Botany

Botany is a custom enchantment that can be bought from Gardener shopkeepers. By breaking leaves and grass with a tool with this enchantment, you may find unindentified seeds. The cooldown for finding seeds goes down with each successive level of Botanist on a tool, and starts at around 5 minutes. After you've found 4 seeds, you can assemble them into a spawnable plant! These plants vary in appearance and use, from the small Phosfungus to the coveted Wishing Willow.

Basics
A planted seed begins life exhausted and fallow, during which time it is unable to provide additional effects. Exhausted plants eventually recover, but will remain fallow until a special substance called Vital Dew is applied. Vital Dew is obtained through either the application of Fertilizer (a combination of bonemeal, gunpowder, and rotten flesh), a Vital Dew Condenser, or from a Gardener Shopkeeper.

Plant Size
There are three tiers of plant size; small, medium, and large. Small plants require 1 Vital Dew to activate, medium plants require 2, and large plants require 3. Certain plants can be multiple sizes (such as the Phosfungus), but most are in one size category.

Pets
Some pets are also available through Botany by using a Spark of Life on certain plants. There are three known Botany-specific pets, which involve using a Spark of Life on Guycelium Spores, Cattail Seeds, or Venus Flytrap Seeds.