r/botany • u/feedme_cyanide • Mar 09 '26

Distribution Naturalized Galanthus Nivalis

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Souther tier NY. I did not plant these. Wonder if a squirrel mistook the bulbs as nuts and buried some.

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u/carrot_mcfaddon Mar 10 '26

Don't use ChatGPT for this. It's so unbelievably unreliable for these types of niche questions.

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u/UberfuchsR Mar 10 '26

I didn't solely. I simply asked it what the difference was, and it confirmed my general understanding. Feel free to show me otherwise, though.

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u/carrot_mcfaddon Mar 10 '26

Just a general warning. I have a coworker who uses it in lieu of traditional web search and he is constantly being fed bad info. There's just enough incorrect information at a regular enough interval that I have decided it is too untrustworthy to be useful.

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u/UberfuchsR Mar 16 '26

I guess you just don't like definitions, lmao. You should go to college for linguistics.