Oct '24 • General discussion
PictureThis
PictureThis is an app I use incredibly often. It has a yearly subscription for $29.99 and it helps me discover new plants all the time. All you do is take a picture and it goes to work. Recently I made a stupid mistake in the first hour of the first day on a 5 day hike. I saw a plant that looked like it would be a kind of young spruce or fir. I picked it and rubbed it between my fingers hoping for a blast of that fresh piney scent. Nothing… it smelled vaguely plantish. I was intrigued and pulled out the PictureThis app and took a picture. Introducing Cypress Spurge, a plant that could have rocked my world. As soon as I had read the description I set about washing the crap out of my hands with some of the water I had in a spare bottle followed by rinsing them in a stream I crossed a little while later. I waited for the irritation to ensue but apparently got enough of it off to not be an issue. The app isn’t very helpful with uses of the plant for food or medicine but for identification and safety it’s something I rely on pretty heavily.
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