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Ash
This tree is used to make broomsticks.

Abyssinian Shrivelfig
Abyssinian shrivelfigs are used by second-year students during herbology. Peeled abyssinian shrivelfigs are used as an ingredient in the Shrinking Solution.

Aconite
Aconite is an extremely poisonous plant that also goes by the names of monkshood and wolfsbane.

Alihotsy
Eating the leaves of the alihotsy causes hysteria.

Asphodel
Powdered root asphodel is a key ingredient of the Draught of Living Death. Asphodel is traditionally associated with the underworld and afterlife.

Belladonna
The belladonna plant is poisonous, and the essence of it is part of a Hogwarts students standard potion-making kit.

Bouncing Bulbs
Bouncing bulbs are repotted during herbology classes at Hogwarts They can be a handful to control, as Harry found out when one jumped from his hands and hit him in the face.

Bubotuber
A bubotuber looks like a thick, black, giant slug with many large pustules on it that are filled with a yellow-green pus that smells like petroleum. The pus of the bubotuber reacts oddly with human skin. Undiluted, it will raise horribly painful boils, but properly diluted and processed can be used to cure acne.

Cabbage
Hagrid grows the Hogwarts cabbages, so presumably they are used in the kitchens by the house-elves to make dinner. According to Hagrid, Flesh-Eating Slugs have been known to get eat them.

Chinese Chomping Cabbage
Hermione came across a diagram of a Chinese Chomping Cabbage while researching potion ingredients in the Hogwarts Library for potions homework.

Cherry
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Daisy
Chopped daisy roots are one of the ingredients in a Shrinking Solution.

Devil's Snare
Devil's Snare is taught in herbology at Hogwarts. It is a huge plant that uses its many tendrils and vines to ensnare anyone who touches it, eventually choking them to death. The key is to relax; the harder you struggle against it, the quicker it will kill you. It prefers a dark and damp environment and it doesn't like fire, so lighting a fire or using a spell like Bluebell Flames should drive it away.

Dittany Dittany is one of the plants found in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi and has been reported to have magical properties.

Fanged Geranium
The Fanged Geranium, that will bite humans, was featured on Harry's herbology O.W.L.

Flitterbloom
The flitterbloom resembles Devil's Snare in appearance, although it is not violent. Miriam Strout, a St. Mungo's healer on the Janus Thickey ward, mistook the Devil's Snare that killed Broderick Bode for a Flitterbloom.

Flutterby Bush
The flutterby bush quivers and shakes, and are regularly pruned in herbology classes.

Fluxweed
Fluxweed is an ingredient in the Polyjuice Potion, although it has to be picked at the full moon to be effective.

Gillyweed
Gillyweed is native to the Mediterranean and looks like a bundle of slimy, greyish-green rat tails. When eaten, the gillyweed water plant gives a person gills to breathe underwater and webbed hands and feet for swimming. The duration of the gillyweed effect is approximately one hour. Snape kept Gillyweed in his private stores, and is not available to the students at Hogwarts. The effects of gillyweed were first dicovered by Elladora Ketteridge, and then re-discovered a century later by Beaumont Marjoribanks.

Ginger
Ginger root is an ingredient in the Wit-Sharpening Potion.

Gurdyroot
According to Luna Lovegood, this plant, that looks like a green onion, is supposed to be good at warding off Gulping Plimpies.

Hellebore
Hellebore is a poisonous plant that is used as an ingredient in the Draught of Peace.

Holly
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Honking Daffodil
Professor Sprout has some of these, although some students, such as Lavender Brown, prefer the regular sort of daffodils.

Hornbeam
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Knotgrass
Knotgrass is an ingredient in the Polyjuice Potion.

Leaping Toadstool
Leaping Toadstools are used by second year herbology classes.

Lovage
Lovage is used in the Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts.

Mahogany
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Mallowsweet
Mallowsweet is burnt by centaurs so they can observe the fumes and flames made to refine the results of their stargazing.

Mandragora
See Mandrake.

Mandrake
The Mandrake root is a powerful restorative. It forms an essential part of most antidotes, including one for Petrification. The Mandrake Restorative Draft returns people who are transfigured or cursed to their original state. Mandrake seedlings are tufty little plants, purplish green in color with what look like tiny babies growing where the roots would be. These creatures grow and develop over the course of several months until they mature and can be harvested and used for potions. The cry of the Mandrake is fatal to humans, so special care must be taken when growing them. Even as a baby, the Mandrake's howls can knock a person out for a couple of hours. The Dugbog is particularly fond of eating Mandrakes.

Maple
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Mimbulus Mimbletonia
The Mimbulus Mimbletonia is a very rare plant that is native to Assyria. It resembles a grey cactus with boils where the spines would have been. The boils are a defensive mechanism that squirt Stinksap upon contact.

Monkshood
See aconite.

Nettle
The nettle is an ingredient in the Boil-Cure Potion, and was grown in Queerditch Marsh for nettle tea.

Oak
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands. Oaks also grow in the Forbidden Forest.

Privet
Privet is part of the olive family and is often grown as hedges in the Muggle world.

Puffapod
Puffapods are huge pink pods with seeds that burst into flower if they are dropped.

Pumpkin
Hagrid maintains the Hogwarts pumpkin patch outside his hut, which produces the pumpkins used to decorate the Great Hall for the Hallowe'en feast.

Rosewood
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Sage
Sage is burnt by centaurs so they can observe the fumes and flames made to refine the results of their stargazing.

Scurvy-grass
Scurvy-grass grows at the coast and used to be eaten by sailors to prevent scurvy. It is used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts.

Self-Fertilising Shrubs
Harry and the other fifth years wrote an essay for Professor Sprout on these plants.

Sneezewort
Sneezewort is used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts.

Umbrella-sized Flowers
Umbrella-sized flowers hang from the ceiling of Greenhouse Three.

Venomous Tentacula
The venomous tentacula is a spiky, dark red plant that reaches out for people with long vines. The Weasley twins bought pods from the Venomous Tentacula off of Mundungus Fletcher.

Willow
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.

Whomping Willow
The Whomping Willow resembles a regular willow, although it is large and violent and attacks anyone who gets too close.

Wolfsbane
See aconite.

Wormwood
Wormwood is a key ingredient in the Draught of Living Death.

Yew
A tree thats wood is of good enough quality to be used to make wands.















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