Botany MCP

Remote MCP server for authoritative plant information from the VicFlora API. Enables searching plants, fetching profiles, finding occurrences near a point, and looking up botanical terms.

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// key findings

🚨

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 2 critical, 3 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: BOTANY_MCP_TOKEN, OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configALLOWED_ORIGINS

configAUTH_REQUIRED— When NODE_ENV=production, auth is required by default unless =false is set explicitly.

🔐 secretBOTANY_MCP_TOKEN— generate-a-long-random-token

configHOST— Set =0.0.0.0 on hosted platforms that require binding on all interfaces.

configIMAGE_PROXY_ALLOWED_HOSTS— The image proxy defaults to VicFlora hosts only; override with a comma-separated host list if VicFlora changes image CDNs.

configIMAGE_PROXY_PATH

configLOG_LEVEL

configMCP_ENDPOINT_PATH

configOAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_SECONDS

configOAUTH_CLIENT_ID— botany-mcp

🔐 secretOAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET— generate-another-long-random-secret

configPORT

configPUBLIC_BASE_URL— On Railway, can be omitted when RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN is present; the server will derive https://<RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN>.

configVICFLORA_CACHE_TTL_MS

configVICFLORA_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT

configVICFLORA_TIMEOUT_MS

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commit: 8803513419d71e677390451c4bbe4eeb3d20664f

code hash: 210dc415e48595318d02f17086eebdae301e65216ca1cb22fb09decc1f6e6462

verified: 6/14/2026, 9:56:18 AM

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