I’ve read several other threads on this topic, and I understand it’s a contentious issue. But the particular case I’m interested in seems to be confounded by several policies that are difficult to reconcile. The case in hand: we are studying a plant with separate male and female individuals, which …

One solution or workaround would be a similar project like the one I created for Multiple Life Stages .

I think you’ve laid out your options well. I will note that posting pictures of different individuals of a species in one observation is ok (I wouldn’t say it is incorrect per se), it can just cause some issues - one of which you’ve identified here. There’s an existing and open discussion around an…

Yes, I’ve read some of that thread. But at 520 posts and counting, it’s a bit unwieldy to participate in that conversation! Hence the new thread.

This exact theme was also discussed, you can annotate any specimen that you see on all photos, choose one you like the most.

Sure, but in this case I’d like to have the observation show up in both a list of male plants and a list of female plants. If I pick one or the other, I lose half the value.

You lose everything if you annotate nothing, without duplication it’s not possible.

You could download the observation data and duplicate the ones you want to annotate as both in that dataset. Or you could start a project on the species and use journal posts to educate users about what you want them to record. Some will be interested, others not.

If you go this route, it would probably be better to make a custom observation field, similar to the ones for multiple life stages ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields?utf8=✓&q=multiple+life+stages&commit=Search ) created by @ncb1221 - I don’t see any existing similar fields for multiple s…

The advantage of that thread is that it is monitored by staff and suggestions there may be used in future iterations of the annotation system.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you will come back here and post it. I would also like to track sex in plants; if you decide, for example, to create a custom observation field, I would use yours, rather than creating yet another similar observation field.

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