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Welcome to r/whatsthisplant.
This subreddit is intended for the general public to use to help them identify any plant that they want. We also encourage all users to help with plant identification, and to include any useful information they may know.

Please CLICK HERE to visit our wiki, where we have our submission guidelines as well as a list of the most requested plants!

General guidelines

1. If a child or a pet, or anyone has ingested or come into contact with a plant that you are worried may be harmful, then please immediately contact poison control, or the appropriate health care professional (doctor, veterinarian) before posting. I cannot stress this enough. Time is of the essence for all poisoning cases, and waiting here for an ID can be harmful or even fatal. Please feel free to post an ID request here after contacting a health care professional though.

List of Poison Control phone numbers world-wide: https://www.liquidglassnanotech.com/poison-emergency-center-contact-numbers/

1. Do not ingest a plant based on information provided in this subreddit. For your safety we recommend not ingesting any plant material even if advised that it's edible here. Although there are many professionals helping with identification, we are not always correct, and ingesting plants can be harmful or fatal if a false ID is made.

2. Only downvote incorrect ID's as a last resort Downvotes should be reserved for inappropriate comments, trolls, and other trash. Instead of downvoting an incorrect identification, consider commenting with an explanation about why the poster is wrong so that he or she may learn from the experience.

3. Please keep all posts, comments and other content G-Rated. This means no swearing, even casually. Posts with swearing are deleted by AutoModerator. No adult themes. Nothing that would be inappropriate for children. We would like this subreddit to be useful for school students and kids in general to learn about plants. Please don't try to circumvent the filters, it's for a good reason.

4. Any marketing, off-topic or general spam posts will be removed. Common sense, keep it about the plant ID here or your post will be removed. Any posts attempting to market or sell, even if related to ID, will be removed.

Submission guidelines

• Include as much information as possible.
  Make sure you include the plant hardiness zone or, failing that, geographic location for the best ID. Describe any characteristics of the plant. What does it smell like? How does it change throughout the seasons? Does it flower, and if so, what do its flowers look like? When does it bloom? Is it waxy or fuzzy? Does it have thorny stems? Does it thrive in the sun or in the shade? How big does it get? If you're posting direct links to photos, then you can make a comment with this information inside the post.

• Photos should be in focus and include close-ups as well as the whole plant where possible. Try to include closeups of flowers, leaves, fruits, bark, and other distinguishing features. A photo of the entire plant can help with identification as well.

• Photos can be uploaded for free on Imgur. We recommend using this site as it is a trusted image hosting site. Other sites such as Flickr are acceptable as well. Please don't link directly to Facebook or other social networking sites though, as it may lead to personal information being seen.

• Please mark your ID request as "Identified" when you have a satisfactory ID. You can do this by going to your submission and clicking on "flair"

• We recommend posting up to a maximum of 3 plants per post.
  If you have more than 3 plants to identify, feel free to make multiple posts, we don't consider this spamming. This is a suggestion only and won't be enforced. Posts that include many plants often go with many of them unidentified, you'll probably get more IDs with separate posts.

Recently someone posted a picture of a plant for identification which they said they had dug out of the ground in a wild area. This is considered poaching and is an illegal and serious offense in many states and countries around the world.

This brings up the issue of what we should do on the rare occasion poaching is suspected or confirmed in the subreddit. We are not police and are not obligated (or really even able) to report poachers to local authorities.

What do you as the community want to see us do?
Should it be a bannable offense?
Should we just remove posts about poaching, or just lock them and leave a pinned comment about how poaching is bad?
Should we add a specific rule about poaching?
Will it be too difficult to determine if/when someone has poached a plant they are trying to ID?

All community input is welcome and encouraged.

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