Mods/Thaumcraft/Plants

Thaumcraft introduces several new plants, all of which have use in magic.

Greatwood Trees
These huge and distinctive trees are found in ordinary forests and occasionally other biomes, but especially in magical forests.
 * They have a 2&times;2 trunk extending up to a multibranched canopy. Each tree can yield upwards of three stacks of greatwood logs.  They can be grown by placing 4 saplings in a square, similar to jungle giants.  (Single saplings will not grow.)
 * Their logs and planks are used in magical crafting, notably the second-tier wand core. The logs are a cheap source of Praecantio essentia.
 * The wood can also be used in ordinary crafting, but if the planks are further crafted into stairs or slabs, the result will be plain oak.
 * Some greatwood trees are adorned with cobwebs. These have a cave spider spawner and a treasure chest beneath the trunk.

Silverwood Trees
These trees have distinctive white wood and bluish leaves, with magical lights glittering from the leaves and shimmerleafs groing around them. They are found only in Magical Forest biomes (and if grown elswhere, may create a Magical Forest biome around them, see below.)
 * They sometimes grow with Pure ../Node/s embedded in a log (or even two). The log with the node will be marked with a large black spot on its bark.  If a Pure node is not already in a Magical Forest, it will change the area around them into Magical Forest, and also defend a small area against Taint.
 * They can be grown from saplings (and this will create shimmerleafs around them), but bonemeal will not work on them. The saplings are comparatively rare, with a low chance of dropping from leaves.  However, sapling-grown silverwoods seem usually to be the largest form, which have enough leaves to usually drop at least one sapling.  Silverwood saplings can also be purchased from ../Pech/.
 * Their wood can supply both Praecantio and Ordo essentia.

Shimmerleaf
Shimmerleafs only appear around silverwood trees, including appearing when a silverwood sapling grows. If broken, they will produce quicksilver, but the flowers can also be harvested with shears, and eventually crafted into the ../Taint/-purifying ../Ethereal Bloom/.

Cinderpearl
Cinderpearl appears in desert biomes. They are generated with the landscape and cannot be farmed. When broken or crafted, they produce Blaze Powder, which can be used to produce a few special items such as Ender Chests before reaching the Nether.

Mana Pods
Mana Pods appear on trees in Magical Forests. They can be planted on any log, but only in one of the three magical biomes: Magical Forest, Eerie, or Tainted. (Note however, that they have no special resistance to taint, so they will be short-lived in a tainted area. Also, their wood will be turned to taint.) When ripe, the pods can be broken to yield one or two beans. Each bean has a random aspect, which can be any of the 50 aspects. (It does not matter what the "parent" bean's aspect was.) Mana beans can be used directly in certain recipes, notably for ../Salis Mundus/. They can also be distilled for their aspects (which can provide some rare aspects), or traded to ../Pech/. If eaten, they will produce random effects.