Template:Vegetation/doc

This template is the parent of Plant and Fungus and is not meant to be called directly. The Usage description of the parameters are defined here and transcluded into the child templates to keep from having duplicate documentation pages.

Parameters

 * image : Optional. An image of the plant or fungus. Typically use a standard [[File:]] tag with a width of 250px so it doesn't increase the width of the infobox.
 * caption: Optional. A brief explanation of what the image shows.
 * name : Required. Typically, the name of the page, each word capitalized.
 * othernames : Optional. What other countries or races call this plant or fungus.
 * nicknames : Optional. Colloquial, regional, or slang names
 * type : Optional. Tree, bush, grass, crop, flower, fungus, mold, mildew, moss, lichen, etc.
 * location : Optional. Where this plant or fungus grows, either geographical regions like "Northwest Faerûn", climate and terrain like "temperate swamps", or a specific venue like "corpse".
 * useon : Optional. Set to any value, the location will be preceded by "on", otherwise it default to "in". So do not set this if you want "Grows in Northwest Faerûn", but do set this if you want "Grows on corpses".
 * origin : Optional. If not a native, natural species, then the plane of existence, wizard's experiment, or alchemical accident from which the plant or fungus came.
 * value : Optional. The market value of a typical specimen.
 * usage : Optional. The typical way this plant or fungus is used, e.g., food, building material, light source, or tarrasque bait.
 * lifespan : Optional. How long the plant or fungus typically lives in the wild.
 * consumedby : Optional. If edible, then by whom?
 * poisonousto : Optional. If toxic, then to whom?
 * height : Optional. How high a typical specimen grows.
 * trunkdiameter : Optional. The width of an adult specimen, assuming a relatively circular trunk. Not used for Fungus.
 * leaftype : Optional. A description of the shape of the leaves. Not used for Fungus.
 * leafcolor : Optional. The color of the leaves. Not used for Fungus.
 * flowercolor : Optional. The color of the blooms. Not used for Fungus.
 * color : Optional. The overall color, for things that don't have leaves, flowers, stems, and trunks, like moss.
 * stemcolor : Optional. The color of the stem, could be mushroom, flower, or something else.
 * capcolor : Optional. The color of the cap, typically of mushrooms. Not used for Plant.
 * distinctions : Optional. Any other distinctive features, characteristics, or abilities.
 * first : Optional. Publication where this plant or fungus first appeared in the Realms.
 * based : Optional. The historical, contextual, or thematic basis for this plant or fungus.
 * nocat : Optional. Setting this to true will suppress the categories that this template automatically generates. Plant will place the page in Category:Vegetation and Category:Plants. Fungus will place the page in Category:Vegetation and Category:Fungi. This is typically only used on documentation pages like this one.