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Modification:Expanded Plants/Plants
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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 | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Abaca | |||||||
Perennial Tree-like herb | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Perennial Herb | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | |||
Arrow Bamboo | |||||||
Perennial shrub-like herb | |||||||
No usable or even interesting growths; going to leave it an unremarkable grass. (Too thin for timber.) However, it grows up to 18 ft tall; might make it a shrub? Stupid pandas and their needing bamboo to be a grass. | |||||||
Artichoke | |||||||
Perennial Herb | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Perennial Herb | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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 | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Baby Toes Succulent | Perennial Succulent (herb?) | Very hot desert | Flowers | None | Late summer | White or yellow | Mid-autumn |
Bambara Groundnut | |||||||
Annual Herb | |||||||
Semi-arid tropical to subtropical savannah | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Perennial tree-like herb | |||||||
Tropical, medium to wet forest | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Annual Herb | |||||||
Temperate to subtropical forest/grassland | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Perennial Shrub | |||||||
Temperate marshes or other wet-to-medium. Saltwater OK. | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Temperate to subtropical, well-drained, light tree cover at most. | |||||||
Structural | Low-quality wood | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Year-round | Green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | ?? | White | ?? | |||
Berries | Edible, brewable | Harvestable in November | Red | Not long - go bad quickly | |||
Beet | |||||||
Biennial Herb | |||||||
Temperate, moderately wet, grassland to lightly forested | |||||||
Root | Edible, dye | Year-round | Dark magenta-brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | Edible raw or cooked | Late spring | Green | Mid autumn | |||
Flowers | None | Mid-summer | Green | Mid-summer | |||
Seedhead | Contain seeds | Late summer | Brown | Late summer | |||
Seed | Plantable | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Bentgrass | Perennial Herb | Anywhere | Boring. No indication of edible seeds, flowers are small & green & look like a seedhead. Just leave it, whatevs. | ||||
Bilberry | |||||||
Shrub | |||||||
Temperate & subarctic with poor soil. Forests-shrubland. | |||||||
Structural | None | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Spring | Green, then red | Fall | |||
Flowers | None | Mid-spring | Light red | Early summer | |||
Berries | Edible, brewable, dye, contains seeds | Late summer | Dark purple | Early autumn | |||
Seeds | Plantable | N/A | Dark red | N/A | |||
Birch | |||||||
Tree | |||||||
Temperate to boreal, any thickness veg | |||||||
Wood | High quality wood | Year-round | Cream to tan | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Mid spring | Light green, then orange | Mid autumn | |||
Male catkins | None | Mid autumn | Yellow | Late spring | |||
Female catkins | None | Early spring | Brown | Early Autumn | |||
Bitter melon | |||||||
Herbacious vine | |||||||
Tropical & subtropical forests | |||||||
Vine | None | Year-round | Green, then brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | Edible when young | Year-round | Green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | June | Yellow | July | |||
Melons | Edible, contains plantable seeds; incidentally, used in place of hops in brewing! | September | Green, then yellow-orange (not edible when yellow-orange - overripe, too bitter) | November | |||
Bitter orange | |||||||
Tree, arguably shrub | |||||||
Subtropical to mildly temperate. Needs full sun. | |||||||
Structural | Wood | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | January | Green, then orange | ?? | |||
Flowers | None | Late spring | White | Early summer | |||
