Botan does the thing every plant owner needs first: it tells you what you are actually looking at. Point your camera at a leaf or flower and the app compares it against a database of tens of thousands of species, returning a best match with a confidence score in a second or two. From there the product expands into a full care companion — you get watering, fertilising and pruning schedules built around the identified species, plus reminders so you stop guessing.\n\nThe second half of the experience is troubleshooting. Take one photo of the whole plant and one of the damaged section, and Botan diagnoses the likely disease or pest problem and returns a treatment plan with concrete steps and an estimated recovery window. Because toxicity matters to households with pets and small children, identification results also flag whether a plant is poisonous to animals or people — useful before you buy that attractive pot at the nursery.\n\nBotan works both as a free web tool for quick lookups and as a mobile app for ongoing care. It also maintains browsable plant encyclopaedia pages by type — houseplants, trees, succulents, flowers, shrubs and more — which makes it a reasonable reference even when you are not standing next to the plant in question.
