Flora Incognita

Flora Incognita: Plant Identification App

Flora Incognita is a plant identification app developed by the Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany. It allows users to identify plants by taking a photo of a plant's leaves, flowers or bark with their phone camera. The app then provides information about the plant species using image recognition technology.

What is Flora Incognita?

Flora Incognita is a mobile app for identifying plant species using images taken with a phone camera. It was developed by researchers at the Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany and utilizes AI and machine learning for plant recognition.

To use Flora Incognita, users simply take a photo of an unknown plant or one of its parts like leaves, flowers, fruit, stem or bark. The app then immediately searches its database of over 10,000 plant species and provides the user with information about the identified plants, including the common names, scientific names, plant family, origin and growth characteristics.

The recognition technology behind Flora Incognita has been trained on over 1 million images of different plants in various growth stages. This allows the app to accurately identify species with an impressive 95% accuracy rate for the over 10,000 plant species currently in its database. The app can identify both wild plants as well as common garden and house plants.

In addition to plant identification capabilities, Flora Incognita also includes supplemental information for many species such as medicinal usages, toxicity, and whether it is rare or protected. There are also quizzes and information to help users learn more about plants and test their knowledge.

The app has a simple, user-friendly interface and is currently available for Android and iOS devices in multiple languages including English, German, French and Spanish. The initial app download is free and comes with some basic functionality, while more advanced features require a small subscription fee.

In summary, Flora Incognita is a cutting edge plant recognition technology tool for botanists, gardeners, hikers, students, teachers or anyone curious to discover the plant species around them. Its powerful artificial intelligence allows even complete novices to easily identify unknown plants with just their phone camera.

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