Here is a fun challenge - Try to innovate. Make the most useful project possible. I am listing some projects that are excellent and their shortcomings too. We (I mean, who ever is interested) will attempt to make a useful (and great) innovation to use the pre-existing projects. In the end of this …

Trees of southern Africa (ID) Unknown / Trees of southern Africa (1) Unknown / Trees of southern Africa (2) Projects (1) and (2) are based on a list of taxa (taxa at different ranks, known to contain only trees) derived from the content of this list at the time these projects were created. They a…

We have one for Southern Africa (despite the name it can be used across Africa) - not convinced it makes much difference to getting an ID - but @mentioning tree people works https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-of-southern-africa-id/journal/82854-expanding-the-tree-project-regional-filters-he…

I don’t know any generic “tree” people to ask. I know people who are interested in certain groups of trees, but if I don’t know what tree it is, how do I know who to ask?

As I ID I have learnt who are the handful of people I can ask here. Who steps forward for a tree, who leaves helpful comments - why it is this sp not that one, whose profile says I love trees! Trees are hard - unless they have flowers. Or fruit. Or cones.

Oh, wait I did think of one person that I tag sometimes. I’d hate to bombard them with tags so I’ll have to come up with some other people. If was to make a project, it should be called “Trees That Need IDs”.

I’ve been sorting through plant observations stuck at high levels (phylum or class) and the number of observations of trees or their parts (leaves, twigs, etc) make up a goodly portion of them, so a project of “trees needing ID” would be a useful place to put them so tree people can easily find them…

Okay, I made it :slightly_smiling_face: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-that-need-ids and added some observations from around the world

[image] lappelbaum: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-that-need-ids That project already has 1700+ obs added to it in 4 days? That is approximately 4250 obs. added per day - congrats! That was a very nice idea.

@jeanphilippeb helped me to pull in observations from some smaller tree projects and from the Tree observation field https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields/34 It’s going to me much slower after all that since I don’t have very many members yet (6)

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aaravmishra January 25, 2026, 3:42pm 36

As long as these are you own, they are qualified.

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