Sunday 3 May 2020

PlantNet

Limber up your green phalanges by pointing a camera at any flower, foilage, plant, tree, bark and fruit and this wonderful PlantNet app will tell you what it is and gives you advice on how to grow it. I give this app a 9/10 because it identified 9 out of the 10 plants correctly. I scanned a picture of my mother just to see what would happen and a picture of Cerastium  (Snow in Summer) popped up.

Waitrose's finest. Mammillaria Gracilis also known as the ‘Thimble Cactus’.

One it got wrong. It thought my Easter flowering cactus was a fuchsia. This is the same plant I had forgot to bring indoors one winter, it survived the Beast from the East, it got me thinking can these be planted outside? I might try it.

This was the mysterious bulb I found lying in the gutter, opposite the Yorkshire Trading Company in Driffield, it must have rolled out of a ripped bag from their outdoor display, I took it home and planted it up, and a month or so later it started to shoot, it has been identified as a Eucomis, Pineapple Lily.
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  1. Jon3 May 2020 at 20:34

    We don't have phones that have "apps" or such new-fangled ideas. However if we did I'm sure I could have fun pointing it at complete strangers to find out if they are indeed related to a Dead Horse Arum or Deadly Nightshade. Love the "mystery" bulb - Eucomis are lovely. Ours haven't even sprouted yet... Jx

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    1. Mitzi 4 May 2020 at 19:03

      I scanned my maid of all work Carmen and she's come up as a Ginkgo biloba tree.

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    2. Jon4 May 2020 at 19:11

      Incredibly ancient, "often tall and slender, and sparsely branched; the crown becomes broader as it ages."

      Apparently.

      Jx

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    3. Mitzi 5 May 2020 at 14:10

      Spot on except for the slender bit.

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  2. mrpeenee4 May 2020 at 20:57

    I've seen Eucomis, they seem to do well here. I think they look like dildos.

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    1. Mitzi 5 May 2020 at 14:17

      It's been over a month for me too, everything is dildoesque.

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  3. Ms Scarlet5 May 2020 at 17:27

    Please show us a picture of your mother - at least she didn't show up as the Thimble Cactus.
    Sx

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    1. Mitzi 6 May 2020 at 20:09

      She'll do her nut if I put her on the internet. She has a look of a youngish June Whitfield, same white hair.

      I called round the other morning to the retirement village where she lives with some groceries and I was quite shocked by her appearance, her normally bouffant hairdo was completely flat to her head, she wasn't wearing an ounce of make-up and she had a strange, vacant look in her eyes, I found out by my mother's neighbour, who I also shop for, that they have been taking it in turns hosting illicit get togethers in each others flats til the early hours and they were all hung over.

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  4. Inexplicable DeVice5 May 2020 at 20:03

    I've taken my Eucomis out of the greenhouse now - and even put the the seedlings out. They're sitting on the paysho, I mean: the lanai.

    I think I'd quickly become all consumed by that plantnet app. Fortunately, like Jon's, my phone is too old and clunky now to cope with such things.

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    1. Mitzi 6 May 2020 at 20:12

      I had my heart set on it being a Calla lily, I'm not sure if I like them, we'll see when it flowers.

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    2. Mitzi 6 May 2020 at 20:13

      "Paysho" hark at Crystal Carrington!

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    3. Inexplicable DeVice14 May 2020 at 08:26

      I'm sorry, I can't hear you. My hair flicks (and shoulder pads) are blocking the sound.

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  5. The Mistress9 May 2020 at 00:03

    Is there an App that will identify mysterious spots on my body in much the same manner? Not that I need it.

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    1. Mitzi 9 May 2020 at 23:58

      Yes there are lots of them, including an app that detects dodgy moles. You might have an allergy, have you changed your soap/shower gel or your washing detergent? Don't google your ailments whatever you do, it'll frighten you to death.

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