Leaves

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 "Oak Leaves BE.png",
 "Spruce Leaves.png",
 "Spruce Leaves BE.png",
 "Birch Leaves.png",
 "Birch Leaves BE.png",
 "Jungle Leaves.png",
 "Jungle Leaves BE.png",
 "Acacia Leaves.png",
 "Acacia Leaves BE.png",
 "Dark Oak Leaves.png",
 "Dark Oak Leaves BE.png",
 "Mangrove Leaves.png",
 "Mangrove Leaves BE.png",
 "Cherry Leaves.png",
 "Cherry Leaves BE.png",
 "Pale Oak Leaves.png",
 "Pale Oak Leaves BE.png",
 "Azalea Leaves.png",
 "Azalea Leaves BE.png",
 "Flowering Azalea Leaves.png",
 "Flowering Azalea Leaves BE.png",
 "Red Poplar Leaves.png",
 "Red Poplar Leaves BE.png",
 "Orange Poplar Leaves.png",
 "Orange Poplar Leaves BE.png",
 "Yellow Poplar Leaves.png",
 "Yellow Poplar Leaves BE.png"
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Leaves are transparent blocks that generate as part of trees and are sources of their respective saplings. They dissipate over time when not attached to logs, but persist when placed by players. Falling-leaf particles occasionally drop from leaves.

Hoes are the default tools for breaking leaves, but leaves can be obtained only with shears or tools enchanted with Silk Touch.

Each type of leaves occurs naturally on their respective type of trees throughout the Overworld. In addition to this:

👁 BlockSprite oak-leaves.png: Sprite image for oak-leaves in Minecraft
Oak

Oak leaves generate as part of:

• Jungle bushes
• Plains villages
• Trial chambers
• Abandoned camps​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

👁 BlockSprite dark-oak-leaves.png: Sprite image for dark-oak-leaves in Minecraft
Dark Oak

Dark oak leaves generate as part of woodland mansions.

👁 BlockSprite birch-leaves.png: Sprite image for birch-leaves in Minecraft
Birch

Birch leaves generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests, flower forests and forests.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

👁 BlockSprite jungle-leaves.png: Sprite image for jungle-leaves in Minecraft
Jungle

Jungle leaves generate as part of abandoned camps in bamboo jungles.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

👁 BlockSprite mangrove-leaves.png: Sprite image for mangrove-leaves in Minecraft
Mangrove

Mangrove leaves generate as part of trial chambers.

👁 BlockSprite cherry-leaves.png: Sprite image for cherry-leaves in Minecraft
Cherry

Cherry leaves generate as part of abandoned camps in cherry groves.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

👁 BlockSprite poplar-leaves.png: Sprite image for poplar-leaves in Minecraft
Poplar

Poplar leaves generate as part of abandoned camps in dappled forests.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

Leaves generate as part of trees grown from saplings, azaleas, or mangrove propagules.

Leaves from trees spontaneously decay (disappear) when they receive a block tick if they are not connected to any log or wood blocks, stripped or otherwise, either directly or via other leaf blocks, with a maximum distance of 6 blocks‌^{[Java Edition only]} or 4 blocks‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. In Java Edition, this is determined using the prevents_nearby_leaf_decay block tag, whereas in Bedrock Edition, the list of blocks is hardcoded. The distance is taxicab distance, but can cross corners. Leaves placed by players never decay. Bamboo does not count as a log for this purpose.

Leaves that decay, or are destroyed without using Silk Touch or shears, yield saplings 5% (¹⁄₂₀) of the time, sticks 2% of the time, and otherwise nothing. Jungle leaves drop saplings 2.5% (¹⁄₄₀) of the time. Oak and dark oak leaves also have a separate but additional 0.5% (¹⁄₂₀₀) chance of dropping an apple, making it extremely rare but possible for a single leaf to drop a sapling, a stick and an apple at the same time. Rates are increased by the Fortune enchantment. Leaves that are burned do not yield saplings or apples.

Oak, jungle, acacia, dark oak, and mangrove leaves take on a different shade of green depending on the biome in which they are placed.

Leaves are always transparent to light but cannot be seen through when the graphics is set to "Fast" or fancy leaves are turned off; the transparent regions are instead dark green. They diffuse sky light, causing the shadows they cast under trees.

Leaf blocks can be waterlogged although they are full blocks. Water does not spread out‌^{[Java Edition only]}, and waterlogged leaves follow the same rules as any other waterlogged block. When concrete powder is placed on any side of the waterlogged leaves it turns into concrete, and the leaf block remains waterlogged.

Although leaves behave as solid blocks by preventing entities from moving through them, they also behave as non-solid, in that leaves do not prevent chests from opening.

Applying bone meal to mangrove leaves with a space beneath produces a hanging mangrove propagule with age=0.

The state of a leaves block—including a player-placed block—changes after 1 game tick (half a redstone tick) when the distance to the nearest log or wood block changes, up to 6 blocks of leaves away. Observers facing away from the leaves detect this change and transmit a redstone signal in the same game tick, making leaves useful for redstone signal transmission. This has been called "Leafstone" by the Minecraft Community.

Leaves are destroyed when pushed by pistons. They do not stick to sticky pistons, slime blocks, or honey blocks.

