The Scientific Research Council (CSIC) has created a mobile application called "Funginote" which helps identify mushrooms in the field.
This application is available on iOS - but later also be on Android - and the download is free this November. The app brings together 150 species, with photographs and features.
Autumn is mushroom season, and the woods are filled with fans or mycologists in its search. In order to help you know what type of fungus is found, whether it is edible or poisonous and where to find, the National Research Council (CSIC) has created a mobile application through the Royal Botanical Gardens.
The app is called FungiNote and November for downloading will be free only for devices with IOS operating system. The application initially has a database of 150 species of fungi, which will be extended with regular updates, as reported by the CSIC.
Each specie has a tab with a reference photo, name, conservation status, geographical distribution or whether it is edible or not. In some cases, illustrations have been introduced in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as explained the researcher of the CSIC Royal Botanic Gardens, Maria Paz Martin.
Users can search the fungus found in the database with the help of search filters, introducing one or more characteristics that match the description of the species. These filters analyze the morphology, the season and the habitat where the fungus has been found and the information provided funds the Royal Botanic Gardens, the application selects species sheets with the most likely outcomes.
In addition to identifying the fungus sighted, FungiNote can know all the information on the issue: their different names, the etymology of the taxonomy, conservation status, geographical distribution, curiosities and whether it is edible or not, among other data.
"Mycology enthusiasts can have all this information quickly and easily, but remember that this is reference information for the identification of fungi is not intended to be a guide for human consumption. If in doubt about the toxicity of a copy is recommended not collect it or ingest it", adds Martin.
In addition to the query function, FungiNote allows you to create a custom field notebook to write down the findings, locations, dates and include photos of yourself.
"This custom file can be kept private or, if you want, shared online with other users of the application. This application seeks to strengthen the social aspect of this hobby, and invites mycologists to share and discuss their own findings and those of others with the whole community of fans", concludes the researcher.
"This initiative fulfills one of the goals that has raised the CSIC for next years: bring the company to the lab and back to promote products to be obtained that can reach society. This new technology also will continue to implement the result of ongoing work among the CSIC and the company ", says the researcher Alicia Castro.
The application has been developed by the Spanish company Wake App! In the development of content and reference images have helped members of the Catalan Society of Mycology and the Mycological Society of Madrid.
If you want to make Mycological Tourism, these are the places in Spain where you can find more and better quality mushrooms:
Barcelona: Escape to the region of Berguedá for a journey through the woods Puigventós Pla.
Zamora: One of the best places in Spain to look for mushrooms is Rabanales, where you can also find the most documented Mycological Museum of the country.
Lleida: Visit a Pyrenean region near the valley of Aran, The High Ribagorça, will not disappoint you.
Navarre: You will can do the Unzúe route of 11 kilometers, with a big variety of different mushroom species.
Huesca: Interestingly the Echo Valley. The best places to find specimens are Aragüés Valley Port, Gabardito area, the Valley of the Hospital and Selva de Oza.
La Rioja: There are two municipalities with mycological tradition: Ezcaray and Igea. We also recommend you, as places with mycological attraction: Torre en Cameros, Zarzosa, Munilla Villaroya and Aguilar del Río Alhama.
Madrid: The Sierra de Madrid has some forests full of mushrooms, such as Pinewoods Llanos, Fuenfría and Lozoya.
Malaga: Visit the Natural Park Sierra de las Nieves, one of the best places to look for mushrooms in Andalusia. You can find 400 species, although some of them are highly poisonous.Watch out!.
Soria: Approach Forests of San Leonardo and Navaleno. Moreover, the latter has a center from which are organized Mycological routes around all weekend.
Well, I hope that everything of this can help you and I also hope that you like to search mushrooms and you come to Spain, in orther to search in any good place.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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