I came across a vase of flowers posted as an observation of Eustoma grandiflora (aka exaltatum). I guess it is a prank. Is there anything that can be done about this?
Mark it as captive/cultivated? If there’s origin information and notes describing the reason for it being in a vase, it could still be wild. I think a bit of humor is sometimes okay in observations:
Maybe add it to these projects too, if applicable:
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I don’t see anything pranking about, just an observation of captive flowers, mark it as so.
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People post cut flowers, boutonnieres, etc. They don’t get that iNaturalist is for wild things. Just mark it “captive/cultivated” or “not wild” and move on to the next observation.
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Yup, captive/cultivated. If it is a new user, you could also copy/paste one of the canned responses to let them know that iNaturalist is primarily for observations of wild species. Florist bouquets are pretty straight forward cases for cultivated - it gets trickier if the flower in the vase is native to the location and possibly picked in the wild and taken home for further study/ID (also see this thread for more discussion on that).
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