Azalea Tree

Azalea Tree

Tree

Azalea

Flowering Azalea

Biomes	Lush Caves
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Oak Log Azalea Leaves Flowering Azalea Leaves Rooted Dirt Hanging Roots

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An azalea tree is a rare tree that can generate above a lush cave biome, marking the biome's presence aboveground. They generate with a root system underground into the cave beneath.

Appearance

Azalea trees are made of oak logs and (sometimes flowering) azalea leaves on the surface. Their trunks grow straight up then on a diagonal halfway up the tree. Naturally generated azalea trees come with a root system feature. Below the tree, rooted dirt replaces random blocks going all the way down to the lush caves where some hanging roots generate.

Generation

An azalea tree in a jungle

Azalea trees generate on any empty space above a lush cave exposed to the sky, if there is dirt or a supported block where they can grow on. This can sometimes produce jarring scenery, such as when the trees generate in a snowy taiga or mushroom fields.

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

Planting

Azalea trees can be grown by using bone meal on azalea or 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.

Azaleas and flowering azaleas can be planted on:

• Dirt
• Grass Block
• Coarse Dirt
• Podzol
• Mycelium
• Rooted Dirt
• Moss Block
• Pale Moss Block
• Farmland
• Mud
• Muddy Mangrove Roots
• Clay

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. Azalea trees do not need to be grown over a lush caves biome; they can grow anywhere, like saplings.

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

Azalea trees can grow underwater, just like mangrove trees.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

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.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	azalea_tree

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	azalea_tree_feature

History

Reveal

October 3, 2020							Azalea trees were seen at Minecraft Live 2020.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.17			21w10a				Added azalea trees.
							They generate above lush caves.
			21w16a				Applying bone meal to azalea and flowering azalea now produces azalea trees, matching Bedrock Edition.
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				Azalea trees now generate naturally in default worlds, due to lush caves generating naturally.
			Pre-release 7				Azalea trees no longer generate underwater.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.52				Added azalea trees.
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.230.54				Applying bone meal to azalea and flowering azalea now produces azalea trees.
			beta 1.17.0.50				Azalea trees now naturally generate along with lush caves.

Issues

Issues relating to "Azalea Tree" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Azalea trees on the surface, indicating the location of the lush caves
• 
  Azalea tree next to an oak
• 
  A dark forest azalea tree
• 
  Root systems from azalea trees in lush caves
• 
  Azalea trees in wooded badlands with exposed lush caves
• 
  An azalea tree in a mushroom fields biome
• 
  An azalea tree between a snowy taiga and snowy beach
• 
  An azalea tree in a pale garden with the lush caves below
• 
  Azalea trees on a rather unusual stony shore in an old growth pine taiga
• 
  Many azalea trees generated close together in old growth taigas
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  Two azalea trees right next to each other in an old growth birch forest
• 
  An azalea tree on the riverbed of wooded badlands. A second one can be seen in the distance.
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  An azalea tree in shallow water
• 
  An azalea tree that was generated underwater in Bedrock Edition

Historical screenshots

• 
  Azalea trees as seen in Minecraft Live 2020. This no longer occurs naturally, due to lush caves being unable to generate beneath plains biomes.
• 
  An azalea tree in a desert. A jungle and a warm ocean are in the background.