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Plantaerium

by Realmdrop

The Industry-Wide Plant Reference Database

Plantaerium consolidates plant data from across the nursery industry into a single curated record per cultivar — deduplicated, attribute-rich, and cross-referenced to its suppliers.

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What you get

One clean reference for the whole industry's plant data.

One record per plant

Many suppliers, one canonical cultivar record — no more reconciling conflicting listings by hand.

Cross-referenced to the industry

See which suppliers carry each cultivar, and deep-link out for live availability.

Attribute-rich & searchable

Botanical name, cultivar, patent status, hardiness zones, bloom months and colors, mature size, light and soil needs — all filterable.

Field-level provenance

Every attribute is traceable to the supplier that contributed it. Editorial overrides keep the canonical record clean.

How it's built

Serious data engineering under a simple reference.

Medallion data architecture

Raw supplier data is refined through layered stages into a durable canonical record — supplier churn never corrupts what's already curated.

Entity resolution engine

Fuzzy-matching (trigram + ranked scoring) automatically merges the same plant across suppliers; ambiguous cases go to a human review queue.

Tiered access API

A clean, versioned REST API with graduated access tiers, secured by AuthRealm — the same auth platform powering the rest of the Realmdrop suite.

Content-addressed images

Images are deduplicated by content hash and served from Cloudflare R2 — no duplicate storage, and stable references even when supplier URLs change.

Public API

The reference, programmatically.

A clean, versioned REST API. The public surface is shown below; higher tiers — full fields, images, and tenant overlays — open up with a tiered API key.

GET/api/v1/plants/{id}None required

Canonical record for a plant (public whitelisted fields).

GET/api/v1/plants/search?q=None required

Search by name or attributes with filters (zone, height, bloom).

GET/api/v1/plants/{id}/suppliersNone required

Suppliers that carry this cultivar.

GET/api/v1/suppliersNone required

Public supplier directory (name + link).

GET/api/v1/plants/changes?since=API key (tiered)

Change feed for syncing subscribers.

Base URL https://plantaerium.com/api

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Released in Plantaerium 2.0

Find your zone from a ZIP code.

A new tool — and a new public API — that turns a single ZIP code into the three things every grower needs: USDA hardiness zone, heat zone, and a tailored list of native plants for that location.

Hardiness zone

The USDA hardiness zone for any ZIP code, in seconds.

Heat zone

The AHS heat zone too — so you plant for the summers, not just the winters.

Native plants

A location-aware shortlist of plants native to that area.

GET/api/v1/zones?zip={zip}None required

Hardiness zone, heat zone, and native-plant matches for a ZIP code.

Try Find My Zone

Also new in 2.0

Smarter hardiness-zone search

Match plants to your climate three ways:

Suits your climate — plants for your specific hardiness zone.
Within range — when you garden across a span of zones.
Exact zone — pinpoint a precise range, like 3–5.

Advanced Search

A dedicated Advanced Search page with deeper filtering — search the catalog by cultivar or by species to drill straight to the records you need.

Part of the Realmdrop suite

Plantaerium runs on the same production-grade backbone as the rest of the suite — secured by AuthRealm, billed through GateKeep.

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