The Pickfungi app is an essential tool for all mushroom lovers, from beginners to experienced pickers. Designed to make your outings in the forest more productive and organized, this application allows you to track and document your discoveries simply and efficiently. In addition, it offers detailed information sheets to help you identify and better understand each mushroom you encounter.
Main features:
1) Management of Collection Points
- Creation of a collection point: Easily add the name of the mushroom you found and keep precise track of the date of each discovery to organize your future outings. Save the exact location of your discovery so you can return to it later using the geolocation function. Add specific comments and notes about each collection location, such as environmental conditions or special observations.
- Editing a collection point: Edit the details of each collection point to update the information based on new findings or corrections. Delete collection points that are no longer relevant or in case of error, keeping your personal database clean and organized.
- Local Storage: All recorded data is stored directly on your phone. This ensures maximum privacy and instant access to your information.
- Interactive Map: View all your collection points on an interactive map. This feature allows you to easily see where you found your mushrooms and plan your next outings based on your previous discoveries.
- Point Details: Click on each point on the map to see recorded details, including mushroom name, collection date and your notes.
2) Description of mushrooms
- Common and Scientific Name: Learn the scientific name as well as common names of each species for more accurate identification.
- Seasonality: Identify discovery months easily using the calendar.
- Edibility: Find out if a mushroom is edible or toxic.
- Abundance: Find out about the abundance of mushrooms in nature.
- Lifestyle: Understand the living conditions and favorite habitats of mushrooms.
- Possible Confusions: Learn about the species with which a mushroom can be confused to avoid mistakes.
- Tips: Receive useful tips on collecting and eating mushrooms. Learn to recognize them thanks to precise descriptions of their hat, their foot, their flesh, their smell and their flavor.
Additional Information :
All information and descriptions of mushrooms in this application were written by me. They are based on numerous books and guides on mushrooms as well as recent mycology articles. They are also the result of a compilation of exchanges between amateurs and knowledgeable mycologists during field trips.
Precautions:
Before consuming any mushroom, make sure you are absolutely certain of your picking. If in doubt, it is better to throw away your harvest to avoid any risk of poisoning.
This app is the perfect companion for all mushroom pickers. By offering you robust tools to record, manage and visualize your collection points, as well as detailed sheets to identify and know each mushroom, it transforms each outing into a well-documented and enriching experience. Whether you are looking for rare mushrooms or simply want to optimize your outings, this application is designed to support you at every stage of your forest adventure.
Happy picking everyone!