Are the standards of what is considered cultivated different from captive?

[swampster]

Many threads discussing almost this exact thing. To name just a handful:

Cultivated when on restored site?
Casual vs. Restorative
Are restored ecosystems wild or cultivated?
When is a plant no longer considered “cultivated?”

@chickeroni

How do we determine which individuals are even cultivated or not?

@tiwane

Just use your best judgement, that’s all any of us can do for situations like this that might be unclear.

@tiwane

I think these discussions often get bogged down by edge cases [that] are not particularly helpful, IMO.

The captive/cultivated or wild/not wild part of the DQA is there to separate the vast majority of observations that can clearly be marked one way or the other, and I think it works fine for that.

So if you know it’s cultivated (regardless of it’s native status or the length of time it’s been surviving), it should be marked as such. Otherwise, don’t loose sleep over it.