KC Kam, to be honest most of us cannot describe how to identify a plant. We have seen enough that we recognize them the same way we recognize a person. That is to say we use our gut and experience.
That said, even experienced growers cant truely identify species correctly. Especially not with all the hybrids out there. We lean very heavily on the tags to tell us what is what. Its to the extent that a lot of us wont buy a plant if it does not have a tag, because we know that we can never truely know what the plant is.
If you were identifying plants in nature things a little easier because you have context clues like habitat and location, but it is still very difficult to be confident in your ID.
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