Minecraft:Azalea Tree

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An azalea tree is a rare Minecraft:tree that can generate above a Minecraft:lush cave biome, marking the biome's presence aboveground. They extend their roots underground into the cave beneath.

Appearance

Azalea trees are made of Minecraft:oak logs and Minecraft:azalea leaves on the surface. Their trunks grow straight up then on a diagonal halfway up the tree. Their roots consist of Minecraft:rooted dirt and Minecraft:hanging roots, which reach all the way down to the Minecraft:lush caves.

Generation

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The rooted dirt and hanging roots that generate under an azalea tree.

Azalea trees generate on any empty space above a Minecraft:lush cave, including inside other caves or in biomes that are not grassy.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> This can sometimes produce jarring scenery, such as when the trees generate in Minecraft:snowy plains or Minecraft:mushroom fields.

Azalea trees can generate in water up to 2 blocks deep, similarly to Minecraft:swamp oaks. Unlike all other trees, however, the maximum depth is limited by the azalea's unique Minecraft:root system feature config rather than a 'surface_water_depth_filter' placement modifier.

Azalea trees can be grown by using Minecraft:bone meal on Minecraft:azalea or Minecraft:flowering azalea. They do not automatically grow into an azalea tree, so bone meal must be used. Application of bone meal gives an azalea or flowering azalea a 45% chance to grow into an azalea tree, provided there is a 3×5×3 area above it that is clear of all blocks that are not leaves or logs.

Blocks and items

These items can be obtained from azalea trees:

Template:BlockLink (harvested with any tool, including hands)
Template:BlockLink (harvested with Minecraft:shears)
Template:BlockLink (harvested with shears)
Template:BlockLink (chance of dropping when breaking azalea leaves)
Template:BlockLink (chance of dropping when breaking flowering azalea leaves)
Template:ItemLink (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
Template:BlockLink (created from four logs in the inventory crafting grid)
Template:BlockLink (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
Template:BlockLink (created by Template:Control an Minecraft:axe on a log)
Template:BlockLink (harvested with any tool, including hands)
Template:BlockLink (harvested with shears)

Planting

Template:Expand section Minecraft:Azaleas and Minecraft:flowering azaleas can be planted on:

Azalea trees requires a 3×3 column of unobstructed space at least 5 blocks above the sapling (6 blocks including the sapling itself). No horizontal clearance is needed at the base of the tree (an azalea planted in a hole 1 block deep can still grow). Growing an azalea tree replaces the block below its trunk with rooted dirt. This only generates one block of rooted dirt and no hanging roots.<ref>Template:Cite bug</ref> Azalea trees do not need to be grown over a lush caves biome; they can grow anywhere, like Minecraft:saplings.

Interestingly, azaleas and flowering azaleas produce identical trees with the same proportion of flowering leaves.

Azalea trees can grow underwater Template:Only, just like Minecraft:mangrove trees.

Azalea trees always grow in one of the four cardinal directions with the extra branches offset by one to two blocks to the middle at the third to fifth log layer. They have two branches at the fifth block layer unless grown in a 5×5 cuboid.