Dear friends Identification with photographs is often difficult if members don't give exact sizes of parts, and the size could always confuse depending upon the degree of zooming. I request members to always provide sizes of important parts like leaf, flower, fruit, pedicel, bract, etc. I know several non-botanists would find it difficult to do so, but every member can easily place a scale adjacent to or below the object (scale or any object which can give reasonable guess of size: tip of pen, coin, finger, palm, nails, lines between finger digits, etc). In fact any thing which can give idea about approximate size would do. Some members also tend to upload photographs taken from different plants to complete the upload. This can lead (and has often led) to confusion, because what the member thinks to be the same plant could be two different species, and this can easily create confusion for the experts. I would as such request members to preserve the original serial number of the photograph (it can be appended at the end of whatever file number member chooses to give). This can give the expert a fairly good idea about whether photographs belong to the same or different plants. We also can get exact time of photography. This can also help in critical cases.
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