As others have pointed out, annotating plants as female just because they are in fruit is botanically incorrect. Please do not add such annotations, and please reverse any that you have added. The binary choice of male and female, when applied to plants, refers to the condition of being dioecious, having male and female flowers on separate plants. Then and only then would the annotation be appropriate.
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Seconding the please! :) I and many others often use mobile upload, and need to add phenology later, which just adds a step in the process thatās easy to forget (as mentioned in a few places above).
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Agreed that this would be very useful. I want to annotate all my observations with this information, but trying to auto-convert from Observation Fields is a mess (1 out of 3 fields I just filled out populated a corresponding annotation).
I think many more beginning users would utilize annotations if they were prompted upon uploading. For some annotations this may effect the quality of uploads, eg. male/female for plants, but phenology would be incredibly updated. Itās not as hard to tell if something is flowering or fruiting. Having these annotated on mass would be a great improvement to iNaturalist.
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Male and female annotations for plants are messed up. Because the default is offered for all plants - including the ones where the annotations apply - and it would be good if we could rely on them being correctly applied.
Rather do a taxon sweep later - by someone who knows what they are doing.
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Iām all for this feature - I am usually too lazy and hate adding annotations to my observations after I upload them.
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Hi, this is also my first time posting in this forum and I also thought something like this would be an excellent way to increase annotations on iNat. I usually observe plants, and information in the annotations such as whether the plant is flowering, producing fruit, etc. can be very useful data.
In my opinion, determining whether a plant is producing buds, flowers, or fruits is rather trivial (and much easier than IDing) for most taxa (maybe except for graminoids or some very unusual species), but it appears to be rarely done for a lot of plant observations. My guess would be that it is not that the users who upload the observations are unable to determine whether the plant is blooming or not, but rather the current system in place for annotation is rather inconvenient, making users reluctant to annotate all of their observations.
I believe that implementing a feature like this (allowing annotations to occure as you upload an observation) will drastically increase the number of annotations made on observations as it is much faster and more convenient as opposed to going back to every single one of your observations afterwards and annotating it. I hope this gets implemented as a feature in the future and that there is a rise in the number of new observations being annotated.
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