Fruit | Edible cooked, source of orange marmalade, orange oil - good with sugar | December ripening | Green, then orange | February | |||
Bitter vetch | |||||||
Annual? herb | |||||||
Sub-tropical dryish (Turkey, Iraq etc.) | |||||||
Stem/Structural | None | ?? little info remains | Green | ?? | |||
Leaves | None | ?? | Green, look like honey locust | ?? | |||
Flowers | None | ?? | White to light purple | ?? | |||
Pods | Contains seeds | ?? | Brown | ?? | |||
Seeds | Edible COOKED ONLY, causes paralysis if undercooked | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Blackberry | |||||||
Perennial shrub | |||||||
Temperate; tolerates poor soil; best in bright sun; not too wet | |||||||
Canes (structural) | None | Year-round | Wood | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Early spring | Green, then red-purple in autumn | Late autumn? | |||
Flowers | None | May | White | Early summer | |||
Berries | Edible, brewable, contains seeds; when eaten raw should not produce seeds | Late summer | Red when unripe, then black | Mid-autumn | |||
Seeds | Edible raw or cooked, plantable | N/A | Purple | N/A | |||
Blood amaranth | |||||||
Annual herb | |||||||
Temperate to tropical, wet or dry. Requires direct sun, does not compete well against other plants. | |||||||
Stem | Edible when young | Mid spring | Green tinged with magenta | Early autumn | |||
Leaves | Edible, harvestable every 20 days or so - super crazy | Mid spring | Magenta tinged green | Early autumn | |||
Flowers | Hopi Red dye? May not be appropriate for fabric, was mostly used on pottery & as food coloring. | Late spring (70 days after planting) | Magenta-purple | Early summer | |||
Seedheads | Contain seeds | Mid summer (110 days after planting) | Also magenta-purple! | Early autumn | |||
Seeds | Edible cooked, flour, plantable | N/A | Black for wild, white for domesticated | N/A | |||
Blue sedge | Perennial? herb | Drought-tolerant, sun to part-shade, temperate to subtropical. Tolerates salt. | Pretty boring. Blue-green, but otherwise basic ground cover. | ||||
Blueberry | |||||||
Perennial Shrub | |||||||
Tundra to mild temperate, swampy to scrubby. Can deal with some woodland, but not downright forest. Will grow on mountains, Toady. :< | |||||||
Structural | None | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Middle spring | Green, then red | Early-mid autumn | |||
Flowers | None? | Mid spring | White | Late spring/early summer | |||
Berries | Edible, contain plantable seeds. NOT dye, blueberry stain does not hold to fabric. | Early summer | Green, then red, then (when ripe) dark blue | Late summer | |||
Seeds | Plantable. Should not be produced when eating the berry raw. | N/A | Purpley red | N/A | |||
Broad bean (fava bean) | |||||||
Herb, annual but doesn't die off except due to weather? | |||||||
Temperate to cold. Can handle a little wet but not too much, no dryness, some salt. Will not fruit above 70F or below 40F. Possibly divide into two plants - one a winter bean in warmer areas, one a summer bean in colder? Sharing each other's materials? | |||||||
Structural | None | Extremely early spring | Green | Hang around until killed - can we accomplish this with heatdamage & colddamage points on the structural material? | |||
Leaves | Edible raw, but this will reduce bean crop obvs. | Extremely early spring | Green | Hang around until killed | |||
Flowers | Edible raw | ?? | White | 2-6 weeks later (depending on heat - hotter is longer) | |||
Pods | Contain seeds | 80-100 days after planting | Green | Not long after? Beans are best when younger, and can only be eaten raw when harvested young - but can still be picked afterwards. A few different growths? | |||
Seeds | Edible raw or cooked, plantable | N/A | Green, then white, then black | N/A | |||
Buckwheat | |||||||
Annual herb | |||||||
Short-season crop, needs drainage but not dry. Mid-temperate to cold-temperate. No higher than 90F after the first 4 weeks, then no frost until the full 12 weeks are over. | |||||||
Stalk | None | Early spring, Mid summer | Green | Dies in cold or when picked | |||
Leaves | None | Early spring, Mid summer | Green | Dies in cold or when picked | |||
Flowers | None | 6 weeks after sowing | White | 2-3 weeks | |||
