Can anyone recommend me an app/ website for automatic moss IDing?
Can anyone recommend me an app/ website for automatic moss IDing?
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 :)
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.
For mushrooms I use champignouf.com, which works quite well too. It only works for macroscopic ones and their fruiting bodies of course.
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.