Yes you are interested in botany, you should know that there is a variety of plants that can mean a challenge. Have you ever walked through the forest or park where you did not recognize a flower, leaf or tree. What a feeling of frustration! Fortunately, you can currently download digital applications that allow plant identification.
In the world there are hundreds of species of flowers, trees, fungi and mosses. It is impossible for a fanatic to know everything.
But why would it be interesting to do so in the first place? Many like plants for beauty. Plants are decorations many times necessary in our lives and we even give them meanings by their use or by the coincidence with seasons of the year and festivals (such as the damascene on the Day of the Dead).
Their medicinal properties to make infusions, compresses or ingestion of certain plants can calm headaches, muscle aches or stomach discomfort. But, one misrecognized toxic plant it can be death for someone.
That is why this list can be so useful. Whether for decoration, out of curiosity or as a precaution, we leave you the 3 best apps to identify plants (free and in Spanish most).
The 3 best digital applications to identify plants
1. TreeApp
ArbolApp is a application aimed at identifying trees. This Spanish app was expressly designed for scientific dissemination by the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Royal Botanical Garden.
Also due to its origin, this digital application only contemplate wild species of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), about 143 species. Perhaps that is why this application is one of the few of its kind that does not use photos to identify the specimens.
has two forms of identification with which you can do it for open or guided search. In the open search you enter the characteristics of the plant you discovered (location, shape of the leaves or flowers, etc.), while in the guided search the app asks you a series of questions to gradually identify the specimen. a plus, you don't need internet connection to use the app
- you can find free in google play and the app store.
2. Unknown Flora
This app is aimed especially at the identification of wild flowers. Developed by botanical scientists and engineers. Unknown Flora, It achieves the identification of the specimens through photographs and through its artificial intelligence it guides.
At the same time, indicate from which angle of the flower you can take the photos and which of the 4,800 species is compatible with the image. That is each time faster because the application shares the results of the users and has more and more files to compare.
- You can find free at google play Y app store.
3.PlantNET
PlantNET was designed by French organizations dedicated to botany and presumes to be able to identify any plant by a photo. Just as there are applications that use audio recognition software for songs, this app does it with images.
Likewise, you can use images from your gallery or the internet directly and when it goes to the base of the files it becomes bigger and bigger. In this collaborative way, the application can recognize more and more species. And finally it is also one of the applications that recognizes the most natural diversity by geographical areas.
- You can find free at google play.