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title: "Planta’s identification feature has become pretty much useless. It is…"
description: "Planta’s identification feature has become pretty much useless. It is many times not even close. For fun, I used it for what should be a very easy…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/2OB1JXZXRQeo4spB0EojrA/sotJUNzvJlqbttz8t1bkVO"
community: "Plant Identification"
author: "Phil"
published: "2025-10-18T05:15:00.401791Z"
language: "en"
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# Planta’s identification feature has become pretty much useless. It is…

_Posted by Phil on 2025-10-18_

Planta’s identification feature has become pretty much useless. It is many times not even close. For fun, I used it for what should be a very easy identification. Even tried several different photos. Every attempt came up with Eve’s Needle Cactus. The only similarity is they are cacti. I knew this was a Boobie Cactus but just had to try one more time. Am I in the minority with poor identification from the app? I use Google lens or some other AI search now.

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## 3 comments

### Wolfen 🐺 commented on 2025-10-18

I tried using it a few times, but same thing, even some very distinct species, it was getting incorrect. Hopefully they can tune it to being more accurate

### Plants are friends commented on 2026-05-05

Same for me. Am using the plant identification when I take a pic of a plant. It’s been more reliable and if it’s not sure it will show multiple plants that it could be and has pictures of the plant with its name

### The Clod commented on 2026-06-23

I use PictureThis to ID plants, has always been super accurate for me

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