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Can anyone recommend me an app/ website for automatic moss IDing? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net to c/mosses@mander.xyz

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I often use plantnet.org for plants whenever I'm outside, and it works really really well. Sadly, not for mosses.

Is there a service out there that's specialized in mosses and similar stuff?

Because they all look the damn same for someone without experience 😭

If there isn't anything, can you recommend me other resources where I can learn it myself? What characteristics should I look out for to narrow it down to the species? The subspecies isn't that important for me :)

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think we are at technology level required for that, as well as with mushrooms.

I use this website (exploiting my ability to read in russian), it translates into English quite well with Firefox built-in tool it seems, getting funny at places, but picture guide and systematic and clean description are one of the few gems hidden in russian language-only moderately old academic literature. I struggle finding comparably good wild creature guides (especially for weird things like mushrooms and mosses) in other languages, at least for free.

[–] Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For mushrooms I use champignouf.com, which works quite well too. It only works for macroscopic ones and their fruiting bodies of course.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I'm too afraid of machines messing up in this. First time I used ChatGPT it literally tried to kill me with an explosion (chemical procedure description done obviously wrong and dangerous; fortunately I asked about something I wrote myself), and with mushroom id it's even simpler than with chemistry.