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This Schinus is naturalized in Saudi Arabia, I have seen several trees growing wildly in Saudi Arabia/ what is exactly?
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It is Schinus molle.
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Please help me identify this Potentilla species that grows in Saudi Arabia...I checked the flora of Saudi Arabia and I found only one species of which is Potentilla dentata (P. hispanica
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No, it seems to be a member of Asteraceae family.
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Looking for botanical name.
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The second plant is Albidella glandulosa (Thwaites) Lehtonen of the Alismataceae family.
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The collected plant was herb with 25cm height , found in SBR, Odisha.
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The above plant seems to be Heliotropium curassavicum L. of the Boraginaceae family.
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The leaves alternate, single, hairy, acute shape. The flowers are white cone. Could it b from the convolvulaceae family plants?The leaves can be edible.
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Aniseia martinicensis (Jacq.) Choisy is correct identification. However, the flowers in the above picture are looking unusual. It is an important Ayurvedic medicinal herb in Sri Lanka.
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Is this cayratia tenuifolia?
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No, this plant is Causonis japonica (=Cayratia japonica).
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Pedicels and calix are covered with glandular trichomes, the number of leaflets runs 21.
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Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth is also not found in Crimea.
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I photographed this plant in the garden, Romania.
Blooms from May-June to July. In July matures and appear the seeds.
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The above plant is Delphinium ajacis L. of the Ranunculaceae family. The native range of this species is Southern Europe to Western Himalaya and Central Asia. It is an introduced plant species in Romania.
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seeking help to identify this plant
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But according to the Wikipedia Pteris cretica subsp. cretica is found in Bangladesh.
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this is a new plant found by my friends in China, and I have compared with the flora of China, It seems not perfect match here.
the previous pictures I post got lots of quick and good comments. So I am very grateful and hope this species could also be identified.
Feel really bad when seeing the plants but without the name as a researcher of aquatic plants.
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I think it is Callitriche fehmedianii Majeed Kak & Javeid of the Plantaginaceae family.
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This Ardisia from limestone of Cat Ba NP, please ID
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Kindly identify these two plants.  I have found these from Himachal Pradesh, India at an altitude of 1500masl. According to me, 1st plant  belongs to Acanthaceae family and 2nd one belongs to  Fabaceae family. Kindly identify these at species level.Thank you.
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The first plant is Leptodesmia microphylla (Thunb.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi of the Fabaceae family.
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Dear experts please help me to find the sp. name
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This seems to be Amaranthus tricolor L. of the Amaranthaceae family.
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Dear Experts Please help to identify this plant?
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Dear Experts Please help to identify this plant?
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How we can use AI in plant identification and botany?
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Please don't go this way. Wouldn't you prefer to become a skilled botanist able to identify say one thousand of species basing on your knowledge and experience in field botany, taxonomical sources and your own herbarium? It's possible, and you will be esteemed as an expert. AI is designed to satisfy a lazy student and teaches how to bear no responsibility for what you retrieve from it. Would you like to go to an AI doctor with your disease, too? Would you also agree to have your publication reviewed by an AI professor of botany? My students are so "experienced" that they use AI tools for plant id and they even forget to switch the tool to the proper continent. Indeed.
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Looking for botanical name of this plant?
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Dr. Arvind is correct, it is Garcinia nigrolineata Planch. ex T.Anderson, so far recorded from Northeast India (Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura), Malaya, Myanmar and Vietnam.
May be new addition to the flora of Bangladesh, if collected from here.
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The parasite was growing on the Sonneratia apetala plant, have reddish young leaves and the mature one is green. I have found it in the Sundarban mangrove forests of Bangladesh.
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Dendrophthoe pentandra (L.) Miq. is found in Bangladesh (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:548340-1), and its young leaves, especially those in more open areas, are often reddish in colour (http://tidechaser.blogspot.com/2012/11/mistletoes-of-singapore.html).
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Habitat: Shrub
Having a strong flavor in leaf and fruit
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This plant seems to be Clausena excavata Burm.f.
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Need to know the scientific name
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This is a Connaraceae plant, Rourea minor (Gaertn.) Merr. It is found in Bangladesh.
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Can one let me know the botanical name of this tree
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Clausena heptaphylla (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn., correct identification by Dr. Arvind.
Northeast India to Malesia and Indo-China
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Looking for scientific name of this Climber
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The scientific name of this Cucurbitaceae plant is Thladiantha cordifolia (Blume) Cogn.
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It was a common plant od arid places. It is some 30 cm in diameter and some 10 cm tall. It was collected in Larnaca.
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Polygonum plebeium is not found in Cyprus. Most probably it is Polygonum aviculare L.
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The picture was taken in the Colombian Amazon. The location of the picture is around Leticia in Colombia and the fruit was hanging most probably from a vine.
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I think this Amazonian fruit belongs to Goeppertia inocephala (Kuntze) Borchs. & S.Suárez
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We have find this herb attached to a wall behind an irrigation canal in Upper Egypt, Please help me to identify it, thanks
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It could be Urospermum picroides (L.) Scop. ex F.W.Schmidt of Asteraceae family. This plant is native to Egypt.
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My best friend found this curious plant at a store in Michoacán, México. Honestly, I do not have any idea if it comes from the desert or the forest. The townsfolk could not help him. I believe it comes from the forest, but I am not sure. Does anybody know the name of it?
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It is Adromischus marianiae var. immaculatus Uitewaal of Crassulaceae family.
