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

idMushroom is the first professional guide to mushrooms for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch. Contains 236 species with descriptions, key attributes and stunning photos of each. 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. We have separated the mushrooms in the database these groups: Gilled, Boletes, Chanterelles and Funnel, Morels and False Morels, Polypores with Stems, Polypores Shelf-like, Puffballs and Earthstars, Toothed, Stinkhorns, Oddities, Miniature. One way to use the program is to select a group and browse the records it contains. 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.       (memory required: 24.2MB)