Most types of leaves have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. A stack of leaves yields an average of 3.05 bone meal. The exception are flowering azalea leaves, which have a 50% chance of increasing the compost level (a stack of those yields 4.92 pieces of bone meal on average).

Flowering azaleas leaves and cherry leaves function like any other flowers in their interaction and uses with bees.

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of flowering azalea leaves or cherry leaves have a 5% chance to grow with bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

• In the inventory, 👁 BlockSprite oak-leaves.png: Sprite image for oak-leaves in Minecraft
  oak, 👁 BlockSprite jungle-leaves.png: Sprite image for jungle-leaves in Minecraft
  jungle, 👁 BlockSprite acacia-leaves.png: Sprite image for acacia-leaves in Minecraft
  acacia, and 👁 BlockSprite dark-oak-leaves.png: Sprite image for dark-oak-leaves in Minecraft
  dark oak leaves are colored
   #48b518 in Java Edition, or use pre-colored textures in Bedrock Edition.
• In the inventory, 👁 BlockSprite mangrove-leaves.png: Sprite image for mangrove-leaves in Minecraft
  mangrove leaves are colored
   #92c648 in Java Edition, or use pre-colored textures in Bedrock Edition..
• 👁 BlockSprite spruce-leaves.png: Sprite image for spruce-leaves in Minecraft
  Spruce leaves are colored
   #619961, and are not affected by biome or inventory color.^[1]
• 👁 BlockSprite birch-leaves.png: Sprite image for birch-leaves in Minecraft
  Birch leaves are colored
   #80a755, and are not affected by biome or inventory color.^[1]
• 👁 BlockSprite azalea-leaves.png: Sprite image for azalea-leaves in Minecraft
  Azalea, 👁 BlockSprite flowering-azalea-leaves.png: Sprite image for flowering-azalea-leaves in Minecraft
  flowering azalea, 👁 BlockSprite cherry-leaves.png: Sprite image for cherry-leaves in Minecraft
  cherry, 👁 BlockSprite pale-oak-leaves.png: Sprite image for pale-oak-leaves in Minecraft
  pale oak, and 👁 BlockSprite orange-poplar-leaves.png: Sprite image for orange-poplar-leaves in Minecraft
  poplar leaves are not colored.

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. In Bedrock Edition, biome colors also appear on maps.

In any biome with a base temperature of below 0.15, all biome-tinted leaves gradually fade to white once snowfall begins, giving them a frosted appearance for the storm's duration. During transition, the white color is blended with the regular color in eight steps. After snowfall ends, leaves gradually fade back to their normal coloration.

This does not affect leaves in biomes with a higher base temperature, even at altitudes that allow snowfall. Cherry, azalea, flowering azalea, pale oak, and poplar leaves are not affected as their colors are based on the texture instead of colormaps.^[2][3] The change is entirely invisible to the client if the graphics mode is set to Simple, though it still takes place, and leaves are the correct color phase for the time if the option is re-enabled.

All types of leaves (except spruce​^{[upcoming: JE 26.3]}) have their own falling leaves particle which are produced underneath the leaf block, where they slowly fall to the ground.

Leaf particles from biome-tinted leaves have the same color as the leaves they're falling from, which can change with the biome or during snowfall.‌^{[BE only]} Cherry, pale oak, and all poplar leaves have pre-colored textures, azalea leaves use a hard-coded color.​^{[more information needed]}

• 👁 Particles falling from cherry leaves
  
  Particles falling from cherry leaves
• 👁 Particles falling from pale oak leaves
  
  Particles falling from pale oak leaves

Poplar leaves occasionally emit ambient sounds when they are surrounded by a non-stripped log of any kind and 3 poplar leaves of the same color in all 4 horizontal directions.

• 👁 Requirements for the central red poplar leaves to emit ambient sounds
  
  Requirements for the central red poplar leaves to emit ambient sounds

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• 👁 Old leaves texture.
  
  Old leaves texture.

Issues relating to "Leaves" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Occasionally, leaves grow through other blocks, acting as though they are still connected to the tree. They may also completely replace blocks they try to grow into.
• Some trees seem to occasionally drop apples or saplings without being destroyed due to creation of leaf blocks not supported by logs.

Snowy leaves

• 👁 Oak Leaves
  
  Oak Leaves
• 👁 Spruce Leaves
  
  Spruce Leaves
• 👁 Birch Leaves
  
  Birch Leaves
• 👁 Jungle Leaves
  
  Jungle Leaves
• 👁 Acacia Leaves
  
  Acacia Leaves
• 👁 Dark Oak Leaves
  
  Dark Oak Leaves
• 👁 Mangrove Leaves
  
  Mangrove Leaves

• 👁 A timelapse of leaves becoming frosted at the start of snowfall in Bedrock Edition.
  
  A timelapse of leaves becoming frosted at the start of snowfall in Bedrock Edition.
• 👁 A red mushroom is seen growing on the top of leaves.
  
  A red mushroom is seen growing on the top of leaves.
• 👁 A player in Bedrock Edition grew a cherry tree and went inside of it.
  
  A player in Bedrock Edition grew a cherry tree and went inside of it.

• 👁 Leaves in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Leaves in A Minecraft Movie.