Virginia Tech Tree ID
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About Virginia Tech Tree ID
Virginia Tech Tree Identification brings the award winning Virginia Tech digital dendrology material to your Android smart phone. It contains fact sheets for 969 woody plants from all over North America with an in depth description, range map and thousands of color images of leaves, flowers, fruit, twigs, bark and form.
Users can narrow the species list for any location in North America using the phone's GPS, network signal or any entered address or zip code. Basically the application can become “Woody Plants of Where You Are Standing”. For example, it can become the “Woody Plants of Southwestern Oregon” , the “Woody Plants of Central Park” or the or “The Woody Plants of 37.108 lat., -80.452 long., elevation 2118”.
Users can further narrow the species list by answering a series of very simple tree attribute questions such as where the plant is growing, leaf shape, leaf arrangement, flower color or fruit type.
The species list can also be narrowed by typing a keyword such as oak, Abies, red or palm. For example if oak is typed only oaks found in the defined area will be listed.
A feature also allows you to send any tree related question to “Dr. Dendro”, a tree expert in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. You can send a tree description or pictures of your plant and experts will help with identification.
KEY FEATURES
• 969 woody plants from all over North America
• Over 6,400 color photographs of leaves, flowers, fruit, twig, bark, form, and range map for each species
• In depth description of all plant parts
• Narrows species list based on your location and elevation using the phones GPS, network signal or user entered location
• Search for species by a key word, e.g. maple
• Identify species by answering a series of simple questions. A picture is displayed showing what is being asked.
• Navigate between species with a push of a button.
• Send a tree question to “Dr. Dendro” a tree expert at Virginia Tech
VIRGINIA TECH TREE IDENTIFICATION DIGITAL MATERIAL
Visit our web sites at: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu
Woody Plants in North America, 2012, Kendall/Hunt Publishing is a multimedia tutorial on DVD covering 920 woody plants with over 23,000 color photographs of leaves (summer and fall), flowers, fruits, twigs,
bark and form for each plant. The software displays multiple images of all plant parts so user can develop a “feel” for normal field variation. A customizable, self-quizzing section allows users to evaluate their progress in plant identification. For more features on this software visit: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/wpina.htm
NOTES
The 650 MB database of tree photographs and text is downloaded from our server. We recommend you install Virginia Tech Tree Identification using a fast WIFI connection. A cellular connection will generally be too slow.
Text and photography by John R. Seiler, John A. Peterson Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech and Ed Jensen, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University
Programming by Robert Potts
Technical support by Andrew Meeks
Users can narrow the species list for any location in North America using the phone's GPS, network signal or any entered address or zip code. Basically the application can become “Woody Plants of Where You Are Standing”. For example, it can become the “Woody Plants of Southwestern Oregon” , the “Woody Plants of Central Park” or the or “The Woody Plants of 37.108 lat., -80.452 long., elevation 2118”.
Users can further narrow the species list by answering a series of very simple tree attribute questions such as where the plant is growing, leaf shape, leaf arrangement, flower color or fruit type.
The species list can also be narrowed by typing a keyword such as oak, Abies, red or palm. For example if oak is typed only oaks found in the defined area will be listed.
A feature also allows you to send any tree related question to “Dr. Dendro”, a tree expert in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. You can send a tree description or pictures of your plant and experts will help with identification.
KEY FEATURES
• 969 woody plants from all over North America
• Over 6,400 color photographs of leaves, flowers, fruit, twig, bark, form, and range map for each species
• In depth description of all plant parts
• Narrows species list based on your location and elevation using the phones GPS, network signal or user entered location
• Search for species by a key word, e.g. maple
• Identify species by answering a series of simple questions. A picture is displayed showing what is being asked.
• Navigate between species with a push of a button.
• Send a tree question to “Dr. Dendro” a tree expert at Virginia Tech
VIRGINIA TECH TREE IDENTIFICATION DIGITAL MATERIAL
Visit our web sites at: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu
Woody Plants in North America, 2012, Kendall/Hunt Publishing is a multimedia tutorial on DVD covering 920 woody plants with over 23,000 color photographs of leaves (summer and fall), flowers, fruits, twigs,
bark and form for each plant. The software displays multiple images of all plant parts so user can develop a “feel” for normal field variation. A customizable, self-quizzing section allows users to evaluate their progress in plant identification. For more features on this software visit: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/wpina.htm
NOTES
The 650 MB database of tree photographs and text is downloaded from our server. We recommend you install Virginia Tech Tree Identification using a fast WIFI connection. A cellular connection will generally be too slow.
