Leafsnap

Here is an application for nature lovers But lovers with a little knowledge of botany. Leafsnap helps to recognize leaves, trunks, fruits”¦ and other tree components This applicationit is only available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Its purpose is that users learn to identify trees by recognizing their leaves, fruits or flowers .

Leafsnap born from an initiative of the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian Its database belongs to the cities of New York and Washington DC, although very soon it intends to extend to the entire continental territory of United States The fact that it does not contain information about our territory does not make it less interesting. Leafsnap can be a great source of knowledge. The most striking thing about it is that it has a system that can recognize leaves thanks to a photograph.

The user can search in this application for leaves, fruits and flowers that are in their database. To view the information for a particular tree, the tree can be searched in the list or its name can be entered. If it is in the database, you can access all its information. You can see the top and underside of the leaves, their fruits, the bark of the tree, the stems”¦ each photograph can be enlarged enough to not lose any detailIf desired, these can be saved on the device

For the application to identify a sheet, click on Snap it!. Then will be done a photograph of it. Leafsnap recognizes those that are in its database. It also has four mini games To play them it is recommended to have done a lot of research in the application and have an already a more or less high level. The games consist of recognizing photographs of leaves, fruits or flowers and guessing their correct name.