Gotta classify em’ all
As I was playing the Pokémon console games a couple of years ago, I made a peculiar observation: not a single grass-type pokémon was actually based on a species of grass! This got me wondering… if there was a phylogenetic tree of all plant-related pokémon, where might each species fall? Are Bulbasaurs more closely related to Bellsprout or Oddish? What even is a Tangela?
Thus, BotanicaDex was born with a goal; classify each pokémon species, understand their relationships, and learn even more about plants in our world. With the perennial release of new pokémon and new developments in our understanding of plant evolution, BotanicaDex exists as a living, changing catalog of vegetal relationships. I hope you enjoy and join me on this endeavor.
TCG Ill. Mitsuhiro Arita ©1995, 96, 98, 99 Nintendo creatures, GAMEFREAK