Hostas 4+

The app is too dependent on light and angle and many hostess will appear slightly different in different growing conditions. It just doesn’t work. On the same plant, it can identify it as different hostas depending on where you focus (single leaf vs whole plant,) or even what part of the plant you look at. It failed on the overwhelming majority of varieties I tried and I have dozens. It failed on Striptease, Guacamole, Stained Glass, Sagae, Lakeside Paisley Print, Blue Angel, Paul’s Glory and many more. It did, however, work on Brother Stefan and Earth Angel.

Wish this actually worked! This is a great concept, but it just doesn’t work most of the time. I pointed this at Hostas I know, and it usually identified it wrong. One review stated it depends on light, angle etc., but I found it is just wrong. It even identified a non variegated Hosta as a variegated one!?!?

Now, what is kind of cool is it’s “catalogue” of hosta pictures. It is possible to scroll through those pictures to find ones that look like your Hosta. Now I will say that some of the pictured plants have on name on them that I think is wrong.

Please keep working on this. Lots of Hosta collectors will love it. Perhaps if in included categories of descriptions of the plants characteristics.

It gave me the same wrong option for most any hosta even when I knew it was something else. When two options were suggested for a just purchased plant with tags on both were wrong. I have a minimum of 40 varieties but don’t know them all and was hoping this app would help but it’s just frustrating. If it at least came close I would be willing to research further.