People keep asking how to say it. RAY-kiss.
It’s a deliberate misspelling of rachis - the botanical term for the central stem of a compound leaf, the axis that all the leaflets branch from. If you’ve ever looked closely at a fern frond or an ash leaf, the rachis is the long bit down the middle; the leaflets fan out from it.
The metaphor was the thesis the whole project was built on. Identifying the species is the rachis. Everything else - whether it’s healthy, what’s wrong with it, what stage it’s in, what it needs next - branches from there. Get the species right and the rest follows. Get the species wrong and nothing else matters.
A lot of plant apps treat identification as the destination. We treat it as the spine.
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