Modification:Expanded Plants/Plants

This is a table of the real-life growths and growth seasons of plants found in Dwarf Fortress. It is a work in progress.

The values in this table will be incorporated into the Plant Fixes mod. Please feel free to help with the research!

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Plant name	Plant type	Annual/Perennial	Growths	Uses	Appearance Time	Color	Disappearance Time
Abaca
	Tree-like herb
		Perennial
			Pseudo-trunk Stem	None	Year-round	Green	N/A
			Leaf	Cloth fiber "Manila Hemp"	Every 3-8 months	Green	N/A
			Flower	None	No more than 1 month before leaves reappear	Red-orange	Shortly before leaves reappear
			Fruit	Contains seeds	Sometime after leaves reappear	Almost-white brown	??
			Seeds	Oil for soap only (oil not edible)	N/A	Black	N/A
Acacia
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Low-value wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Year-round	Green	N/A
			Flowers	None	Several times a year	Yellow	??
			Seedpods	Edible cooked, contains seeds, dye?	??	Brown	??
			Seeds	Edible raw or cooked	N/A	Black	N/A
Alder
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Mid-value wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Spring	Green, then orange	Autumn
			Male catkins	None	Before leaves	Yellow/pink	Spring
			Female catkins	None	Before leaves	Brown	Late autumn
Alfalfa
	Herb
		Perennial
			Stem	Edible when young (create sprout growth?)	Year-round	Light green	N/A
			Leaves	None	Early/mid spring	Light green	Mid/late autumn
			Flowers	None	Late spring	Magenta	Early autumn
			Seedhead	Contains seeds	Mid summer	Green	Late autumn
			Seed	Plantable, edible cooked	N/A	Light brown to yellow	N/A
Almond
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Late spring	Green, then red	November
			Flowers	None	Late February	White	Late spring
			Whole almonds	Contains seeds	September	Light brown	November
			Seeds	Edible	N/A	Brown	N/A
Apple
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Mid-spring	Green, then orange, then brown	Early winter
			Flowers	None	Mid-spring	Pink, then white	Late spring
			Fruit	Edible, brewable	Mid-autumn	Red, yellow or green	Late autumn
			Seeds	None	N/A	Brown	N/A
Apricot
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Mid-spring	Green, then yellow	Mid-autumn
			Flowers	None	Very early spring	White	Somewhat quickly
			Fruit	Edible, brewable, contains seed	Mid-summer	Orange	Early autumn
			Pit/kernel	Edible, edible oil	N/A	Brown	N/A
Artichoke
	Herb
		Perennial
			Stem	None	Year-round	Light green	N/A
			Leaves	None	Mid-Spring	Light green	Late autumn
			Bud w/ Heart	Edible/Brewable	Early summer	Light green	2 weeks later
			Flower	None	Immediate upon bud disappearance	Bright purple	??
			Seedhead	Contains seeds	Sometime after flower disappearance	Brown	Late autumn
			Seeds	Planting	N/A	??	N/A
Ash
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Low to mid-quality wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Late spring	Green, then yellow orange or red	Early autumn
			Flowers (male & female panicles)	None	Mid-spring	Purple
			Samaras	None	Summer	Green then brown, falls off in cloud	Mid-autumn
			Winter buds	None	Mid-winter	Brown	When leaves appear
Asparagus
	Herb
		Perennial
			Woody stem	None	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			New shoots	Edible	Late spring	light green	Early summer
			Leaves "ferns"	None	Early summer	Green, then yellow in fall & brown in winter	Late winter
			Flowers	None	June	White or yellow	July
			Berries	Contains seeds	??	Red	??
Avocado
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Year-round	Green	N/A
			Flowers	None?	January	Light green	February
			Fruits	Edible (raw), edible oil	June	Green	October

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Plant name	Plant type	Annual/Perennial	Growths	Uses	Appearance Time	Color	Disappearance Time
Bambara Groundnut
	Herb
		Annual
			Stem	None	Year-round	Green?	N/A
			Leaves	None	Year-round	Green	N/A
			Flowers	None	40 days after planting	purple or yellow?	60 days after planting
			Seedpods	Contain seeds	Every 85 days, starting at pollination	Brown	30 days after appearance
			Seeds	Edible, plantable. Oil?	N/A	Light brown	N/A
Banana
	Tree-like herb
		Perennial
			Pseudostem	None	A new one every 6-8 months	Green	Shortly after fruiting
			Leaves	Fiber for thread	New leaves with every pseudostem	Green	Shortly after fruiting
			Inflorescence (1/plant, at the "tip" of the bunch.)	Edible	No more than 2 months after pseudostem matures	Dark red	When the fruit falls
			Flowers (grow on the inflorescence)	None	Shortly after development of inflorescence	Pale pink	Appear in stages from base to tip; so about 2 months after appearing?
			Fruit (grow along the inflorescence, from the "base" of it, where the early flowers were)	Edible, brewable	4 months after flowering	Yellow or green	About 2 months after the first ripen (they ripen gradually from the base of the inflorescence to the tip)
Barley
	Herb
		Annual
			Stalk	None	15 days after leaves emerge	Green, then brown	90 days after leaves emerge
			Leaves	None	Early spring	Green, then brown	90 days after leaves emerge
			Seedhead	Contains seeds	50 days after leaves emerge	Green, then brown	90 days after leaves emerge
			Seeds	Edible, brewable, millable	N/A	Brown	N/A
Bayberry Bush
	Shrub
		Perennial
			Structural	None	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Early spring	Green	Late autumn (some are evergreen)
			Flowers	None	Mid-Spring	Yellow	Late spring
			Berries	Press for inedible oil & wax; contains seeds	Mid-summer	Light green, ripening to gray-light blue in autumn	Mid-winter
			Seeds	Plantable	N/A		N/A
Bayberry Tree (Chinese Bayberry)
	Tree
		Perennial
			Structural	Low-quality wood	Year-round	Brown	N/A
			Leaves	None	Year-round	Green	N/A
			Flowers	None	??	White	??
			Berries	Edible, brewable	November	Red	Not long - go bad quickly