Whether you’re a novice backyard gardener, curious hiker or cautious forager, chances are you’ve encountered a plant and had absolutely no idea what it was, how to take care of it, or if you can eat ...

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Pl@ntNet is a participatory science project accessible in the form of a plant identification application based on your photos and an A.I. trained to recognize them. Over 73,000 plant species are ...

Smartphone apps that identify plants from photographs can be as little as 4 per cent accurate, which could put people foraging for food at risk and also lead to endangered plants being mislabelled as ...