• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    In my part of the world, there are at least a dozen+ culinary and/or medicinal mushrooms that are distinctive and easy to identify (even by casuals like me). These don’t really have any dangerous look-a-likes that also grow in the same area. I stick to those and those alone. Granted, even at 12 or so species that I can ID, that’s probably like a tiny fraction of the number of different species that exist in this area.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Well, this local mushroom is either the Taste Scrumptiouspuff, which is amazing is stews, roasts and stirfry… or the murderkilldeathshroom. Would you say this fringe is curved with a swirl, or swirled with a curve?

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    15 hours ago

    I’m the opposite, I can tell some really difficult mushrooms apart due to good ol’ hyperfixation but I still know jack about plants and trees.

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    19 hours ago

    Some areas have mushrooms that are so similar the only reliable way to identify them is using a spore print.

    Plants and animals tend to have more distinct identifying features like leaf patterns, bark texture or hair color.