Mutating plants

Is there a way to predict the outcome when mutating plants or is it completely random?

It doesn't seem completely random, but it is certainly disappointing at times!

When you you mutat a flower and it turns into just a regular flower you can keep mutating it and it eventually will turn into a rare one. Though I have found out that it may take several.

Do either of you know if all plants eventually spawn new plants? IOW after planting the very rare seed, will it eventually produce a 2nd of itself?

I think you have more coins than I do!

Good question. I know Sunflowers can spawn new Sunflowers; that's tier 3. I have a decorative bunch of Roseacea Ferns in front of one peep's house and they spawned something brown last night. I will have to see what it turns out to be before I can say definitively that I have seen a tier 4 self-spawn.

It's not random. There's actually a map that someone posted on the VT Facebook group that shows how the mutation works. Each plant can turn into two different plants. I'll see if I can find it.

That's the mutating map for the flowers in VT, which posted by Anna Morosan in the VT Friends group.
Here is her message

That is a terribly confusing 'map' this early in the morning, I'll have to look at it when I've been awake for a awhile longer. Has anyone posted a clearer map than that? While the pic is nice, I'd prefer a spreadsheet personally.

Thanks Hydra14. I completely forgot to post it!

VirtuallyMe, this is the explanation I posted on FB on how to interpret the map:

Thank you @sunshower, that does help :-)

If you mutate, then choose an ordinary flower so you at least stand some chance of getting something rarer. I once mutated a rarer flower only to get a lemon maranta.

A lemon maranta? That stinks!

I was playing around with the plant mutation liquid and it made me wonder if there are rare plants that you cannot get by using the plant mutation on them. Like a plant that only exists because of two plants combining while being close together?

Or can they all be made by mutation?

They can all be made with the mutation liquid-I have four games going, and I used it to finish the plant collection in all four.

All plants can be made by mutation - you can tell from the map.

OK, thank you, just wanted to be sure. I wish my plants would self spawn (?) Seems like they don't do much without help. I even used the pollination liquid on five or six about a week ago and still nothing.

If you're trying to create more of a particular plant, plant them in a tight group and wait a few days. I have gardens with each of the rare plants in groups and I have twice as many of each kind now. The ones with spaces between them didn't do much of anything. Each house has a rare plant garden that's replicating steadily.

That's my technique with the ultra-rare plants, too. I'm not sure I would use the word "steadily", but I am building a stockpile slowly but surely.

I like your idea and will do that but what I thought was supposed to happen was that a 'new' plant would eventually grow between two 'different type' plants. Instead of having to always use the mutation liquid.

So, I was hoping that if I first used the liquid to get some new plants, then placed them in a checkerboard pattern that I would get even more new types. After about 3 days of nothing happening at all, I sprayed each with the pollination spray.

Been over a week since I did that and still absolutely nothing.

I used something on some of my plants a while back as an experiment (can't remember which item it was now) and all it did was make the plants larger & have sparkly dots on them. Is that an intended result?

It means they're more fertile now.

And yet they don't seem to reproduce...

True. I should have said "technically it means they're more fertile." I never saw a difference either.

Finally had time to work on this. So the way I understand it is.. Results of mutating a plant can be predicted thusly:
Plant #1 (Mela Rare Oak) will mutate into #2 (Four Petal Maple) OR #15 (Red Berries Cactus). Mutating plant #2 (Four Petal Maple) results in either #1 (Mela Rare Oak) OR #3 Cactusbali Bamboo Tree, etc etc but what about plants #14 (Green Ivy Lotus) & #23 (Tahitian Ridged Cactus)? What do they mutate into?

...and does mutating plant #15 (Red Berries Cactus) give you either #1 (Mela Rare Oak) OR #16 (Hibiscus Tiered Cactus)

Yes, that's correct.

As far as I know, the Green Ivy Lotus only mutates into the Goldenberries Caladium and the Tahitian Ridged Cactus only mutates into the Roseceae Fern. I've used the mutation liquid on those and have never gotten anything else. It may be possible that they mutate into each other, but I personally haven't seen it happen.

Been building a spreadsheet of Virtual Town plants & what they mutate into including images. I am currently missing #20 (White Orchid Pitcher Plant), #21 (Tiger Lily Willow Tree) & #22 (Rosacea Fern) Does anyone have images of those 3 plants they'd like to share? Below is what I have so far. Anyone have corrections?

I have number 20, the White Orchid Pitcher plant. I took an in game screen shot and managed to figure out how to edit it somewhat, although not as well as you have. How do I get it to you?

You could post it here & I'll take it from there :-)

I work twelve hour days Saturday and Sunday, so I won't have time before Monday, sorry. Also, I have never uploaded a picture to this site (that I can remember, anyway) so could you explain how or give me a link to instructions? BTW, the fortune teller helped with that plant, tee hee hee.

Instructions are Here

I got it! Yay! I'll try to get a picture of the Tiger Lily up this week sometime.

Here's the Tiger Lily

Very Cool! Thanks @Simsane!

So those pictures will work? And you are very welcome! ☺

Yup! Got them cropped & added to my spreadsheet. Now I'm trying to figure out if/how I can post the spreadsheet here while avoiding spamming the place.

Now I only need the Rosecea Fern. :-)

That's great! If I end up with the Rosacea Fern somehow, I'll let you know.

I've been trying to get new ones strictly through natural plant mutation instead of using the stuff in the store. So far no luck with the really rare or Tier 4 plants but several Tier 3 plants.

