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🌱 Plant Individual Types

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Plant records at Yuyo are classified by how a plant or plant population occurs and is managed. These categories help us record plants consistently and will also be used for location, maintenance and harvest documentation.

🌳 Individual

A single plant that can reasonably be identified and managed as one individual.

Examples: a mango tree, a cacao tree, or a single planted shrub.

🌱 Group

Several shoots or stems that belong to one vegetatively connected plant unit. All parts of the group must belong to the same species and variety or cultivar.

Example: a group of banana pseudostems growing from the same rhizome.

Neighboring plants of different varieties must not be combined into one group. For example, Mini bananas and Red bananas growing next to each other are separate records.

🌿 Patch

A spatially coherent stand of several plants of the same species and variety that are recorded and managed together rather than as separate individuals.

Examples: a planted patch of malanga, katuk or pineapple growing close together.

Unlike a Group, the plants do not need to be parts of one vegetatively connected plant unit.

🪴 Potted

A plant or plant unit growing in a pot or another movable container rather than directly in the ground.

🌾 Wild / Naturalized

A naturally occurring or self-spreading plant population that is not managed as a defined Individual, Group or Patch.

It may have established naturally or have been deliberately introduced. For example, seeds of a nitrogen-fixing ground cover may be broadcast over an area and subsequently allowed to establish and spread.

The important distinction is therefore not whether humans originally introduced the plant, but whether the population is managed as a clearly defined plant unit.

🔎 Which type should I choose?

  • One identifiable plant? → Individual
  • Vegetatively connected stems or shoots? → Group
  • Several nearby plants managed as one defined stand? → Patch
  • Growing in a movable container? → Potted
  • Naturally occurring or self-spreading population not managed as a defined plant unit? → Wild / Naturalized
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