I am literally begging the identifiers out there: please mark observations as cultivated while you are identifying them. I identify lots of conifers, and I have marked thousands of research grade plants cultivated. It is usually very clear too as most are in lawns, garden beds, obvious plantations,…

There should be some sort of system to “nominate” a species (such as the conifers mentioned in the original post) as being automatically assumed cultivated for a given state. It is unreasonable to expect people to clean up the 1,000s of observations in this manner. Whatever system there currently i…

what you’re suggesting effectively already exists: The system can also automatically render an observation Casual grade: if there are at least 10 other observations of a genus or lower in the smallest county-, state-, or country-equivalent place that contains this observation and 80% or more of th…

Yes, I am aware that a system exists. What I’m saying is the current system is insufficient as is, as demonstrated by people having to manually mark 1,000s of individual identifications beforehand (like the original poster does with gymnosperms). Instead, we need a system where species can be nomin…

[image] sedgequeen: I do mark observations “Cultivated” if they have rea I am afraid I find this faintly ridiculous. Most of the countryside in the UK is managed. Miles of roadside and fieldside hedges are planted. Many of the rivers in Essex have willow planted along them. Sometimes these oc…

[image] ItsMeLucy: Could it be that when they fall, the juice and meat from the coconuts is used to “feed the seed”? Yes. The meat and juice are endosperm – food for the baby plant, initiated during the “double fertilization” characteristic of flowering plants.

[image] this-meander: I am afraid I find this faintly ridiculous. Most of the countryside in the UK is managed. Miles of roadside and fieldside hedges are planted. Many of the rivers in Essex have willow planted along them. Sometimes these occured decades and perhaps centuries ago. Where do you …

[image] sedgequeen: some of those plants came up on their own Also, some plants are only cultivated in their early years. When an area was scheduled to be leveled for highway construction, my father would go out before the bulldozers rolled in and dig up saplings of species that struck his f…

[image] sedgequeen: Theoretically, it’s great to mark observations of cultivated plants as Cultivated! However, if we do that before the observation gets a reasonably good ID it probably never will, because it will go to Casual, a cesspit few of us have the nerve to explore. This is a problem fo…

I respect your position. I wish iNaturalist would change how it deals with cultivated plants so that I felt I could consistently comply with it.

Considering iNaturalist is intended for the observation of wild organisms, I think it would make more sense to automatically mark all the observations of observers with high rates of captive observations captive / cultivated by default.

PSA - Please mark observations cultivated while ID'ing

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Yes. The meat and juice are endosperm – food for the baby plant, initiated during the “double fertilization” characteristic of flowering plants.

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PSA - Please mark observations cultivated while ID'ing

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