A whole lot of observations are being posted from Hong Kong, probably by students. As the last time (2019?), most of the observations are from gardens, arboretums, and streets, though there are more insects, weeds, and European Tree Sparrows than I remember. If you can identify common cultivated p…

Given the influx, having this posted twice is probably not a bad thing!

I must add that even if you can’t identify the organism (and assuming it’s obviously cultivated of course), it would probably be best to mark it as such anyways.

Technically, you should mark posts of cultivated plants “cultivated” whether they’re identified or not. However, if you do that to unidentified plants, they may never be identified, or not for years. The people who post these wants a response while they’re still looking for one. Therefore, I pref…

Time flies, November again already! I learned some HK urban plants last year, let’s see if I remember…

How does one deal with observations like this? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100850600 (That user has so many that are similar). I suppose they still count as “cultivated”? Edit: God this is frustrating. Especially when I feel the plant ID’s are wrong or too ambitious but I just lack the…

I’m just mindful that there are non-cultivated plants that thrive relatively well in urban settings and I wouldn’t want to mark those as casual. Also for large trees maybe they were there for a long time so I feel its difficult to tell. I feel this is a topic that has been discussed here before but …

I wouldn’t bother too much about that, there’re users who upload each thing in 20 different observations, imo it’s a bigger problem than having one tree marked cultivated when we don’t know, most trees idn’t grow by themselves and this group is really focused on potted plants, there’s a minimal chan…

It does look like one of the schools (the only school?) submitting the observations has a forest next to it.

Can you show which project in particular? I’m from Hong Kong so I’m familiar with the overall geography.

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marina_gorbunova November 11, 2021, 5:40pm 8

Yeah, 99% of plants they post are cultivated.

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