Azalea

For other uses, see Azalea (disambiguation).

Azalea
Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	No

An azalea is a solid block that can be grown into an azalea tree.

A flowering azalea is a variant of azalea that, additionally, counts as a flower for all purposes, including pollination by bees, except crafting dyes.

Obtaining

Breaking

Azaleas can be broken instantly using any tool or by hand. Harvesting an azalea with shears consumes the durability of the shears for no additional benefit.

An azalea also breaks if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if water flows into it.

Natural generation

Azaleas and their flowering counterparts generate commonly on top of moss in lush caves.

Post-generation

When decayed or mined with any tool except shears and tools enchanted with Silk Touch, azalea leaves and flowering azalea leaves have a 5% chance to drop azaleas and flowering azaleas, respectively. The Fortune enchantment increases the rate to 6.25% at level I, 8.33% at level II and 10% at level III.

When using bone meal on a moss block, each block in a 3×3 to 7×7 area has a 15% chance of growing an azalea and a 5% chance of growing a flowering azalea.

Usage

Flowering azaleas function like any other flowers in their interaction and uses with bees. Azaleas can be placed on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, podzol, moss blocks, farmland, mud, muddy mangrove roots and clay.

Unlike most transparent blocks, mobs can spawn on top of azaleas and flowering azaleas in Java Edition.

Composting

Putting an azalea in a composter has a 65% chance of increasing the composting level. Flowering azaleas have an 85% chance.

Fuel

Azaleas can be used as a fuel source in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per azalea.

Growing trees

Unlike saplings, an azalea or a flowering azalea does not automatically grow into an azalea tree. Therefore, using bone meal on it is the only way to grow an azalea tree. 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.

Bee nests

Oak and birch trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of any flowering azalea have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest containing 1 to 3 bees.

Sounds

Azalea

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.azalea.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.azalea.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.azalea.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.azalea.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.azalea.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.azalea	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.azalea	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.azalea	0.35	0.5
	Friendly Creatures	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.azalea	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Walking on the block	step.azalea	0.17	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Jumping from the block	jump.azalea	0.12	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.azalea	0.14	1.0

Flowering Azalea

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.flowering_azalea.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.flowering_azalea.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.flowering_azalea.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.flowering_azalea.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.flowering_azalea.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.azalea	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.azalea	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.azalea	0.35	0.5
	Friendly Creatures	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.azalea	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Walking on the block	step.azalea	0.17	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Jumping from the block	jump.azalea	0.12	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.azalea	0.14	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Azalea	azalea	Block & Item	block.minecraft.azalea
Flowering Azalea	flowering_azalea	Block & Item	block.minecraft.flowering_azalea

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Azalea	azalea	592	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.azalea.name
Flowering Azalea	flowering_azalea	593	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.flowering_azalea.name

History

October 3, 2020					Azaleas are announced as part of lush caves at Minecraft Live 2020.
Java Edition
1.17		21w05a			Added azaleas and flowering azaleas.
		21w10a			Azaleas and flowering azaleas now generate in lush caves.
		21w11a			Azaleas can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
		21w13a			The model of the azalea has been changed so that the texture of the sides is corrected and that the inner side texture is mirrored.
					Bees now see flowering azaleas as flowers.
		21w16a			Azaleas and flowering azaleas can now be fertilized with bone meal to get azalea trees.
		Pre-release 1			Azaleas and flowering azaleas can now be placed in flower pots.
Bedrock Edition
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)		beta 1.16.220.52			Added azaleas and flowering azaleas.
		beta 1.16.230.50			Bees now interact with flowering azaleas as they do with regular flowers.
		beta 1.16.230.54			Azaleas and flowering azaleas can now be grown into an azalea tree when using bone meal.
		beta 1.17.0.50			Azaleas and flowering azaleas are now affected by directional shading.
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.52			Azaleas and flowering azaleas are now no longer only available in experimental gameplay.
1.17.10		beta 1.17.10.21			Azaleas and flowering azaleas can now be placed in flower pots.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.20.29			Mobs no longer spawn inside azaleas or flowering azaleas.

Issues

Issues relating to "Azalea" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  Concept art for the lush caves and vegetation including azaleas.

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  A view of the lush caves with azaleas from Minecraft Live 2020.

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  Another view of lush caves with azaleas from Minecraft Live 2020.

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  A view of the lush caves with azaleas tweeted by LadyAgnes.

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  Another view of the lush caves with azaleas, in an interview with LadyAgnes.

External Links

• Taking Inventory: Azalea – Minecraft.net on August 26, 2021