The pictorial guide to mushrooms of North America for the Apple iPhone

Go mushrooming! And take our convenient mushroom reference with you.         This app will help you separate what's edible from what's regretable.           Look up the different types of mushrooms when you find them. idMushroom includes photos and descriptions for 236 of the most common mushrooms found in North America. Gathering mushrooms in the wild, typically for eating, is popular in much of North America - especially on the West Coast and in the Northwest and Appalachian regions.       Several mushroom species are favored for eating by mushroom hunters. Among the most popular are: king boletes, chanterelles, morels, and oyster mushrooms. Most of these are relatively easy to identify by anyone with practice. Only experts should collect dangerous species, such as Amanita, which include some of the most toxic mushrooms in existence, and which can be easily misidentified.       There is no question that if you are going to enjoy mushrooming, you need to know what the different kinds of mushrooms look like. Field guides can be hard to use and frustrating - especially in the field. It's time for something more convenient - the digital guide to mushrooms is here. Now you can quickly find accurate descriptions, key features, beautiful photos, and edibility information about most of the mushrooms you will encounter - at your fingertips - in your Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch. No internet connection is necessary. The sophisticated database of idMushroom places all the information, including the photo library, inside the iDevice. idMushroom Browser is the first professional pictorial guide to mushrooms for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. It combines excellent images from a team of photographers with state-of-the-art programming concepts and a beautiful graphic interface that's smart and easy to use. You can simply enjoy viewing the photographs, or use them for visual reference when you need to identify a mushroom. A short description and key feature list for the mushroom is included for each photograph.       The user interface is simple to use yet powerful. Beginning mushroomers as well as expert mycologists can rapidly find photos of common mushrooms without special knowledge of mycology or scientific jargon. Users can quickly list mushrooms by categories such as: group, common name, scientific name, toxicity, or edibility. A general search tool is also supplied which allows one to quickly find a mushroom by entering the scientific or common name.       Each mushroom is described with a list of attributes such as group, color, size, habitat, season, and odor. A thumbnail picture of the mushroom is also displayed as well as its scientific and common names. A textual description of the mushroom written in layman's terms is included along with an indicator for edibility.       We believe our photo collection is unsurpassed. To see a large version of a mushroom photo simply tap the "+" below the photo on the return screen. You can enlarge the full-screen photo by tapping the display to show an enlarged version. The enlarged size photo can be scrolled to see details of a mushroom. idMushroom includes photos and descriptions for 236 of the most common mushrooms found in North America. If you like mushrooms, we know you will enjoy this useful and beautiful program.