They are completely different. They don't use normal values in each config, instead they use bytes/bits to determine the state of the plant, the location of the plant, and a few other things (depending on what plant you are looking at). This is all stored into one config. Here's an example:
Those are all the values for plants, EXCEPT for cactus. I could gather the values on my own for cactus, but of course it's easier to ask if someone has the values or not.