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Better than PlantNet?
by dmos62 2mo ago
Better than PlantNet?
- sigmoid10 2mo agoPlantNet covers everything, Flora is more central Europe focused and has a hard time with non-native plants.
- iammjm 2mo agoI live next to a botanical garden which has climate-regulated glass domes with all sorts of non-native plants from around the world and it gets 90%+ of them right, but sometime you have to feed it different parts of the plant. PlantNet does look great too, I’ll have to check it out!
- sigmoid10 2mo agoThat's a nice anecdote, but I didn't just make up this fact. According to their paper [1], Flora has 4851 supported species, while PlantNet covered 30,261 at the time. Flora also tends to mix up cultivated/ornamental plants with wild counterparts, so your perceived accuracy may be deceptive if you're not a botanist. So yes, it's a cute app if you are a walking outside in central Europe, but it's nowhere near PlantNet. [1] https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13611 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041...
- Eueudhsbsj32 2mo agoLooks like they've both added a lot since then. If I select their worldwide species list in app, I get 38k for Flora and 85k for PlantNet. I just gave them a try for some common trees around Costa Rica that I'm confident in identifying, and they both did very well, slightly better than PictureThis and iNaturalist, which I've been using for a while.
- darkwater 2mo agoPlantNet seems pretty open as well right? Looks like is from several public institutions so it should be ads and trackers free, can you confirm?
- dmos62 2mo agoI don't recall running into ads, don't know about trackers. PlantNet hasn't triggered any red flags for myself.