[HN Gopher] Metaflora
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       Metaflora
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2024-06-11 11:34 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (flora.metazooa.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (flora.metazooa.com)
        
       | boxed wrote:
       | I've been thinking about how to gamify my hobby site Related How?
       | (https://relatedhow.kodare.com/) for ages. I can't tell if this
       | is a good way to do it, since I am so bad at plants :P
        
         | whatsdoom wrote:
         | there's an animal version of this too: metazooa [1]
         | 
         | I used to play a few of their [2] games daily, but have fallen
         | out of the habit.
         | 
         | [1] https://metazooa.com/
         | 
         | [2] https://trainwrecklabs.com/
        
       | imzadi wrote:
       | Hey, cool. I won and learned some stuff.
        
       | ajkjk wrote:
       | Neat. But somewhat confusing that it's missing some common
       | plants. (A few I found: honeysuckle, broccoli, turnip, jalapeno,
       | kale.)
        
         | nick-of-time wrote:
         | Broccoli and kale are both _brassica oleracea_ and are included
         | under _cabbage_ (another cultivar of the species). It has
         | support for aliases though, so I don 't get why it doesn't use
         | that in this case. Broccoli is my archetypal brassica and I
         | always get hung up when it isn't there.
        
       | johtso wrote:
       | It asks me to enter a species and I can't enter Latin plant
       | names?
        
         | kseistrup wrote:
         | This was the biggest frustration for me. I knew the Latin names
         | it showed me on the right, but I didn't know the English names
         | for my guesses.
        
       | debacle wrote:
       | There are so many missing species that I spent more time hunting
       | for plants in the database than trying to deduce the mystery
       | plant.
        
       | neogodless wrote:
       | Related discussion on the animal version:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37184046 _Metazooa_
       | (metazooa.com)
       | 
       | 2023-08-19 (21 comments)
        
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