Seedhead | Contains seeds | 10-12 weeks after planting | Black | Mid autumn | |||
Seeds | Edible cooked, flour, brewable | N/A | Brown | N/A |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Cabbage | |||||||
Bienniel herb | |||||||
Temperate, not too shaded | |||||||
Head | Edible with its leaves | Mid-spring, early autumn | Green | Late spring/Early summer | |||
Stem | None | Early summer | Green | Until plant dies (in DF, probably until heads come up again) | |||
Leaves (opened, on stalk, not head) | None | Early summer (of the second year, but this is DF) | Green | Until plant dies | |||
Raceme/flowers | None? | Slightly later than the stem | Yellow | ?? Shortly after presumably | |||
Seed pods | Contains plantable seeds | a month after the flowers end? | Light brown | Only a few days! | |||
Seeds | Plantable | N/A | Chestnut brown | N/A | |||
Cacao tree | |||||||
Tree | |||||||
Tropical forests | |||||||
Wood | Wood | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Year-round | Green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | Year-round | ivory/pale yellow | N/A | |||
Cacao pod | Contains seeds | Year-round, with a 5-6 month ripening period | Green then orange | N/A | |||
Cacao beans | Edible cooked, ground to cacao paste, pressed to cacao butter (soap possible also) and cacao powder | N/A | Chocolate-colored! | N/A | |||
Candlenut | |||||||
Tree | |||||||
Tropics with decent rain and good drainage. Slightly salt-tolerant. | |||||||
Wood | Wood | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Year-round | Green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | January | White | March | |||
Nuts | Contains seed | September | Green, gray when ripe | December | |||
Seeds | Edible; millable; pressable for oil | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Caper | |||||||
Perennial shrub | |||||||
Tropical or subtropical deserts | |||||||
Structural | None | Year-round | Purple | N/A | |||
Leaves | Edible cooked | Year-round? | Green? | N/A | |||
Buds | Edible cooked | May | Green | August | |||
Flowers | None | Slightly later May | White | August | |||
Berries | Edible cooked, contains seeds | June | Green-brown | September | |||
Seeds | Plantable, obvs | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Carambola | |||||||
Broadleaf tree | |||||||
Tropical (forests?) | |||||||
Wood | Wood | Year-round | Birch-like (under the bark), with a little pink? | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Year-round | Dark green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | Year-round | Lavender/pink | N/A | |||
Fruits (Starfruit) | Edible, brewable | Year-round | Green when unripe, then yellow | 3 crops/year | |||
Carpetgrass | Perennial herb | Tropical & subtropical wet - tolerates periodic submersion & deep shade | Nothing interesting - green leaves, no interesting flowers or fruits. | ||||
Cashew | |||||||
Tree | |||||||
Tropical woodlands; leaves spread wide, so not thick forests. Both drought and wet tolerant. | |||||||
Wood | Wood | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Year-round | Dark green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | Winter | Light green, then pink-red | Later in that winter | |||
Fruit w/ nut | Edible, brewable into urrac, attached to NUT, not seed | A few months after flowering | Green nut, then green fruit, then red-orange when ripe | Drop after a few weeks? No gathering from ground, they sprout. | |||
Nut | Contains one seed, but seed is surrounded by a caustic chemical! Might make for some FUN in processing - chance to produce blister-liquid in workshop? | N/A | Darker brown | N/A | |||
Seed | Edible raw or cooked, nut butter, oil | N/A | Light brown | N/A | |||
Cassava | |||||||
Shrub | |||||||
Tropical & subtropical. Both wet- and dry-tolerant (but not desert). | |||||||
Structural | None | Year-round | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | Edible cooked, with same syndromes as root (Note to self: test out if ingested syndromes via cooking is possible) | Year-round | Green | N/A | |||