Virtual Town Plant List/Mutations/Spawnings



I will post new images as I update this spreadsheet

This is great! I'm only missing number 19 and 23. But now I know which plants to use the mutation liquid on to try to get them.

Here's the Roseceae Fern.

I really hope there's an update to this game soon. I hardly play anymore.

That's pretty!

Thank you @Sunshower!!

New Version!!!



Sorry the bottom is kind of cut-off, I'll try to fix that as I update it. Hope this is helpful to everyone!

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I see you're using dropbox, which is a site that doesn't support hotlink.
You better use another site instead.
I use "directupload" because it supports hotlink and your image never gets deleted.

Sorry about that. Hopefully these cactus photos work.

Thank you for the cactus image, archi. Your picture is better than mine, so I'll swap them out & it will be in my next post. In the mean time, here is my latest copy:

PDF Version

As a side note, if you continue to scroll down in the PDF you will find there are more pages. In all there are lists of plant mutations, my observations on what plants have spontaneously seeded themselves & next to what other plants, & insects & their habits/habitats.

Link isn't working, I got an error message.

What was the error message?

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Thanks for your work, I hope the link can be fixed!

Ooooh thanks for the PDF file.. now back to mutation.. favourite part of my game, mutation experiments.. I love my Botanical Garden I can spend allot of time there and different areas of my lawn...I just learned things I didn't know and now though I'm overwhelmed with one particular kind. I see I can mutate back to something other than just the orginal common.. thank you....

FWIW the link is working for me.

Updated PDF

Hi VirtuallyMe! Is there any way you can re-post that PDF? When I click on the link it says:

Sorry, the time limit of this canvas has expired.

If not, I'll find some other way to get the information, even if I have to save and print the one on this site a few screens back.

I've been playing VT for some months now. My stats are this:
Current population: 10
Cap. Project comp: 5 (all)
Town features: 46
Trees: 175
Plants: 685
Mayors: 18
Steps: 823,268

Minerals: there are 4 groups of minerals in the museum. Going left to right, I have all but the last one in the 3rd group. If anyone knows the name of this mineral, I'd appreciate if you would post it.

Plants: there are 6 groups in the museum counting upper left to lower right. This may be misleading since the plant names are in different colors. Group 1 is white ( these are the seeds you buy in the general store). Group 2 the names are in blue, groups 3 and 4 are pink and groups 5 and 6 are green. I have no idea what the significance of the name color is. I have all the plants.

Bugs: there are 3 groups of bugs going left to right in the museum. I have all but the last one in the 2nd group and the last one in the 3rd group. Again, I would appreciate if someone would post the names of each of these 2 bugs.

Comments on breeding.
There are 5 original plants in the general store. Taking these plants 2x2, they should produce 10 different hybrids. Assuming the name color is a code, there is no group of 10 plants that have the same name color. What this tells me is that at least one of the "white" plants (plant withe a white name) is not a purebred plant, but a hybrid. They may all be hybrids for that matter. This makes predicting what the offspring of two different plants nearly impossible because of the limitation to 700 plants. What is more revealing is to cross two plants if the same variety and see what they produce. My experience with the Daisy Lemonbush is that it produces only itself, leading me to believe that it may be a purebred. Still working this train of thought.

Comments appreciated.

The bugs etc are in different places for each player. I think it's the order you catch them, in subsets.
You're probably missing the banana slug or worm.
See the thread I started with complete lists, and you can tell by the process of elimination.

Nice job. Thanks

Hey guys! I'm new here so let me know if this is helpful. I have compiled a list of which plants mutate to which plants.

viola cactus ball=jalapa tree or hibiscus tiered cactus
four petal maple=mela rare oak or cactusbali bamboo tree
lemon maranta=blackberry ananas or houstonia banana tree
green ivy lotus=goldenberries caladium or ? (i think only 1 mutation)
lime daffodil=black orchid or sunflower fern
redberries cactus=mela rare oak or hibiscus tiered cactus
daisy lemonbush=cactusbali bamboo tree or houstonia banana tree
blue flower lemongrass=goldenberries caladium or black orchid
blue rose rosebush=blackberry ananas or sunflower fern
houstonia banana tree=daisy lemonbush or lemon maranta
goldenberries caladium=green ivy lotus or blue flower lemongrass
sunflower fern=blue rose rosebush or lime daffodil
mela rare oak=redberries cactus or four petal maple
cactusbali bamboo tree=mela rare oak or four petal maple
black orchis=blue flower lemongrass or lime daffodil
hibiscus tiered cactus=viola cactus ball or redberries cactus
blackberry ananas=blue rose rosebush or lemon maranta
jalapa tree=viola cactus ball or arthurium tiger fern
tigerlily willow tree=white orchid pitcher or roseceae
arthurium tiger fern=jalapa tree or white orchid pitcher
tahitian ridged cactus=roseceae or ? (i think only 1 mutation)
roseceae=tigerlily willow tree or tahitian ridged cactus
white orchid pitcher=arthurium tiger fern or tigerlily willow tree

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Hello B413, Welcome here, i hope you'll have good time
And thanks for the list.
But i'm asumming that you didn't read the forum rules,

This part of your post violates the following section of rules;


You can edit it though, Good day

How do you collect the seeds once you've pollinated them?

You can't collect seeds like you did in PT. Seeds can only be obtained from general store, citizens and cinema.
When you plant them together and water everyday, a hyrbird will spawn near them (Pollinating increases the chance).

I'm trying to get the golden berries. Does anyone know what plants will make it or which plant to mutate

Says sorry time is up on this!