What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Today we're talking about technology? Yeah, we are we're talking about plant identification apps. This is something that I've only recently messed around with a little bit.

To be honest, I'm such a technological person, but I haven't really delved into the apps that

much for plants.

So if you have anything you'd like to recommend, definitely let know but I'm going to cover a couple of these plant recognition apps that are out there these days

So first one's going to be called Plantifier. It's a free app. It is crowd sourced and when you upload a photo to it the users of the My

Garden.org community will try to recognize the photo as soon as possible. So certainly give that a try.

The next one is called Leaf Snap.

So this one uses visual recognition software

to help identify tree species just by photographing their

leaves which is a pretty cool, pretty cool technique, pretty cool feature and it

currently includes trees of the Northeastern United States in Canada and it's going to include trees of the entire

continental United States pretty soon. It is iOS only right now. Next one, flower

checker. It is a paid plant identification service.

So you have to take a picture of an unknown plant

or moss or lichen or even a fungi.

And then you can get it identified by the international team

of experts that they have.

So the team's going to respond as soon as possible,

but identification usually takes several minutes or hours,

and they claim they can identify more than 90% of plants.

So I don't know, give that a try if you... they can identify more than 90% of plants.

So I don't know, give that a try if you are looking for some expert help.

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