Collection structure
Multi-collection workspaces
Run separate personal, greenhouse, club, or research collections with scoped members, privacy controls, roles, audit history, and collection-specific settings.
Botanical Accession System
A living database for collections with complicated plants.
AxilDB is a self-hosted botanical accession system for serious personal and small-collection work: structured locations, validated definitions, specimen history, care queues, exhibits, QR labels, cautious AI tools, notifications, and audit-friendly collaboration in one calm app.
Accepted name
Dracaena trifasciata
Acquired as: Sansevieria zeylanica
Provisional taxon: Dracaena zeylanica
Aliases: Snake Plant, Mother-in-law's Tongue, Sansevieria trifasciata
Notes: Awaiting morphological confirmation from bloom and leaf traits.
Built for living collections
Real accession work, without the recordkeeping sprawl
AxilDB is designed around the steady work of identifying, placing, caring for, reviewing, and sharing living plants. The public page stays concise; the app keeps the detail where it belongs.
Collection structure
Validated plant definitions
Reuse reviewed site-level definitions with taxonomy, aliases, type images, and husbandry while keeping local overrides for collection-specific care.
Collection structure
Locations and shelf QR labels
Model rooms, cabinets, shelves, benches, and nested locations with stable codes, move history, location filters, and scannable QR labels.
Collection structure
Collection Exhibits
Create curated read-only exhibit pages from selected specimens, grouped by plant definition, with configurable details, update subscriptions, and polished PDF export.
Daily plant work
Smart Care Queue
Prioritize watering, propagation checks, open issues, pest checks, bloom follow-ups, reminders, and weekly greenhouse work from one care engine.
Daily plant work
Bulk care by location
Record watering, pest checks, repotting, health reviews, and other care events for selected plants in a location, with direct or nested scope.
Daily plant work
Quarantine workflow
Track new or risky plants with quarantine locations, risk levels, checklists, target release dates, care queue reviews, and release history.
Daily plant work
Plant Health Timeline
Scan the life history of each specimen across care, blooms, issues, photos, moves, notes, reminders, propagation, archive, and lineage events.
Records and intelligence
Photo-backed records
Attach specimen, definition, bloom, and note photos with galleries, cover images, captions, plant-content checks, and moderation review states.
Records and intelligence
ID My Plant history
Use cautious AI identification from descriptions, known names, and optional images, then save results to personal and collection history or create a definition from a result.
Records and intelligence
Review-first AI assists
Draft definitions, husbandry guides, aliases, descriptions, collection briefings, and Green Thumb care notes without saving generated text automatically.
Sharing and continuity
Labels, care sheets, and sitter links
Generate plant and location QR labels, printable care sheets, weekly checklists, and limited plant-sitter links that stay tied to the living record.
Sharing and continuity
Notifications that respect context
Send opt-out-aware email and Web Push reminders, care digests, exhibit updates, follows, sunshine notices, collection update digests, and server health alerts.
Sharing and continuity
Lineage, transfers, and shared definitions
Connect propagations, sport candidates, shared definitions, specimen transfers, and follower-visible updates without exposing private collection data.
Operations
Self-hosted server tools
Use 2FA, role boundaries, backups, storage estimates, image moderation queues, server incidents, health checks, and maintenance controls.
Archive-quality photos
Keep specimen, bloom, and definition images close to the records they explain.
Lineage at a glance
See propagation relationships and candidate sport lines without losing parent context.
Labels that travel
Print plant and location labels that lead back to the right record or shelf.
From label to accession
Keep the seller's label, your current interpretation, photos, notes, reminders, sport evidence, and propagation history together.
1
Create the collection
Start a scoped workspace, invite the right roles, and decide what stays private, public, or exhibit-ready.
2
Define the plant
Use local or validated definitions, add aliases and references, and draft taxonomy or husbandry with review-first AI tools.
3
Place the specimen
Accession the plant, assign a structured location, print labels, and keep acquisition, source, and photo context together.
4
Care by queue or shelf
Work from due care, bulk-log tasks by location, manage quarantine, and keep plant-sitter or weekly checklists aligned.
5
Read the life story
Use timelines, blooms, photos, notes, moves, conditions, propagation, and lineage records to understand what happened and why.
6
Share carefully
Publish exhibits, generate PDFs, send update subscriptions, transfer specimens, or share care links without exposing private data.
A tiny botany wink
Named for the place new growth begins
An axil is the little junction where a leaf meets a stem, the tucked-away spot where buds, blooms, and branches often start. AxilDB borrows that idea for collection records: a small point of context where the next part of the plant's story can emerge.
Self-hosted and branch-friendly
AxilDB is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 so people can study, fork, and improve it while keeping network-hosted changes available to users. The AxilDB name and branding remain reserved for the official project.
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