MyShroom

MyShroom is a mushroom identification system that uses Neural Networks. Our model was based off of AlexNet, and was trained with caffe.

API Description

While you can submit an image URL to our website, you can also make calls to the /find endpoint to yield JSON results directly. Example:

$> curl "http://myshroom.ca/find?deadly=1&limit=1"
[{ "latin":"Gyromitra esculenta",
    "common": [
        "Beefsteak morel",
        "Lorchel"
    ],
    "confusedWith":[],
    "regions":[
        "Scandinavia",
        "Eastern Europe",
        "Upper Great Lakes of North America"
    ],
    "habitat":"Grows on sandy soil in temperate coniferous forest.",
    "fairyRings":false,
    "attributes":{
        "psychoactive":false,
        "poisonous":false,
        "deadly":true,
        "cap":["convex"],
        "hymenium":["irregular"],
        "sporePrint":[
            "yellow",
            "buff"
        ],
        "ecology":[
            "saprotrophic",
            "mycorrihizal"
        ]
    }
}]

The available parameters are:

Parameter	Argument	Find mushrooms that...
none	none	...match any criteria
psycho	`true` or `false`	...have psychoactive effects when eaten
poison	`true` or `false`	...are poisonous, but not necessarily deadly
deadly	`true` or `false`	...are deadly when eaten
rings	`true` or `false`	...form fairy rings
cap	See below	...have a certain cap type
hymenium	See below	...have a certain hymenium type
spores	See below	...have a certain spore print colour
ecology	See below	...grow in a certain way
region	Country / Continent name	...grow in a certain area on Earth

Notes:

0 and 1 can be used in place of false and true.
Any or all of these parameters can be mixed for specific searches.
Use limit=n, where n is a number, to limit the quantity of results.

Cap Types

conical
convex
depressed
flat
indistinct
infundibuliform
offset
umbonate

Hymenium Types

adnate
adnexed
decurrent
free
irregular
subdecurrent

Spore Print Colours

black
black-brown
brown
buff
cream
pink
reddish-brown
salmon
white
yellow

Ecologies

mycorrhizal
parasitic
saprotrophic