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this small herb find beside road of Protected area of rangmati, Bangladesh.
can any one identify this herb.
thanks in Advance. Rishad
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This plant is Staurogyne argentea Wall. of Acanthaceae family.
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Need your expert opinion about this climbers
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I think this plant is Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. which is found in India and Bangladesh.
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Please help me find the botanical name. 
Location. Kaptai, Rangamati. Bangladesh
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The above link indicates that the plant is Commiphora edulis of Burseraceae family. However, I suspect that this species is found in Bangladesh. The only species of Commiphora found in Bangladesh is Commiphora madagascariensis (=Commiphora agallocha).
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Please kindly identify the weed shown in the photo.
Is this Galinsoga parviflora (a.k.a. guasca, mielcilla, gallant soldier, potato weed)?
If this is not Galinsoga, then what?
The plant is about 6 cm tall and blooms on wall crack...
Photo was taken in Katowice, Poland, on september 2014.
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Galinsoga ciliata is synonymous to Galinsoga quadriradiata.
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Could anyone identify these Murdania
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Murdannia or Murdania ?
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Can some identify this plants for me.
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Please help,
image 3 and 4 same plant. with lime smell
image 5,6,7 are same plant. with aromatic smell
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Image 1: It is Capparis divaricata Lam. of Capparaceae family.
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I need a common name or scientific name   or group to which it belongs
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I think this is Arisaema consanguineum Schott of Araceae family.
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this plat was found in palm orchards with aromatic odeur
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It is Ambrosia maritima L. of Asteraceae family.
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Dear Expert 
Please help to identify this plants
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What is this tree? Please mention the fruit?
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It is a Achariaceae plant, Hydnocarpus venenatus Gaertn.
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A Tall Tree near about 20m long. Most probably belongs to sapindaceae family.
Can some one identify? Locally known as Olera licthu
Fruits are small and edible
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this is a shrub
it is in dry zone. combine leaves, orange bunch of fruits in August, September.
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This is a Rutaceae plant, Micromelum minutum (G.Forst.) Wight & Arn.
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The seeds were collected in autumn/winter. A pink thin shell covered the seeds. No pulp was found, the seeds are dry. The seeds were found in South Germany at the edge of the forest. Unfortunately I have no more information. I'm looking forward to any suggestions. Thank you :-)
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Hello, thank you. Interesting to see that this question is stil here. I can also confirm the suggestion. Finally, from the seeds growed Hedera.
Thank you for your help!
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Can anyone identifiy this plant? It's a Tilia europaea L.?
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It seems to me that this observation was made somewhere near the place where the herbarium specimen was collected: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131203905
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I found these seeds (photo attached) in the gizzards of Green-winged Teal (n=51), and I was hoping that someone on here could recognize them before I start diving into the seed manuals to identify them. I am not good with wetland seed identification but I'm pretty sure the second from the left in the middle row is Polygonum lapathifolium. If you have any book recommendations too please let me know, these were found in coastal North Carolina. Thanks!
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The best thing is where you find the bird, and photograph the aquatic as well as semi-aquatic plants of that waterbody the seed identification becomes much easier after that.
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Hey everyone, can anyone identify this plant? 0m altitude, Safi region, Morocco, march 2022.
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I think Anacyclus radiatus Loisel. is a good guess.
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Does anybody know this Asteraceae plant which was growing in a puddle at about 300 m asl in Liguria/Italy near Finale Ligure?
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It is Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L.Nesom of Asteraceae family.
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Between the new plant species and the plant subspecies exists narrow differences, When somebody can decide it? what are the essential elements to do it?
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What is the species? This question remained unanswered since time immemorial. Tools of classical and molecular taxonomy will remain of little help in this regard until taxonomists can provide a satisfactory "definition" not only of the basic unit of classification (i.e. the species) but also of every other rank in the hierarchy of the plant kingdom. Only then shall we know the difference between a family and a subfamily, a genus and a sub-genus, a species and a subspecies, etc.
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Would you please tell me what plant it is?
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I think this plant is Dracocephalum moldavica L.
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Need your expert opinion about this climbers
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Please check the picture.
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During my recent investigation in a montane cloud Rhododendron forest (1800m asl), I found this sponge like moss. Someone told me it's a species of carnivous moss. Yet I cannot find information about the plant. Could anyone provide scientific name to me? Thanks in advance.
Rebecca
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This plant grow in wild habitat and flowers in July and August.
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Parthenium hysterophorus
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Now a days many techniques are available on crop nutrition such as soil testing, plant testing, foliar diagnosis, soil test crop response method and colour chart method etc. Though many number of methods are available to diagnose deficiency or toxicity of nutrients either in soil or on crop plants , identification of type and level of nutrient deficiency or toxicity is difficult for recommending nutrient application. In this connection, discussion on soil mineral resource identification, nutrient release from the particular mineral and quantity of elements release my give better idea on nutrient management for agri / horti /forestry crops especially in organic agriculture.
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I would like to upload images of plants and get some identification (only name, for example). Maybe some service using Deep Learning?
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All these online services and apps are not identifying the images correctly, in 95 % cases, you have to take help of plant taxonomist.
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Is there is a researcher that can help to know the botanical name of the plant with the help of a picture?
It is a coastal area along the Arabian gulf just before the mangrove plantation. So I want to identify the plant.
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It is Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. of family Poaceae.
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I have observed among the population of Croton bonplandianus near Salem City, Tamil Nadu India with distinct yellow veined variegated leaves. What is the reason for this kind of variation in the leaves of some plants while the other populations remain green?
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