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Chanterelles and false chanterelles are especially tricky. They fruit at the same time in the same areas. I have to do a 2nd pass after I have washed and dried my haul. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
Ha! I just had a very interesting conversation with ChatGPT about a mushroom that I found in my front lawn. I am 99% sure it was an edible oyster mushroom which included analysis the of the size, growing substrate (dead ash tree root which turns out to be a useful identifying characteristic -- I learned a lot about mycology in a short time). Plus I don't use fertilizers, herbicide, pesticides, fungicides (obviously)…
Amanita travels everywhere with wood mulch around local gardens, and is practically impossible to get rid of once established.
Stay safe, and never believe your own lying eyes when it comes to mycology. Could join a local university hosted public outreach foraging club, as the experts enjoy nothing more that spotting weird looking finds. =3
I think the more important question is: have people really run out of interesting flavors at their local stores and restaurants, that they are so obsessed with eating things they find growing on the ground? I’ll never understand mushroom culture.
There's been a spike in cases of people eating death cap mushrooms in California this year, and I would bet almost anything that LLM adoption has something to do with it.
Giving the impossibly high standards people here have for identifying a mushroom, it’s a wonder that they would eat a mushroom at all. You may not trust an LLM, but how would you even trust yourself? Who would you ever trust?
Chanterelles and false chanterelles are especially tricky. They fruit at the same time in the same areas. I have to do a 2nd pass after I have washed and dried my haul. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
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Some mushrooms like chanterelles can't be reliably farmed, and are quite tasty! I love being able to spend a day hiking and coming back with a meal.
Morels are starting to make good progress in being farmed. But, I still enjoy the hunt every spring.
Ha! I just had a very interesting conversation with ChatGPT about a mushroom that I found in my front lawn. I am 99% sure it was an edible oyster mushroom which included analysis the of the size, growing substrate (dead ash tree root which turns out to be a useful identifying characteristic -- I learned a lot about mycology in a short time). Plus I don't use fertilizers, herbicide, pesticides, fungicides (obviously)…
oysters are pretty safe
Is it possible to reliably (>99%) identify mushrooms from a single image, with any method? All image datasets have an intrinsic minimum error that comes from the limit of information in the data, regardless of what model or method you use to analyze it. You might not be able to tell apart two similar-looking mushroom species just by looking.
Chanterelles and false chanterelles are especially tricky. They fruit at the same time in the same areas. I have to do a 2nd pass after I have washed and dried my haul. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
The false chanterelle that I know is not poisonous.
The real thing is plentiful enough I don't mess with them, but I know people that regularly eat the false ones.