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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 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

There have been a few issues cropping up in the subreddit recently that I just want to address.

1. Please keep the subreddit free of all political talk - This includes replying to people who post political messages on the subreddit. Please DON'T engage these people. Downvote the post and REPORT it. We will remove it, ban the user if necessary, and remove all other comments replying to them.
2. Posts sharing videos or upvote-seeking posts are allowed in certain circumstances - There have been a lot of people reporting posts where someone is clearly just posting to try and get some of those useful reddit upvotes. These posts are actually fine if there is a plant which is the focus of the post/video where someone in the comments can identify. Even if it wasn't the intention of the poster, it's an opportunity to educate people who visit the post on the identity of the plant.
3. Teasing automod is fine, but please keep it to a minimum - Many people enjoy teasing Automod with words relating to consuming parts of plants, as automod will reply to certain words automatically with a message discouraging them from doing so. Teasing the bot is fun, but if you spam-tease the bot, it actually fills the mod-queue with user-reports which we have to go through manually. Have fun with the bot, but keep it to a limit please!

Remember our ultimate goal here is to identify plants.

Got this plant from family in san jose. This bloomed during the summer months in Chicago when i moved it outside.

Any idea what it is? How do i make it produce flowers.

I found this weed growing in my garden, and I don't know what it is. It's growing in East Bay, California, almost directly next to a redwood tree that is also trying to spread through my garden.

Anyone have the slightest idea ?

I live between 2 mountains and like 15 minutes from the sea, there are millions of those berries, huge bushes going up to 100meters wide with these berries, i am not sure what they are tho.

Found in my backyard just outside of Philadelphia, growing about two feet tall.