Root/tuber | Edible cooked (chance of cyanide poisoning. Let's leave out acute poisoning but give a chance for the effects of chronic exposure via layered syndromes. A few layers in you get: temporary blurred vision, permanent liver, kidney, pancreas & motor nerve damage, esp. to legs. Progressively worse motor nerve damage if it's still eaten, eventually blisters on brain & organ shutdown.), brewable, grindable to flour (we'll say flour is non-toxic since though toxic flour is possible, best practices REQUIRE making it into flour) | Year-round | Light brown | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | July | Bright pink | January | |||
Fruit | Contains plantable seeds | 70-90 days after pollination | Light green & Brown | 70-90 days after the last flowers disappear I guess? | |||
Seeds | Plantable | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Cattail | |||||||
Cedar | |||||||
Celery | |||||||
Cherry | |||||||
Chestnut | |||||||
Chickpea | |||||||
Chicory | |||||||
Citron | |||||||
Cloudberry | |||||||
Coconut palm | |||||||
Coffee | |||||||
Common reed | |||||||
Cotton | |||||||
Cottongrass | |||||||
Cowpea | |||||||
Cranberry | |||||||
Cucumber | |||||||
Custard-apple |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Dallisgrass | |||||||
Date palm | |||||||
Desert lime | |||||||
Dog's tooth grass | |||||||
Downy grass | |||||||
Dropseed grass | |||||||
Durian |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Eggplant | |||||||
Elephant-head amaranth |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Fescue grass | |||||||
Field sedge | |||||||
Finger lime | |||||||
Finger millet | |||||||
Fisher berry | |||||||
Flax | |||||||
Fonio | |||||||
Foxtail millet |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Garden Cress | |||||||
Garlic | |||||||
Ginkgo | |||||||
Golden bamboo | |||||||
Grama | |||||||
Grape | |||||||
Guava |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Hair grass | |||||||
Hard wheat | |||||||
Hazel | |||||||
Hedge bamboo | |||||||
Hemp | |||||||
Horned melon |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Jute |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Kaniwa | |||||||
Kapok | |||||||
Kenaf | |||||||
Knotgrass | |||||||
Kumquat |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Larch | |||||||
Leek | |||||||
Lentil | |||||||
Lesser yam | |||||||
Lettuce | |||||||
Lime | |||||||
Long yam | |||||||
Lychee |
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Work on M is in progress by a friend of mine who prefers to use a spreadsheet. If you're here to help, please begin with another letter. Thanks!
Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Macadamia | |||||||
Mahogany | |||||||
Maize | |||||||
Mango | |||||||
Mangrove | |||||||
Maple | |||||||
Marsh thistle | |||||||
Meadow-grass | |||||||
Meadowsweet | |||||||
Mountain avens | |||||||
Mung bean | |||||||
Muskmelon |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Needle Grass |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Oak | |||||||
Oats | |||||||
Olive | |||||||
Onion | |||||||
Orange |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Palm | |||||||
Papaya | |||||||
Papyrus sedge | |||||||
Paradise nut | |||||||
Parsnip | |||||||
Passion fruit | |||||||
Pea | |||||||
Peach | |||||||
Peanut | |||||||
Pear | |||||||
Pearl millet | |||||||
Pebble plant | |||||||
Pecan | |||||||
Pendant amaranth | |||||||
Pepper (bell) | |||||||
Persimmon | |||||||
Pine | |||||||
Pineapple | |||||||
Plum | |||||||
Pomegranate | |||||||
Pomelo | |||||||
Potato | |||||||
Purple amaranth | |||||||
Purple moor grass | |||||||
Purple yam |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Quinoa |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Radish | |||||||
Rambutan | |||||||
Ramie | |||||||
Raspberry | |||||||
Red bean | |||||||
Red spinach | |||||||
Reedgrass | |||||||
Rhubarb | |||||||
Rice | |||||||
Round lime | |||||||
Rubber tree | |||||||
Rush | |||||||
Rye | |||||||
Ryegrass |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Saguaro | |||||||
Sand pear | |||||||
Satintail | |||||||
Sawgrass | |||||||
Single-grain wheat (einkorn) | |||||||
Soft wheat | |||||||
Sorghum | |||||||
Soybean | |||||||
Spelt | |||||||
Spinach | |||||||
Squash | |||||||
Strawberry | |||||||
String bean | |||||||
Sweet potato |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Taro | |||||||
