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TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org to Biodiversity@mander.xyz · 12 days ago

Can someone please identify this plant ??

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Can someone please identify this plant ??

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TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org to Biodiversity@mander.xyz · 12 days ago
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    Malabar is far from here, but the vegetation over here resembles that of Malabar.

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      Do you know about iNaturalist? It is a wonderful community of people that are just like you asking what a certain organism is and then helping each other identify these organisms. You could upload your pictures there, too. However, you’d have to also have a rough location and also take some extra pictures of the plants. There are hundreds if not thousands of plant species that look a bit like what I can see here. So taking better pictures of different parts of a plant really helps.

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        No, l don’t know about inaturalist.

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          Here is the website: https://inaturalist.org/

          You can make an account and start uploading pictures of whatever organism you like, be it a plant, fungus, animal, etc. There is a pretty good computer vision model that can give you automatic suggestions. But the true value lies in other people identifying your observations and sharing their knowledge.

          If you want to upload photos, please read the following tutorial first :) https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000192921-how-to-make-an-observation

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            I went through the website. I realised one thing, that inaturalist is neither open source in principle nor in spirit.

            Being a native lndian, this is one of my primary concerns : https://www.richhariyafoundation.org/post/seed-treaty-biopiracy-of-india-s-indigenous-seeds-by-united-nations-un

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              How is iNaturalist not open source? They’ve got their code openly published and everyone is welcome to use their dataset. You can write some code and use their API, it’s pretty easy to get started.

              https://github.com/inaturalist

              I don’t get what your link has got to do with an online platform like iNaturalist. Biopiracy definitely is an important issue in general, but what is the point you’re trying to make here? If you don’t want to use iNaturalist, fine. But you don’t need to come up with nonsensical excuses…

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                I’m sorry l misunderstood the site. Are you associated with it ?? Over here, we need to carefully guard agriculture related activities from the clutches of the bureaucracy and the legislature. Are you aware how the farmers in our country had forced the parliament to repeal the farm related laws that they had made ???

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                  I’m not related with it, they only have a staff of about 20 people. But it is a citizen science project, so in a way everyone actively using the site is related to it.

                  No, I don’t know a lot about local Indian politics. But I know from other countries about how export of living organisms is often a contested subject.

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                    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/indian-pm-narendra-modi-to-repeal-farm-laws-after-year-of-protests

                    This is to give you a very brief idea of the historic event in our country.

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