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    Has anyone come across plant identifier apps? I've just downloaded one called Plant Snap but haven't got round to using it in anger yet... just wondered if anyone uses them?

    [and I have no affiliation with the app, others of which may be available!]
     
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    I use plant snap and find it good with run of the mill plants. It did identify Bower vine for me which isn't a plant I'd come across before. I was given some 'climber' seeds and that's all the description I had. Luckily one of the plants flowered plant snap identified it correctly.

    It tends to struggle with succulents
     
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      When going round a garden a few years ago we met someone who had an app on their phone. We tested it on about a dozen plants and it only got one wrong. I have no idea what the app was.
       
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      might take a trip to wisley and give it a whirl :)
       
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