Mission: Impossible - Identify Plantae in Africa

I felt bad bumping all these old ones from @jtklein app, but that’s what they were there for…

In the process I started figuring out a few of the Burkina Faso plants, like the shea tree that is a frequent obs. Also, Combretum fruit shape is easy to spot and looks like a big 3D elm seed (botanists, is that generalizable to the genus across Africa?). I’ll round up some examples for the M:I project in the next couple days.

Related to figuring out trees, Side Mission: Annotate! lol. Fruits and flowers are probably going to be the easiest starting point to recognize in iNat photos. So helping to basically pool some obs for others to look at, even if you’re at the " just dicot" level, can help speed the id process. Edit: Same mission as @annkatrinrose has been on. ;)

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