Floral formula
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
No clue what I'm doing but the flower diagrams it generates from floral formula parameters are pretty
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin...
Plant families have consistent, easily recognizable and often stable floral formulas [1], that don't change among entire tribes. Finding an interval of families to classify our sample is much easier this way, does not need expensive machines and can be done in the middle of a jungle at 1000 Km of the next laboratory. In any case floral formulas are just a small part in the whole picture.
[1] This was the master plan; and now here come the tropics with its own agenda.
It feels like a real phenomenon, there's knowledge that can be learned, and certainly has a Eureka moment once you start seeing it.
Social sciences and mathematics feel more about learning stuff other people said, and the latter more about preparing to do useful stuff. The natural science just have that undeniable factual knowledge that is transferred and my brain just accepts never to let it go, as it doesn't come from humans, it's not political, it's truth.
And it's not one of the boring subjects like geology or edafology, there's an undeniable psychic problem with talking about, sitting in a lecture listening about, looking at and thinking about rocks that plants just don't have. Ok, sorry minerals, I still don't care.
To me plants where just always green stuff, I doubt I could have even surmised a fraction of the knowledge just by observing them carefully even if I tried.
Thank Linnaeus et al
Reminds me of blazon, another image constructing DSL. I wonder if anyone collects and categorizes such little languages.
AI has exactly the same problem, when the program draws people without really understanding first what is a human. Seven fingers? not from this planet.
Floral diagrams are essentials IMO along with floral formulas to read a flower.