Flower Pot

A flower pot is a decorative block that allows plants in it.

Obtaining
Flower pots can be mined using any tool, or without a tool.

A flower pot will also drop itself as an item when pushed by a piston.

Natural generation
Flower pots naturally generate in witch huts where they contain a red mushroom, the basement of igloos where they contain a cactus and in woodland mansions.

Usage
A flower pot can be used to hold various plants. Plants that can be in a pot include any one block high flowers, saplings, ferns, dead bushes, mushrooms and cacti.

Flower pots can be placed on upside-down slabs and upside-down stairs. They can not be placed on normal slabs and stairs. Flower pots are $3/8$ of a block high and can be stepped on. It is not possible to walk from the top of a flower pot onto a full sized block without jumping. It is possible to jump from a flower pot onto a fence. The plant can be removed from the flower pot by pressing the control.

Block data
''Note: These data values only apply to flower pots placed before Minecraft 1.7.2. Flower pots placed in Minecraft 1.7.2 or later do not use data values, instead using the block entity information listed below. Legacy flower pots will not automatically update to a block entity, and must be broken and replaced or interacted with.''

Block entity
A flower pot has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block. The block's block entity ID is.

Trivia

 * The flower pot is based on a suggestion from Reddit, like ender chests and item frames.
 * When placed in a flower pot, cacti will not harm the player or destroy items.
 * Flower pots break falling sand and gravel blocks.
 * When aiming at the side of a transparent block behind or above a crafting table the pot will not be placed on said block but on top of the crafting table instead.