Rethinking plant
record keeping: Hortis

Plant records—efficient, accurate,
[enjoyable], always available
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Hortis is here to empower your team, simplify how you enhance conservation efforts, and expand educational impact. Discover how you can embark on this transformative journey today!
Hortis was added to the Species360 product portfolio in 2022, thus extending our mission of facilitating the collection and sharing of knowledge to plants as well as animals. Botanical collections play an important role in global plant conservation efforts. However, many collection holders struggle to keep up with their plant records and consequently, are unable to utilise their collection to its full potential.
With Hortis, our aim is to help botanical institutions and zoos keep track of their collections with ease and efficiency, at an affordable cost. We offer a solution to this challenge by providing a cloud-based app, designed to work on any device so data can be captured and analysed where and when it happens.
With its innovative use of technology and design, Hortis is focused on providing an intuitive user experience, to allow a very high level of staff participation regardless of individual expertise.

Plant-record keeping
for botanic gardens and zoos

Hortis isn’t just for botanic gardens! Join our growing community of zoological institutions using Hortis to manage their gardens.

Benefits:

Cloud service

Access Hortis from any device while keeping your data automatically synced.

Educational impact

Increase your collection’s reach and impact by sharing your collection online.

Mobile first

Accurate data captured easily and efficiently, where it matters most.

Mapping for everyone

Geospatial data, not added as an afterthought.

Share & collaborate

Always-available tools to facilitate global knowledge-sharing.

Light, yet powerful

User-centred design and technology for everyone, no matter your experience.

Analytical insights

Move away from hunches to data-driven decisions.

Learn more about how organizations are using Hortis to manage their botanical collections

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What members say
about Hortis

With the help of Hortis, the zoo now has a comprehensive list of plants that will help label all plants and trees within its premises. We’re now confident enough to request Zoo Management to relabel the zoo to “Micke Grove Biological Park” – with a focus not only on conserving threatened wild animals, but also threatened plants and trees as well.
Dr Avanti Mallapur, Zoo Curator, Micke Grove Zoo
The team are having great fun with Hortis – bit by bit, currently cataloguing our entire plant collection.
Kevin Buley, Director at Auckland Zoo, New Zealand
We never had suitable plant records or any form of record keeping, and now we’re able to go from nothing to being able to map out all our areas. I can also add notes regarding the area or plant using a phone or tablet rather than having to be on a desktop, making this easier for a site with lots of scope and various planting areas. I also make notes on toxicity levels for animals, if it is a plant that can be fed out to certain animal species, and what animals and sections they can be used for.
Matt Berridge, Deputy Head Gardener, Hertfordshire Zoo

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Global information
serving conservation.

Species360 facilitates international collaboration in the collection and sharing of data to serve global plant and animal management and conservation goals.