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by Dylanfm 1817 days ago
Lovely project.

Something that jumped out to me as I browsed around Edinburgh is the app highlighting Japanese Knotweed as a "very rare" tree. It's actually a very invasive species that's almost impossible to get rid of.

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Maybe rare in database. As example Vigeland park in Oslo, there is tree row with similar trees but one has typo som is marked as rare.
Yep, the definition of "rare" is literally how many instances of that exact species name in the database. You can have extremely common trees marked as "rare" if they are rarely planted in urban contexts.
Is not a tree and is a huge headache, yep. It depends on the location. What is normal for Europe can be a economical sink hole in US.