New Wildflower section

Equinox and site organisers,
Love the new section on wildflowers as it has so much potential for like minded adventurers. Read the newsletter mail as well looking for clues to my query before posting this.
The geo referencing suggestion sounds great s it would be so helpful to rank amateurs such as my wife and myself.
Wondering if it is a good idea to allow folks to place a pic of a flower which we can not I.D. from even State authorities, give a Geo reference and see how others go at giving an I.D.
Cheers - Mobi

Hi Alan

Thank you very much for the feedback, and I'm sure that David too will welcome your comments. David has put a great amount of work into getting this up and running (Thank you David), and hopefully it will become another popular and useful part of EO.

The mapping /location function is still coming, and as others start to contribute info there will most likely be some tweaking that needs to be done. For location, David will most likely use the IBRA bioregions, but you may have other suggestions. It doesn't seem like a good idea to locate some species too exactly, but we also want to try to show the range of widespread genera.

Can it include all flora? - yes it can. There is already a lichen in there to test that idea. There is an "other" box to check for flower colour. Naming might be more of an issue, but there is no reason why all the other non flowering interesting plant things should not be included.

Ideally it would be good if others were able to edit, especially to add names where these are not known to the poster. Currently this type of information can be fed back through the comments/discussion section, and I will add and edit as required. I certainly make no claim to great identification or naming expertise, especially down to species level, so I am certainly hoping that others will be able to assist. In the meantime people should not be afraid to use "Unknown" in the mandatory boxes (or any other boxes), but the more info people can add to their posting the better.

The idea of doing something similar for fauna and geology should work, and its another area of interest to many travellers. I don't know if David ever sleeps but its a good idea that he may be able to incorporate when the wildflowers section is all working smoothly.

What would be great now is for as many people as possible to post some entries to give the system a really good test, and to build up the list. Ideally start from scratch, make a whole new entry for each different plant for which you have a decent photo. I'm really looking forward to seeing posts from Stephen and all the other contributors to wildflower blogs and forum posts.

Cheers,

Val

I like it, although flowers are not my thing. I'm more interested in the animals. Reptiles in particular, with the Raptors coming in a close second. Probably a big ask, but what about a section on animals? Quite often we see a post asking what (insert animal family) is this.

Top effort John and Val, David and Michelle.

I'll add a few images over the next week or so, as I get a bit of time shortly.

Cheers.