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For a nice way to start discovering plants around you I recommend the excellent iNaturalist app/site: See a plant, snap a photo and the app will suggest what it thinks it is. Other users can help with identification if the app fails.

Besides beeing a kind of nerdy pokemon go (how many organisms can you collect?) it's also crowd-sourced science.

My latest catch is this guy: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina




The iPhone photos app does something similar if you take a photo of a plant and click the “i” info button.


What's fun of I naturalist is that with someone confirming your ID (or two others agreeing) your observation is included in a variety of databases used by researchers. It's fun to help out in a low key way.




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