In order to provide something useful as well as abstractly satisfying this goal, the representation has been used to create a species listing program. That is a program for recording the species that you collect during a foray, fair or other mushroom related event. This program is called Name and is available for downloading at:
Documentation is available at:
The latest database is available at:
It currently only works under MacOS on PowerPC machines. It also
has a long list of desired features that is included in the documentation.
The included database is based on the list of names given in David Arora's
Mushrooms Demystified, but has been extended and corrected to the best
of my ability. What this means is that any name listed in Arora will
be in
the database, but it will be mapped to my best understanding of the
scientifically correct name.
Name is an open source project using the standard GNU Public License. The source code for the program is available at:
As with any open source project this is not a finished work, but an on-going work in progress. In keeping with the open source traditions I am "releasing early". I hope to be able to also "release often", and sincerely hope that others will join in the development.
I welcome any sort of feedback including bug reports, feature requests,
even recommendations on the priority of known issues. Most welcome
are any name changes or additions, and software development energy.
If you are motivated to put significant energy into either of the last
two, please contact me first so we coordinate your work so it can be easily
integrated with the existing project.
Last Modified: September 26, 2000