Text and photography by John R. Seiler, John A. Peterson Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech and Ed Jensen, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University
Programming by Robert Potts
Technical support by Andrew Meeks
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What are users saying about Virginia Tech Tree ID
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Nice list of trees in my area, with good photos. But not useful as a field guide because you have to know the name of the tree to look it up.
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This is an awesome app. It may take a while to download all of the datasheets, but its worth it if you find yourself without service. The only suggestion I have is that the user should have the option of turnning the "area" off. There have been trees and shrubs that I know are in my area, but the app states there are "0 trees in your area". Just my two cents worth.
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Succinct descriptions and clear photos. "Decision tree" structure enables you to narrow species by location, appearance, etc. Best if you can download the databases to your phone. Otherwise, you may be dependent on a non-existent cell signal out in the woods.
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Used to be good. Now all the links are broken and doesn't work.
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Gives lots of great info on trees and shrubs around the areas. Awesome and extremely useful. Great field reference.
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Couldn't get anything to download. Kept getting error message.
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Crashes everytime I attempt to add location.
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Excellent. Just enough information and pictures to get a general description of the plant. One of the best plant dbase ive used.
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This app is handy, interesting and easy to use.
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Excellent for the Traveller. I use it everywhere I go.
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Excellent resource
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Worthless
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Awesome
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Huge variety of trees, detailed descriptions and multiple photos per tree and a map of where it's found.
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living in california ive noticed the app just has the most common trees an srubs.. theres quite a bit of trees the app is missing like the silk oak an scrub oak for example....
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Useful to narrow possibilities based on zip code and match leaf shape. For free it is worth it.
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A "Tree" app with "Bug" fixes! Gotta love it! Maybe it should be called Tree Pesticide Database. Hee hee!
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Great app!
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Application works fine if data saved to device but shows 0 trees in all circumstances if saved to SD card even though download process proceeds fine. Problem is that this is a lot of data for device memory. I suspect that app doesn't know how to deal with new Android memory protocols.
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Here's some tips for people having problems: finding plants by keying them out can be difficult because you may not have all the parts of the tree on hand. If you know what your tree may be I suggest displaying all trees and typing the type of tree into the search box.(i.e. if you know you are looking at an oak, filter the trees to oak and look within those results.) to display all trees you have to set the app to ignore location and display all trees. This will show you all of the 969 trees in the app.
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Good app, wish they would make the search pics bigger
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I don't rate apps often, but this app is great. Plenty of photos to aid identification and easy to use. Love this app. I also love how you can d/load the database on wifi & no data is needed after that. After all the forests aren't well known for their reception. This helped me id trees even in winter with no leaves.
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The app works great and seems to be a pretty complete list for my area. My only suggestion would be to add a feature that would allow you to delete all the trees not within your area. The photos in this app takes up a huge chunk of your phones memory; if you could add a "delete trees not within my location" button, I would appreciate it. Thanks again for a great app.
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Great app, it would be even better if the fact sheets were completely indexed for searching. Also the ability to filter out trees based on bark and less on the buds, you can't always get to new growth on a large tree.
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Better than some websites, but doing pretty poor at finding things. One kind of palm (plus there bushes), no orange trees. Perhaps they're not native. But would still love to see more plants :-)
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I must be doing something wrong. I follow directions which is pretty straight forward and I get 0 species all the time. Help.
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Terrific app, database is fast and complete. I would only ask that each species description include its specific Growth Rate Factor, so that, after measuring a particular tree in the field, an estimate of its age could be determined. I really love the outdoors, hiking the woods, enjoying the plant and animal life -- this app should be very useful as well as fun.
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Crashed when I attempt to download data sheets. Displays 0 trees when I search by location. I like the idea for this, but just not working for me.
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Great app. Works better and doesn't need the net to find a tree. Id love it if i could add trees i like to a favorite and have my own list.
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Says no trees regularly found in my area. I live in a forest -_-
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Thank you for creating this. It's a field guide on hand, and I think it will greatly help my studying in dendrology.
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Great app for the outdoors lover like myself. Issue is it keeps crashing.
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Filled my phone with useless junk worst app ever
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Amazingly detailed. Nothing else comes close.
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The identify feature doesnt always work, however the localized info is wonderful, and sufficient enough to figure it out yourself.
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Wish I thought to look for this sooner!
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Terrible
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OK I like it
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Exactly what I was looking for! Great app!
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Very good for what I've used it for, brushing up on tree identification. Has a comprehensive list of species in my area (Shenandoah Valley of Virginia), it's a great resource for me to have in the mountains and forests here to quickly identify species and lookalikes.