Plants in Minecraft

Your guide to Minecraft botany.

Flowers

There are many types of flowers in the game, which can be found in different biomes . Flowers can be crafted into many different kinds of dyes .

Common Flowers

Dandelion

Dandelion

Dandelions are the commonest flowers.

Poppy

Poppy

Poppies are also quite common.

Swampland and Taiga Flowers

Blue Orchid

Blue Orchids are the only swampland flowers; they can also be found in Taiga biomes.

Forest Flowers

Allium

Allium flowers are only found in the forest.

Lilac

Lilac flowers can be found in some types of forest.

Rose Bush

Rose bushes are found in all sorts of forests including birch forests.

Peony

Peonies are found in most of the forest biome types.

Plains Flowers

Oxeye Daisy

Oxeye Daisies can be found on Plains biomes.

Azure_bluet

Azure Bluets are another flower commonly found on the plains.

Orange Tulip

Tulips can be found in 4 colours; red, orange, pink and white.

Sunflower Plains

Azure_bluet

Sunflowers are found in a rare biome called Sunflower Plains. They always face East. Oxeye Daisies are also found in this biome

Grass

grass block

Grass blocks are found all over the world of Minecraft. Grass blocks will convert neighbouring dirt blocks to grass if there is enough light. Grass blocks will turn to dirt if another block is placed on top of them.

Grass blocks turn to dirt when you mine them, unless you use a tool enchanted with Silk Touch . Using Silk Touch you can collect grass blocks from the surface and plant them underground or in the Nether.

Tall Grass and Ferns

Tall Grass  Fern

Tall grass can be found in many biomes. In certain biomes you will get ferns instead of grass.

You can use shears to collect tall grass and ferns to plant elsewhere, otherwise breaking tall grass blocks will destroy them

When breaking grass, you may recover seeds that can be planted to grow wheat.

Vines

Vine

Vines grow in Jungle and Swamp biomes. You can climb them like a ladder.

It's possible to harvest vines using Shears and place them on a vertical surface where they will grow into a natural ladder.

Cactus

Cactus

Cacti grow in the Desert. They cause damage to players or mobs who bump into them, and destroy items that come into contact with them.

Lily Pads

Lily Pad

Lily Pads are found growing on water in Swampland biomes. They can be collected and placed on any still water, where they will allow yu to walk on them, and will stop items falling into the water. This makes them very useful in farms!

Sugar Cane

Sugar Cane

Sugar Cane can be found growing near water in many biomes. It's the raw material for both sugar and paper, so very useful.

Cocoa Pods

Cocoa Pod

Cocoa Pods grow on Jungle Trees and can be cultivated on Jungle Logs. They provide Cocoa Beans, used as a dye and in cooking.

Dead Bushes

Dead Bush

Dead bushes can be found mostly in dry areas. They are purely decorative, and can be harvested using Shears.

Mushrooms

Red Mushroom Brown Mushroom

Mushrooms can be found growing in a number of biomes, especially Swampland, as well as in caves and the Nether. They won't grow in direct sunlight but can be found in the shade of trees. Youw ill need both red and brown mushrooms to make Mushroom Stew,

Giant Mushrooms

Giant mushrooms grow in Roofed Forest and Mushroom Island biomes. They're as big as trees and provide a lot to eat!

Crop Plants

Whilst almost all of the plants descrived above can be cultivated, these are the main ones you will want to grow for food, and the ones you may find growing in NPC villages .

Wheat

Wheat

Dead bushes can be found mostly in dry areas. They are purely decorative, and can be harvested using Shears.

Carrots

Carrots

Eat them, feed them to pigs or make potions out of them.

Potatoes

Potatoes

Boil 'em, bake 'em, put 'em in a stew&emdash;actually, you can only bake them.

Melons

Melon

Melons are a useful potion ingredient as well as a tasty snack! You can sometimes find their seeds in treasure chests, or buy them from Villagers.

Pumpkins

Pumpkins

Pumpkins can sometimes be found growng on hillsides, or you can find them in treasure chests. Pumpkins can be baked into pie, turned into decorative lighting fixtures or worn as a hat.

Flower Pots

Flower Pot

Flower pots are crafted from clay and can be used to place a number of plants decoratively. They can hold saplings, dead bushes, mushrooms and small flowers.

Trees

There are a few types of trees in the game, and they have their own page .

Nether Wart

Nether Wart

Nether Wart is a plant that grows in Nether Fortresses. When you find some, it's possible to bring it back to the Overworld to cultivate it: you'll need plenty of it if you want to brew potions!