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Would appreciate any species identification you can provide for any of these. I would have liked to post four photos as I have split my pics into four groups: flowers, trees, small flowers/weeds, grasses/bushes/shrubs.

Will likely post the other three images over time but I don't want to flood the forum all in one go.

I usually take photos like these when out walking as I like to pay attention to what's happening in different locations/different seasons. These photos are from a recent trip abroad - not used to finding such a variety of colour. My pics are usually of different leaves, buds, catkins and twigs - all browns, reds and greens.

I often wonder whether/what people in days gone by used the local plantlife for. Would like to increase my knowledge on this as a casual project over time. Seemingly unremarkable weeds that we see all the time and fail to consider, might have been sought after commodities in pre-historic, ancient or medieval times.

I think it was when first reading about gruit that I started to look differently upon previously overlooked verges at the side of a road etc. From there the rabbit hole deepens...

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[–] autumn@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Consider running some of these through the new plant id bot: !plantid@mander.xyz

Once you know the plants, you'll be able to look up the climate zone and make a guess from there?

[–] marv99@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is this plant id bot and how can it be used?

[–] autumn@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you create a post on that community with a photo of a plant, the bot will try to identify the plant and post the name in the comments.

It is still a very new bot so there are some oddities to be worked out, but it's been fun seeing people test it out.

[–] marv99@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

This sounds really great, thank you very much for explaining. So !plantid@mander.xyz is not only spelled like, but indeed a community (have subscribed now). Never thought of such usage of Lemmy, this are really exciting times (in technology) :)