# Wild or Cultivated? How to tell

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-or-cultivated-how-to-tell/19627>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** cultivated\
**Created:** [January 22, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-or-cultivated-how-to-tell/19627 "2021-01-22T19:03:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-or-cultivated-how-to-tell/19627/35 "2021-02-22T16:38:41Z")

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Hi @DCTropics, welcome to the iNat Forum. You can review some previous discussions about this topic, as well as the staff responses here:

- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-a-third-option-for-captive-cultivated-question-unknown-or-grey-area/7361](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-a-third-option-for-captive-cultivated-question-unknown-or-grey-area/7361)
- and here [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/options-for-the-best-way-to-handle-non-established-obs-e-g-escaped-released-pets/16684](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/options-for-the-best-way-to-handle-non-established-obs-e-g-escaped-released-pets/16684)

There are quite a few other existing discussions if you search the forum with keywords like captive / cultivated / wild + grey / gray / third / establish

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