I have cuttings I got from wild plants in Hawaii but someone labeled them as cultivated despite the fact that I explicitly stated they were wild cuttings. So, my question is because they are cuttings does that make them cultivated?

Sound like you’ve done your part communicating your intent, so that should count. Clearly there are multiple ways to interpret the “rules” and I think in cases of disputes the observer’s intent should be honored. Not everybody will agree - I’ve had comments when collecting caterpillars to raise the…

I know of a Homalomena cultivar growing on a roadside in the Dominican Republic, not near any houses. Undoubtedly, it originated from discarded yard trimmings, as frequently happens there. So now i guess I’ll have to start a whole new thread discussing at great length whether this counts as wild or …

Staff has noted previously that taking a wild specimen to another location (including home) to photograph is ok and counts as wild, as long as collection location and date/time are given as those where the collection occurred. The guidelines say that “your museum/herbarium specimens that are appropr…

[image] cthawley: so there shouldn’t be any wiggle room in interpretation for this type of observation. The reason we keep having threads like this is because people want wiggle room. We like increasing our species count; we don’t like our observations being casual; so we look for any way to …

If you check out the context of the post that you quote, I said that there’s no wiggle room for interpretation because observations in that scenario are definitely wild, not casual.

[image] cthawley: observations in that scenario are definitely wild, not casual. Okay… I guess I needed to post it in the “Semi-cultivated plants?” thread.

Not sure that’s why people dislike casual grade, at least from reading: Relevance of cultivated species observations What is the point of Casual Observations? I think there being only two options (captive/casual -or- wild) reinforces black-and-white, yes-or-no, right-or-wrong thinking to some deg…

Nah, it’s like making out reasons to post it, casual grades are the easiet things you can post, it’s people who post them by thousands try to justify that, your time spent on photographing lilies in your yard would be better spent on something wild living there.

Do cuttings from wild plants count as cultivated?

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Do cuttings from wild plants count as cultivated?

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