Maple leaves are pretty recognizable. There's a whole entire country that's got one on its flag.
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As a Minnesotan who pops gummies every night, I can safely say I have no idea how many leaves are on a marijuana, but a maple is 3 points with 3 points on each of them and 2 teeny tiny little legs at the bottom
The iconic sugar maple leaves have 5 lobes, not 3. I am a Certified Naturalist with a specialty in native trees.
I think you are saying the same thing in a different manner. The other two lobes being the “legs” at the bottom. Looking at pictures of sugar maple leaves, both descriptions fit to me.
Forgive my crude drawings. I did not read it that way.
This is what they described before the edit. 
This is what I describe as the iconic maple leaf, and accurate to life:
But this is what they're describing.
Ahh the mascot for the Maple Leafs
Was the part with the two legs added in an edit? It was there by the time I commented (obviously, as I mentioned it). Without that part, then yeah, that description is off
Yes.
What kind of certification do you need to take your clothes off and play volleyball with your friends?
Being able to reproduce it from memory is different from recognizing it though
Fake news, Canada's not a real country, it's made up, like unicorns, or gypsies.
Birds aren't real
Split the middle. Japanese Maple Tree leaves look almost identical to Marijuana leaves.
Maple leaves are pretty recognizable, but if I saw a silhouette of a marijuana leaf next to the silhouette of a maple leaf, I'd probably pick out the marijuana leaf first. I'm not really even a weed user. Might just be me, though.
(four leaf) clover have to be in the top five most recognizable too
Probably more recognizable TBH.
I think Canada would like a word
I always recognize the Canadian flag because of the iconic marijuana leaf
Legalise Canada
M.A.C. enters the chat
Canada would like to have a word
Canada: Am I a joke to you?
The kids in the hall say yes
Yes. This country certainly is right now
Have you seen South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?
As much as I wish this were true, even little kids can recognize clover leaf.
If I had to rate recognition I think it would be:
- Clover
- Fern
- Maple
- Cannabis
I feel like oak is also in the top 5. Possibly even higher than cannabis.
Depends on where you live. We don't have any oaks where I grew up. I couldn't tell you what their leaves look like
Individual leaves of clover definitely aren't that recognizable.
The leaf is the set of leaflets.
Ahh yes that's correct. My bad.
Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy is a pretty memorable silhouette.
Shamrocks are pretty recognisable too.
Pine needles?
Maple leafs
Four leaf covers
Palm fronds?
Pineapple leafs are pretty identifiable
A pineapple leaf on its own could be any kind of long thin leaf though. It's only on a pineapple that they're obvious
Sorry, maple leaf for the win.
Have to say oak myself, at least in the northern hemisphere.
Pointy oak, round oak or broad oak?
Palm leaves ?
Nah, it risks getting mixed up with maple's.
Haven't you seen any Gingko biloba?
You mean spades?
I think they are like butterfly wings. No other leaves looks like that.
What a relief.
What a reefer leaf
Any love for the Hong Kong orchid?
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