It is considered wild

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I’ve looked around and I haven’t found a specific answer to this one although there is a long trhead about the cultivated/not cultivated distinction.

My question is at my workplace there are several planters with common cultivated plants but for the first time there was a little mushroom growing out of the soil. Would this be considered a wild obs? it wasn’t planted so yes? but the medium and possible distribution is heavily influenced. (for reference the plants have been there for years with no new soil, a travesty I know.)

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Yes, it’s wild. The habitat might be human-made, but humans didn’t cause or intend that specific mushroom to be there.

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Just noting that encouraging an organism to be somewhere doesn’t necessarily make it not-wild on iNat. For examples, birds (or rodents!) at a bird feeder or moths at a moth light are considered wild on iNat.

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Good point, I was thinking of e.g. a volunteer plant which someone then starts taking care of. But “encourage” was an ambiguous word choice!

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All good!

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Thank you all.
Also I realize encourage was vague now that I look back, if I only had the foresight.

I guess what I meant by encourage was for a hypothetical situation and doesn’t need to muck things up anyways.

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