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Identification game

Discussion in 'Gardening Discussions' started by Cuttings, Jun 27, 2020.

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  1. Cuttings

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    What makes you say that, just would like your opinion, as to your comment, no right or wrong, just interested in your assumption/comment
     
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    The reason I am interested is, the plant is Rafflesia Arnoldii, the rarest plant in the world, a plant that smells like rotting flesh, so they say, its only grown in remote pockets of Indonesia, so either you are a world renowned Horticulturalist, or your cheating:love30::love30::yahoo::psnp:
     
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      @Cuttings Could you please share what app that is, thanks.
       
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      @Cuttings The Curcuma I knew straight away as I bought one a few years ago in Birkenhead market! I used to buy in Ipomoeas from Ball, for hanging baskets for Weymouth Parks Dept, had the yellow ones too.
      I don't have any 'apps' just a (fading/failing) memory.:smile:
       
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        I have never seen it even though I worked in Indonesia for a while :biggrin:

        It is often in the news though as the world's biggest flower and only knew it as the Corpse flower because of the terrible smell. I thought somewhere in london got one to flower recently but could be mistaken.
         
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          I have an Ipomoea 'Blackie' but for some reason don't have a pic of it blooming but will take one soon. Also had a Curcuma Siam.

          Blackie.png

          Curcuma Siam1.jpg
           
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            I think one was guarded behind netting when I last went to Kew.
            Not in flower but seed.
             
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              Oh @Cuttings I thought the plant was a stapelia - same sort of flower. Didn't think anyone would have a rafflesia!
               
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              As for the apps, I have been told this week that they are pretty poor for native wildflowers, so you just have to key them out, and when I tried using one at work, it was great for australasian/south african plants but less good at the more 'normal' herbaceous border things. Probably because its machine learning had been trained on those countries due to the company producing it.
               
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              Dont know what its called, but a couple of my customers use it, and its very good, I will ask them next time they are in.
               
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                He he, good company ball colgrave, fading memory my doodah, if you are not using an app, great memory I say
                 
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                The one that one of my customers was using, she took a photo of the leaf, and ding, it came back Parahebe snow clouds, so I got her to take a photo of a hd photo of a plant, then ding it came back Cytisus Battandieri, correct both times, it even had a care guide, for each plant.
                 
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                  Last time I tried an ID App it was pretty bad, that was after someone on the forum recommend one maybe two years. They must have improved.
                   
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                  Gosh @Cuttings - better performance than I ever saw
                   
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