I’m sorry for logging in just to be part of a complaint department, but I’m having trouble understanding how it is beneficial for captive plants to not be eligible for research grade observation. Almost every street tree in a parkway in Chicago, where I live, is captive. If I am trying to do a searc…

Can I move your post to this feature request? It seems the most relevant: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-captive-cultivated-not-automatically-no-id-needed/112

When captive observations are relevant

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