Poplar Leaves

Poplar Leaves

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tools
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial (diffuses sky light)
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Map color	28 COLOR_RED  15 COLOR_ORANGE  18 COLOR_YELLOW
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Poplar leaves are leaves that form the canopy of poplar trees with yellow, orange, and red color variants that do not change with the biome.

Obtaining

Breaking

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

Block	Poplar Leaves
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Wooden	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Stone	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Copper	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Iron	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Diamond	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Netherite	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Golden	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Shears	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Sword	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Without shears, poplar leaves can drop 1 poplar sapling and 1—2 sticks. Fortune increases the chances.

Drop	No Fortune	Fortune I	Fortune II	Fortune III
Poplar Sapling	5% (1⁄20)	6.25% (1⁄16)	8.33% (1⁄12)	10% (1⁄10)
1-2 Sticks	2% (1⁄50)	2.22% (1⁄45)	2.5% (1⁄40)	3.33% (1⁄30)

Natural generation

Poplar leaves form the canopy of any standing poplar tree. A poplar tree can have either yellow, orange, or red poplar leaves with equal distribution. They are also generated as part of abandoned camps in dappled forests.

Post-generation

A canopy with a random color of poplar leaves generates as part of poplar trees grown from poplar saplings.

Usage

Poplar leaves that decay have the same drop chances as when broken by a player, yielding 1 poplar sapling 5% (¹⁄₂₀) of the time, and 1-2 sticks 2% of the time. Leaves that are burned do not drop saplings.

Unlike most other leaves, poplar leaves do not change their color based on the biome they are placed in, but always remain red, orange, or yellow. They also do not become white during snowfall.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Leaf Litter	Red Poplar Leaves or  Orange Poplar Leaves or  Yellow Poplar Leaves + Any fuel	0.1

Redstone component

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

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.

Piston interactivity

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

Composting

Poplar 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.

Particles

Poplar leaves produce falling leaves particles underneath the leaf block, where they slowly fall to the ground. Falling poplar leaves particles have the same color as they leaves block they fall from.

Ambient sounds

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. The ambient sounds emitted can be heard from up to 12 blocks.

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

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

poplar_leaves sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.poplar_leaves.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.poplar_leaves.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.poplar_leaves.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.2	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.poplar_leaves.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	block.poplar_leaves.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

poplar_leaves sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.poplar_leaves.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.8	1.2
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.poplar_leaves.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8
	​Block breaking	Players	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.poplar_leaves.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	1.0	0.8
	​Something falls on a block	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.poplar_leaves.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	1.0	0.75
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	block.poplar_leaves.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Jumping	Players	Jumping from the block	block.poplar_leaves.jump	subtitles.block.generic.jump​	0.4	1.0
	​Landing	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	block.poplar_leaves.land	subtitles.block.generic.land​	0.4	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Red Poplar leaves	red_poplar_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.red_poplar_leaves
Orange Poplar Leaves	orange_poplar_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.orange_poplar_leaves
Yellow Poplar Leaves	yellow_poplar_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.yellow_poplar_leaves

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Block tags	Translation key
Red Poplar Leaves	red_poplar_leaves	None	1400	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1145)	minecraft:is_hoe_item_destructible minecraft:leaves	tile.red_poplar_leaves.name
Orange Poplar Leaves	orange_poplar_leaves	None	1399	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1144)	minecraft:is_hoe_item_destructible minecraft:leaves	tile.orange_poplar_leaves.name
Yellow Poplar Leaves	yellow_poplar_leaves	None	1401	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1146)	minecraft:is_hoe_item_destructible minecraft:leaves	tile.yellow_poplar_leaves.name

History

Announcement

May 30, 2026							Poplar leaves were shown at Minecraft Live – May 2026 with three color variants, each appearing in two iterations

Java Edition

Java Edition
26.3			snap1				Added red, orange, and yellow poplar leaves.
							Poplar leaves now generate as part of abandoned camps.
			snap2				Red, orange, and yellow poplar leaves have their updated map colors. Previously, they were all  7 PLANT.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Added red, orange, and yellow poplar leaves.
							Poplar leaves now generate as part of abandoned camps.
			Preview 26.40.30				Updated ambient sounds for poplar leaves.
							Added custom sound events for poplar leaves. Previously, they used the same sounds as leaf litter, with no difference in sounds.
26.50 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.50.20				Poplar leaves now have unique subtitles for "jump on block" and "land on block".
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.
			Preview 26.50.24				Poplar leaves can now be transformed into leaf litter in the furnace.

Issues

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

Trivia

• 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 saplings without being destroyed due to creation of leaf blocks not supported by logs.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  Red poplar leaves with "See-Through Leaves" turned off in Java Edition
• 
  Orange
• 
  Yellow
• 
  Red poplar leaves with "Fancy Leaves" disabled in Bedrock Edition
• 
  Orange
• 
  Yellow