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r/whatsthisplant

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

1.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.6K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.8Mmembers
5.6Kbest post
377most comments
310posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

50% 38% 9%
Gallery 50% Image 38% Link 9% Text 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Unidentified 🤷‍♂️ 243 Identified ✔ 65 Unidentified 🤷‍♂️ in zone 7a 1 Identified ✔ Porcelain berry (invasive) 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What's this flower that looks like a duck?

↑ 5.6K 💬 77 gallery 2026

I inherited this cacti from my grandparents. It is older than me.

↑ 4K 💬 69 gallery 2026

Tree with avocado shaped fruits that have a large seed

↑ 3K 💬 377 gallery 2026

Is my decorative banana plant not just decorative?

↑ 2.7K 💬 296 gallery 2026

What do I have growing here?

↑ 1.4K 💬 72 gallery 2026

Odd bush/tree popped up pretty quickly, species?

↑ 1.1K 💬 72 gallery 2026

What type of flower (dahlia?) is this?

↑ 1K 💬 31 gallery 2026

Flowers in the garden of the Qorikancha, Peru

↑ 780 💬 35 gallery 2026

What sort of mushroom is this? We are at the vet now 😟

↑ 556 💬 98 gallery 2026

What’s this fern looking thing?

↑ 518 💬 62 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/whatsthisplant, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/whatsthisplant have?
r/whatsthisplant has about 1.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 310 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.6K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/whatsthisplant?
"What's this flower that looks like a duck?" reached 5.6K upvotes and 77 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/whatsthisplant.
What subreddits are similar to r/whatsthisplant?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing, r/PcBuild.
What kind of posts do best on r/whatsthisplant?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are gallery posts and 38% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/whatsthisplant?
Across 310 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 04:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 21:00 UTC (661 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (216 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/whatsthisplant?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/whatsthisplant has 222 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/whatsthisplant, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.