A new database of leaves promise not only to help identify plants around us, but also to identify plants known only from fossils.
Tag - plant ID
Dale Maylea
Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?
It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is increasingly termed “plant blindness”. Recent research has identified links between...
Karen L Bacon
Julie Peacock
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
Ian Street
Don’t ignore the ‘orphans’!
The FAO has launched a ‘traditional crop of the month’ site to generate more appreciation of the nutritional – and often medical – benefits of food plants.
Nigel Chaffey
A blooming disgrace…?
Is Bloom's Taxonomy responsible for the severe decline in UK students' knowledge of field biology skills?
Answer: Not Lamarck(!)
OK, that’s the answer, what was the question? Who invented the dichotomous key for identification? Well, as anybody who has taught students about keys and their use as tools for plant ID (or even for animals if you must...
Barcode Wales
No, this has nothing to do with whales (they’re fish-like denizens of the deep, and has probably already been done by some countries under the guise of ‘scientific whaling’ anyway…). Nor is it a strange and unusual...