Perennial Herb | |||||||
Tropical wetland (native, also cultivated dry), high/medium soil fertility, any drainage, can handle some drought and flooding | |||||||
Corm | Edible (cooked), flour, folk medicine | All year | Brown (with light purple) | N/A (harvested when leaves start to die) | |||
Leaves | Edible (cooked), folk medicine | Spring/Summer (any period of warm wet weather) | Green, go yellow | 8-16 months | |||
Flowers | ?? | Very rare (supposedly as result of farming) | Yellow, white, green | ?? | |||
Fruit | Contains seeds | Very rare (people plant the tubers) | Red | ?? | |||
Seeds | ?? | N/A | White | N/A | |||
Tea | |||||||
Evergreen shrub / small tree | |||||||
Tropical (wet/dry), native habitat debated | |||||||
Structural | Wood | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | Drink, folk medicine, stimulant, edible oil, tannin, dye | Some sources say continuous growth, others that there is a dormant period after seed production | Dark green | N/A (two harvests: early spring and summer, other sources say all the time) | |||
Flowers | Drink | Late autumn (rare on farms) | White petals, yellow stamen | During fruit growth | |||
Fruits | Contains seeds | ?? | Green, go yellow and red, then brown | ?? | |||
Seeds | Edible oil (not to be mistaken for tea tree oil) | N/A | Black/dark brown | N/A | |||
Teff | |||||||
Annual cereal grain | |||||||
Subtropical / Tropical grasslands, swamps, marshes, very hardy, can handle limited drought and water logged soil, low/medium fertility soil | |||||||
Stems | Straw | Late spring - summer (seeds sown) | Green, goes yellow | Autumn/Winter (after harvest) | |||
Leaves | ?? | With stem | Green, goes yellow | With stem | |||
Seedhead | Contains seed | Summer | red/green (sort of flowers), then yellow | Autumn (harvest time), Gone by winter | |||
Grain | Edible (cooked at least), flour | N/A | White/light brown (wild relative would drop seeds) | N/A | |||
Tomatillo | |||||||
Annual Herb | |||||||
Tropical, high drainage soil, high rainfall | |||||||
Structural | Poisonous parts used as folk medicine | Spring (planting time) | Green | ?? | |||
Leaves | Poisonous | With stem | Green | ?? | |||
Flower | Poisonous | ?? | Pale yellow | ?? | |||
Fruit | Edible (raw/cooked), contains seeds, husk poisonous | Summer/early autumn (harvest time) | Grows inside a green husk which dries yellow/brown, fruit itself green, by end bursts through dry husk | ?? | |||
Seeds | Edible (cooked at least) | N/A | Pale yellow | N/A | |||
Tomato | |||||||
Turnip | |||||||
Two-grain wheat |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Urad bean | |||||||
Annual Herb | |||||||
Tropical (sources vary on dry/wet), medium to high soil fertility, high drainage | |||||||
Structural | Animal feed, fertilizer | Planted in summer or winter | Green | Two/three months | |||
Leaves | ?? | Quickly | Green | Two/three months | |||
Flowers | ?? | One month | Yellow | With bean pod development | |||
Bean pods | Edible (raw/cooked) | ?? | Green, goes yellow, then black | Two months (harvest time) | |||
Beans | Edible (raw/cooked), flour | N/A | Black, some dark green | N/A |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Velvet grass | |||||||
Perennial grass | |||||||
Temperate (open forest, woodland, marshes, grassland) | |||||||
Structural (leaves, stems, and all) | Grazing | ?? | Green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | Summer | White with pale pink | Summer |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Walnut | |||||||
Tree, Alternate Bearing | |||||||
Structural | High-value wood | Year-round | Dark Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | None | Early Spring | Green, then yellow, fall in clouds | Early Autumn | |||
Flowers (male first and then female) | None | Spring | Green | Late Spring / When seedpods appear | |||
Seedpods | Contains nuts, brown dye, tannin, ink | Late Spring / Early Summer, fall | Brown / Green | Late Summer / Early Autumn (when ready) | |||
Nuts | Edible raw or cooked, oil (food and paint), nut casing used for a few things most not period appropriate | N/A | Brown | N/A | |||
Watermelon | |||||||
Annual Vine | |||||||
