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Flora Incognita, a free plant identification app for Android and iOS, developed by a German university, does that. You choose a category first, like "tree", "f
by _Microft 5y ago
Flora Incognita, a free plant identification app for Android and iOS, developed by a German university, does that.
You choose a category first, like "tree", "flower", "grass" or "fern" and it will guide you through the process, trying to identify the plant with as few photos as necessary. Common ones it will identify from a single image, for others, it will e.g. prompt to take a close-up photo of the bark, bloom or the complete plant in its environment. From what I understand, they are aiming for accuracy of the identification and will provide a description of possibly matching plants if there is still ambiguity. Very recommended!
Edit: here is a link if it sounds interesting: https://floraincognita.com https://floraincognita.com
- swader999 5y agoThis will bolster my fantasy of living off the land like the savage I want to be.
- ewokone 5y agoThanks for pointing out!
- nend 5y agoI've been using an app called PlantNet that works similarly. Upload a photo, tell the app which part of the plant is in the photo (leaf, flower, fruit, bark), and it'll tell you what the plant is. Highly recommended as well, almost always identifies the plant with just one photo. I'll have to check out flora incognita sometime.
- ogrisel 5y agoplantnet works very well. I have also used Google Lens (the magic button on Google Photos on Android) but I have the subjective feeling that plantnet works more reliably for plant identification.
- bwanab 5y agoI’ve been amazed at how well PlantNet works. It’s identified a number of invasive species in my yard that I’d otherwise have remained ignorant of.
- kortex 5y agoThis app is phenomenal! So far it's picked up everything I've thrown at it. Can't say that of the other two plant ID apps I've tried before. I think it uses geocoding to some extent - it asked for my location (which is fine by me) but it required a leaf, fruit, and bark pic to figure out Northern Catalpa, which isn't common around here. Everything else has been leaf and maybe a fruit or whole plant pic.
- leo_bloom 5y agoFunny enough, I only get a 403 Forbidden error when opening that website. And I am located in Germany with a German IP. Though my server at Hetzner (also in Germany) has no problem retrieving contents from that domain.
- ahhhndi 5y agoTo much traffic from HN for that small shared webspace :)
- mobilemidget 5y agoOne of these things I think of when I do garden things, "I bet there is an app for this" but typically as soon as I have left the garden I forget all about it. I have installed the app now for the next time I am gardening :) Thanks