroom app, and "fungitron"
Rogers is ok. But Audubon and Myco Pro are better in my opinion. Having high quality pictures is important. So Rogers has considerably more quantity but much less quality, which becomes frustrating.
I looked into fungitron at one time but found it lacking. Was that the one that only has edible mushrooms or maybe it was missing the hallucinogens? I don't remember.
Anyways, worth a look. I do remember downloading then deleting both these apps fairly quickly so whatever the reasoning I was not impressed.
So, at the risk of being a bit wordy (never stopped me before), here's a quick rundown on getting the most out of the apps.
First search functions on apps are very limited and often don't work well. So best bet is to use the quiz and train yourself to see similarities within genera. Then you will pick up a mushroom and say, "Hey this looks like one of these 3 or 4 genera" Now you've narrowed it down by a very wide margin.
Secondly, take the mushroom and the spore print and check mykoweb, mushroom observer or one of the other sites on mushroom id. Either click on the genus you think it is or just take the spore color and other major identifiers and start from there.
There are many more mushrooms you will find then will ever be in an app so the apps main purpose are to help you with the well known ones and provide you with a baseline where you can start understanding how they are grouped.