Tropical / Subtropical (dry season), full sun, needs open space as they spread and kill neighbours, can be grown on trellis | |||||||
Vines | None | Early winter (in original setting) | Yellow/Brown hairs on new growth, Green, brown when dry | ?? | |||
Leaves | Edible raw | With vines | Green, brown when dry | ?? | |||
Flowers | Edible raw | They grow quickly | Yellow, brown when dry | When fruit develops | |||
Fruit | Edible raw, but better cooked, Brewable, acts as major water source for animals, humans can survive on it alone for 6 months | ?? | Green / Light green (sweeter ones go more yellow), may fall (stem goes dry) | Mid-Winter (when ready) | |||
Seeds | Edible cooked, flour | N/A | Black | N/A | |||
White millet | |||||||
Annual grass | |||||||
Temperate (dry), any soil save coarse sands | |||||||
Stem | None | Spring | Green, goes yellow | ?? | |||
Leaves | None | With stem, but getting bushy by late Spring | Green, goes yellow | ?? | |||
Seedhead | Contain seeds | Late summer, early winter (when ready) | Green, goes yellow, wild varieties would drop these | ?? | |||
Seeds | Edible cooked, flour | N/A | white/yellow (husks after milling: cream, yellow, orange-red, or brown) | N/A | |||
White mountain heather | |||||||
Perennial shrub | |||||||
Sub-alpine, patches on ground and in crevices | |||||||
Structural (leaves, stems, and all) | None | ?? | Dark green | N/A | |||
Flowers | None | Spring | White with red bractlets | Summer | |||
White yam | |||||||
Perennial Herb Vine | |||||||
Tropical (wet, some say dry too), very fertile soil | |||||||
Root | Edible (cooked), flour (dried rind) | All year (planted at start of rainy season) | Brown | N/A (usually harvested just before dry season) | |||
Leaves | Edible (at least other yam leaves are) | Wet season and after dry season | Green, go yellow | ?? | |||
Flowers | ?? | After dry season, rare and often sterile | White/green | ?? | |||
Seedhead | Contains seeds | Rare | ?? | ?? | |||
Seed | ?? | N/A | ?? | N/A | |||
Wild carrot | |||||||
Biennial herb | |||||||
Temperate (dry/good drainage), tolerates poor/moderate soil | |||||||
Root | Edible raw/cooked (by second year too woody and needs cooking) | Late autumn to early summer (seeds sown), ready to harvest by summer same year | White | ?? | |||
Leaves | Some say edible, others poisonous (phytophotodermatitis) | ?? | Green | Autumn | |||
Flowers | Edible | Summer (second year) | White | Early autumn | |||
Fruit | Contains seeds, dried as kindling | Late summer / early autumn (second year) | Brown with yellow/white hairs | they get stuck to animals | |||
Seeds | Edible, dye, folk medicine | N/A | Yellow brown | N/A | |||
Willow | |||||||
Perennial tree | |||||||
Temperate (wet) | |||||||
Structural | Light flexible wood, wicker, paper, fibre, medicine (bark), tannin (bark) | ?? | Brown | N/A | |||
Leaves | Medicine | Early spring - early summer | Green | Autumn (semievergreen) | |||
Catkins | Edible (poor people cooked and mashed them) | Before or with leaves | Yellow, white | ?? | |||
Seedpods | Contains seeds | Summer | Light brown | ?? | |||
Seeds | ?? | Late summer | Green (hairy) (fall in clouds) | Late summer, early autumn | |||
Winter melon | |||||||
Annual Vine | |||||||
Tropical (wet/dry), warm season, moist environment (when young, when established fairly drought resistant), well drained soil, frost kills, full sun | |||||||
Vines | Edible (shoots and tendrils) | Spring | Green, goes brown | Late summer, early autumn | |||
Leaves | Edible (raw/cooked) | Spring | Green, goes brown | Late summer, early autumn | |||
Flowers | Edible (raw/cooked) | ?? | Yellow, goes brown | As fruit develops | |||
Fruit | Contains seeds, edible (raw/cooked), takes months to spoil | ?? | Pale green, whiter with age (waxy) (white fuzz when young), folk medicine, candles (waxy coating), | Late summer, early autumn (fully ripe, but can be eaten immature), may drop from vine | |||
Seeds | Edible (not sure how), oil | N/A | Yellow | N/A |
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Plant name | Plant type | Climate | Growths | Uses | Appearance Time | Color | Disappearance Time |
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Zoysia |