Please do not confuse player knowledge with character knowledge. Many players
here know how to identify some kinds of carrots, that's true. Some of them can
probably also ride a horse, build a house perform multivariable calculus,
juggle, swim, sing, titrate sulphuric acid, and belch the Belgian national
anthem. This does not mean your character, Uggo the Grunt, can do any of those
things.
It has to do with your background and training, as well as your characters.
Many characters have access to a small amount of plant lore by some guild or
another. If knowing how to ID a carrot was taht important, you'd have burned a
level to do so. If it's not important enough to cost a level, you don't get
the skill.

In addition, as a bit of a food snob, I am fully aware that the bright orange
root we call "the carrot" is but one breed of many, and even then, only a few
meager centuries old. Carrots used to be ugly gnarled brownish-rust colored
things barely distinguishable from any other plant root, that I would never
have recogznied if I hadn't deliberately studied up on it. In addition, as a
barely-above-novice outdoorsman, I know one of the rules is "never eat
anything you don't know what it is". Without more organized schooling, most
characters would be advised to do the same thing.

Shinarae Lluminus