A new smartphone app called Pl@ntNet gives users the ability to snap a picture of unknown flora and upload it to a crowdsourced database of over 100,000 images that provides suggestions as to what ...

Pl@ntNet is a participatory science project in the form of a photo-based plant identification app. Over 73,000 plant species are identified, accompanied by over 1 billion images. The application is ...

The list is increasing as more users contribute images and information to the database. Pl@ntNet is available for iPhone and Android devices. Learn more about the app here.

With Pl@ntNet, a plant identifier app, you can simply snap a picture of the plant in question and find out the answer. The best photos zoom in on one part of the plant: perhaps its leaves, a ...

Plant Snap identified 35.7 per cent of flowers correctly and 17.1 per cent of leaves. The highest accuracy was achieved by Pl@ntNet at 88.2 per cent.