Thanks morphy .
You always come through with good advice.
I'll have a look.
And I'll do my best to get you a few photos

Glad to help.

I used to mentor a 14 year old young man and we would use the quiz function quite a bit. I'm positive he initially wanted to look at it to see magic mushrooms (thought he was being sneaky I guess) but having been a teen myself I figured he would start with the interest in magic mushrooms and get sucked into loving all mushrooms (that was me being sneaky). And he did, in fact, and became pretty darn good at identification.

Mushrooms are absolutely beautiful and myserious. I think you will enjoy finding and learning about them, just be careful. (I know you will, but have to say it.)

Here's some I found the other day.





I only saw the top from afar and immediately thought "Saffron Milkcap score!" But they are not unfortunately... smelled nice, but that's it.

vetryan15 wrote on Dec 13^th, 2017 at 8:20pm:


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.

Well I'm into the outdoors so I guess adding this to my knowledge is to my benefit . Magic mushrooms seem to have more info on the web for my region than plain edibles.
I'm currently laying in a hammock approx 7m off the ground in a small cork oak that for some reason is in the middle of an Australian forest. I have had a nice hike today and came across a few fungi . So I grabbed a few photos , I have no idea what they are.

And my lazy hammock spot

Have seen the shroom in first pic..somewhere.  LOL, probably in a shroom i d book 

Second pic is a meadow mushroom (agaricus spp) ...I think