I’m fairly new to iNat and don’t have much formal experience in ID’ing. I’ve posted a lot of things and this may just be some minor newbie anxiety talking, but I am sort of worried about posting “too many” different observations without really being able to contribute much to actual identification. …

[image] adrien_ferrand: Naturally this is very different than the limited and discreet uproot to learn/study that is being commented in this forum, nobody here is insinuating to systematically seek to destroy “bad fungi”. But it feels such a shame in some popular trails to see the broken mushroo…

[image] LichenLiminalis: Do people in the community tend to get frustrated when there are too many unidentified observations dumped into the app? Welcome! Speaking purely for myself, I don’t get annoyed at Unknowns (unless it’s multiple organisms in the photo with no guidance about what we’r…

Post as much as you’d like! You never know which data points will be useful. I’ve posted over 10k observations now and I don’t know how to ID maybe 70% of them to a species level (bugs are hard, mushrooms seem harder). On iNat we have heavy observers and heavy identifiers, and then the mad lads on h…

While I do acknowledge that humans often curious children will disturb mushrooms and leave them “unsightly”. We are not too different from the rest of nature. Sometimes I am out in places where I know I am the first person to step foot in an area within a few days. There are fresh mushrooms uproote…

I uproot mushrooms to take better pictures of the gills and the collar, but my rule is to only do it if there are several mushrooms together (and doing it ony to one).

I don’t uproot mushrooms. Here I found three (IIRR) mushrooms and photographed the one it was easiest to see the underside of. I don’t know mushrooms well. If it looks like a mushroom, whether it has gills or sponge, I type “mushr” and select Agaricomycetes. Any other fungus I just put in Fungi, un…

As others have said here, better information makes it easier to ID. An important part of that is making sure you provide as many clear photos it takes to get the observation as close as possible to accurate ID. Also, remember that some plants have several parts in one “patch” but may still just on…

[image] LichenLiminalis: I mostly post mushrooms I pass mushrooms on for IDs - except lichen. @lothlin has a good post about how to ID mushrooms (somewhere on iNat ?)

thanks for these sugggestions, it’s hard to choose a good guide when personal experience is limited.

Coming back to the original post, I wanted to mention another thing that I have done without much scientific or id knowledge (but some local knowledge): I add common names on my language (Spanish) when they are not present in iNat. Here a tutorial for it, if you are interested: https://forum.inatura…

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