Phenology Flowers and Fruits Annotation Option Missing

Bug Reports
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Platform: Web

App version number, if a mobile app issue:

Browser, if a website issue: Safari 18.5

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322496011

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322496009

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

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Description of problem:

Step 1: Add a new or view an existing Class Pinopsida (Conifers) observation by any user.

Step 2: Annotations section does not have the option for Flowers or Fruits, just Leaves and Sex. Flowers and Fruits is also not an option for any Conifer charts.

Step 3:

2

since these plants don’t produce true flower / fruits, it seems intentional to not provide an annotation for flowers / fruits. doesn’t seem like a bug.

3

I figured there had to be a technical reason for that. I know lots of people are tracking frugivory for migratory birds, and the Juniper berries I saw this week in New Mexico seemed like a really important one to annotate.

4

Conifer cones are not considered flowers, fruits, or seeds by iNaturalist.

5

it would be interesting if they generalized flowering / fruiting into something like “reproductive phase”, with subcategories of flowering, fruiting, cone development, sporophyte, gametophyte, etc… could be a feature request?

6

It would be nice to have some kind of annotation for conifers. Feeling pretty embarrassed about reporting a bug for it.

7

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627

We would like cones. It is first on the list. Back to March 2019

8

Junipers and other conifers do not produce flowers or berries, but they do produce seeds, and that should be annotatable. So should cones.