Metaflora

How to play

1. 01

   Guess a plant

   Choose a plant from the search suggestions to start building the tree.

2. 02

   See what's shared

   Each guess reveals the ancestry it shares with the answer, narrowing it down by taxonomic rank, such as phylum, class and order.

3. 03

   Follow the branch

   Choose another species within the most promising branch and keep narrowing.

4. 04

   Solve in few guesses

   Try to find today's plant in as few guesses as you can.

Good to know

• 25 guesses. There's one Mystery Plant per day and you get 25 guesses to find it.
• Relationships, not looks. The clues follow evolutionary relationships, not which species looks most similar.
• One species, many vegetables. Broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts are all varieties of one species, Brassica oleracea, which appears in the game as cabbage.
• There's an animal version. The same team makes Metazooa, the original game about the animal kingdom.