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I'm compiling images of nepenthes species to use in training a neural network on identifying them. I've been using web scraping to compile images, but they are proving to be poor quality. I've been doing it by hand and it's a slow process. I'm asking for help with putting good quality pictures together in one place.


Please donate pictures of the nepenthes species in your collections and post them here. If you have location information or clone information, please include that as well. I've attached pictures of the species in my collection just for fun, but also as an example of what I'm looking for. Get as close to the 'classic' pitcher picture as you can for consistency. The tool is intended for cultivated plants, so this is desired. If it's a horticultural cross, please include the parentage.

I don't plan on doing anything with the images except having them sit in my file system so I can train a model off of them. Tom's carnivores website has a similar tool (although it's currently offline), I'm aiming for something like that. Thanks!

Hey, I regularly post pics of my plants to my Instagram, usually a series of pics of the plant and always include the species/cross in the description. @king.karnivores

A lot of other growers do the same, you would probably have pretty good luck going through Instagram and asking them for permission to use their pics.
Not sure if such tools exist but you might be able to scrape Instagram profiles to get the pics easily.

This isn't a bad idea - I don't use Instagram but you're right, there's probably a lot of posts on there with ID. I'll look into that, it's probably possible to get a batch of accounts that post pictures and get some pictures from them

Rafflesiana