Seed Identification project- notes

[Maggi Young]

There is already existing, of course, this thread :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6490.0  which was called "germinating now" but which I have re-named to make it clear that photos of seedlings are more than welcome   

A start  to your project, Trond!

[Hoy]

OK, I'll bring my camera along when I inspect my seedpots! Hope the names are correct then

[Maggi Young]

Hope the names are correct then

It will be a chance to find that out, for all of us!

[Maggi Young]

Tim Ingram has today contributed a fine selection of  seed pix - thanks Tim!

656 pictures so far..... .... only about 4500  to go before we have a really useful  number of them-  if you are collecting seed for the SRGC Seed Exchange, for any of the other Exchanges, of just for your own use- if you can, please take a photo of those  for which you are confident of the naming - on  graph paper of a known size, or alongside a metric ruler, to show the scale of the seeds.  Save these as a file under 200kb, ( and approx 750 x 600 pixels in size)  name the picture with the name of the plant and post them to the Seeds to Scale pages : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4426.msg283843#msg283843

[Maggi Young]

David Pilling, who contributed  this article to the PBS site : http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/PhotographingSeeds      and built the machine:
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/PhotographingSeedsTwo  ...... has been adding some seed photos-  thanks, David.

When seed arrives from the various seed exchanges or merchants, how about taking time to photograph the seeds for this Seed ID   project? http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4426.0

Or, as the seedlings grow, what about pictures of the developing plants for the  Germinating Now thread? http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6490.0

With a little work from forumists we can add greatly to this resource........

[ashley]

When seed arrives from the various seed exchanges or merchants, how about taking time to photograph the seeds for this Seed ID   project? http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4426.0

Or, as the seedlings grow, what about pictures of the developing plants for the  Germinating Now thread? http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6490.0

With a little work from forumists we can add greatly to this resource........

Mistakes can happen in the exchanges Maggi, so might it not be better to restrict these excellent databases to seeds/seedlings from plants that have been identified?

[Maggi Young]

Yes of course, Ashley - and that is stated in the beginning of the Seeds to scale  thread-  I was rather hoping that folks might already have read that and be going with pix of seed of which they were sure.

'Seed Identification : photos of named seed varieties.


This topic is exclusively for posting photographs of named, fully identified, seeds.
The object  is to work towards as full a listing of verified seeds as possible. '   

[Rick R.]

And may I add my yearly plea for germination information in the Germinating Now thread.

  Gotta love the photos, but they mean so much more with some "how to" commentary!

[Susan Band]

Another great site for pictures of seed is http://www.hazmac.biz/seedhome.html
Susan

[Diane Whitehead]

I just discovered a website with good photos of seeds of Korean plants:

http://www.seedbank.re.kr/list.php

[Maggi Young]

Amazing pictures of seed - as art really!


http://www.inspirationgreen.com/seeds.html

http://www.robkesseler.co.uk/

[Maggi Young]

The International Society for Seed Science  may be of interest to some of you.

They also have a links page :   http://seedscisoc.org/useful-links/

[Maggi Young]

A reminder about the site Diane mentioned -  Yann has found it interesting too:
http://www.seedbank.re.kr/detail.php?seed=1469.1

[Maggi Young]

From Stephen Barstow's blog page :

"Seed seed and more seed"
216 pictures of seed mostly collected in my garden during autumn/ winter 2014-2015:
http://s304.photobucket.com/user/stevil2008_photo/library/Facebook/Seedy%20Autumn%202014

Previously posted on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.barstow.7/media_set?set=a.10152657183550860.1073742196.655215859&type=3


 Seed not shown with a scale measurement- but very interesting nonetheless.

[Maggi Young]

Continuing thanks to those kind people sending pix of seed types - much appreciated.
I feel that these pix can be  of interest simply as items of beauty , quite apart from their usefulness in ID.