# How to annotate seeds

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-annotate-seeds/51154>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 5, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-annotate-seeds/51154 "2024-05-05T16:54:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dan\_johnson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dan_johnson/32/1449_2.png) [@dan\_johnson](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dan_johnson)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-annotate-seeds/51154/1 "2024-05-05T16:54:59Z")

</div>

How do I annotate an observation of a seed as such?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-annotate-seeds/51154/2 "2024-05-05T17:19:19Z")

</div>

that’s not an option for annotations (unless the seed is still on the plant) , but you could use an observation field

[https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/annotationvalues](https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/annotationvalues)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![trscavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/trscavo/32/3386_2.png) [@trscavo](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/trscavo)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-annotate-seeds/51154/3 "2024-05-05T18:11:00Z")

</div>

Yes, that’s way I do it too…if the plant is still dispersing seed, I mark it as “fruiting”. That said, I’ve had conversations with multiple people who disagree (or don’t fully agree). This is something that needs clarification, perhaps in the tooltip itself. Currently the tooltip says: “Fruit visible and still attached to the plant”.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-annotate-seeds/51154/4 "2024-07-04T18:11:15Z")

</div>

Closed on July 4, 2024, 6:11pm UTC

This topic was automatically closed 60 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.