I've been playing around with all of the Tree ID apps out there, and they all take different approaches to solving the problem of making it easy to understand "what is this tree?" I've had a few people ask me on the subway, "what is that app you're playing with?" and then last night when I was watching Master of None, episode 6 when NoëI Wells says her sharktank pitch was for Treezam...I realized that there are lots of people who, like me, were frustrated at their stunted dendrology skills. The reason Leafsnap is the best one out there is that it focuses on the most differentiated parts of trees, their leaves, flowers and fruit as a way of quickly getting you to recognize plants. Many other apps out there use photos of faraway trees e.g. Trees Pro HD, but ironically the only way I could make progress is to focus on what I can see right in front of my face rather than try to 'see the forest for the trees'. If you're good at facial recognition, this is the best approach, as the quiz helps you get to better and better levels of detail. Also browsing by "Last" is helpful for grouping similar trees.
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Master of None is great. I did wonder if there was already something like Treezam when they said that.
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