What is your favorite taxa to id?

I enjoy plants filtered locally, but I would say my favorite is when someone has nice photos of a tree/shrub in winter and I have no idea what it is and spend time trying to figure it out. The first time this happened it took me three or four hours to figure out what plant it was, if you’ve never knowingly seen a young eastern cottonwood it can be surprising how different they look, especially in winter;

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