How to Find Cherry Trees in Minecraft

This guide offers everything you need to know about Cherry Blossom Trees, including where to find them, how to grow their saplings, and other useful crafting tips and details

Understanding Cherry Blossom Trees in Minecraft

Cherry Blossom Trees naturally grow in Cherry Grove Biomes, which are rare high-altitude areas in Minecraft. These biomes look similar to meadows and are usually found on the lower slopes of mountains or on small, flat plateaus. Cherry Blossom Trees are easy to spot with their soft pink leaves and curved branches. One of their most eye-catching features is the gentle petal effect, where pink petals slowly fall around them, creating a calm and peaceful atmosphere. Some trees also grow with several leafy canopies, each supported by its own branch, giving the tree a fuller and more unique shape.

Finding a Cherry Blossom Biome

To easily locate the Cherry Blossom Biome, make sure commands are enabled on your world or that you have permission to use commands on your server if it's being hosted that way.

💡Tip: To give yourself operator permissions on a server, open the server console, type op YOURUSERNAME into the text box, and press Enter. For more help, check out our step-by-step guide here!

1. Open your in-game chat by pressing T.

2. Type the following command: /locate biome cherry_grove and press Enter (This will display the coordinates of the nearest Cherry Grove Biome.)

3. Click on the green coordinates that appear in chat to autofill a teleport command, then press Enter to teleport directly to the Biome.

⚠️Warning: Teleporting to a Biome may occasionally place you inside blocks or underground. If this happens, switch to Creative mode by using the /gamemode creative command in-game, then dig your way up to the surface.

Need further help finding the Cherry Grove Biome? Our detailed Help Article walks you through the process step by step, with or without using commands.

Getting and Using Cherry Blossom Saplings

Without Commands

Once you find a Cherry Grove biome, go ahead and chop down a Cherry Blossom Tree. Make sure to break all the wood from the tree so the leaves can start to disappear on their own. As that happens, Cherry Saplings will begin to fall. Just walk over the saplings to collect them and they’ll be added to your inventory for later.

💡Tip: If you don’t see any saplings right away, try another tree. It might take a few tries to get what you need.

With Commands

To get Cherry Saplings for yourself or others, you have two easy options.

1. Using Creative Mode:

Open the chat and type /gamemode creative, then press Enter.
Press E to open your inventory and click on the compass to the right.
In the search bar, type Cherry Sapling.
Drag the sapling into your inventory hotbar.
- You can drop the saplings for others too if needed.

2. Using the `/give` Command:

Open the chat by pressing T and type: /give USERNAME cherry_sapling
- Replace "USERNAME" with your name or the name of the player you want to give the sapling to.
- To give a player more than one Cherry Sapling, just add the number you want at the end of the command.
  - For example: /give SGH cherry_sapling 5 This will give the player named a total of 5 Cherry Saplings.

To use the Cherry Sapling, it'll need to be planted on one of the following blocks:

Coarse Dirt
Dirt
Farmland
Grass Block
Moss Block
Mud
Muddy Mangrove Roots
Mycelium
Pale Moss Block
Podzol
Rooted Dirt

To grow a Cherry Tree:

Make sure there’s a 5×5 space and at least 8 blocks of air above the sapling (9 blocks total including the sapling).
- It’s okay to plant the sapling in a 1-block deep hole. You don’t need to clear space around it. Logs, leaves, or nearby saplings won’t stop it from growing.
If you have the resources, use bonemeal on the planted saplings to help them grow faster!
- You can plant a bunch of saplings side by side to grow one massive Cherry Blossom Tree!🌸🌳

💡Tip: If there’s a flower within 2 blocks, there’s a small (5%) chance the tree will grow with a bee nest and 2–3 bees 🐝.

Items You Can Get from Cherry Trees

Here’s a list of items you can get from harvesting Cherry Trees:

ITEM	DESCRIPTION
Cherry Log	Collected by breaking the trunk of the tree. Can be harvested with any tool, even by hand.
Cherry Leaves	Can be gathered using shears.
Cherry Sapling	May drop when Cherry Leaves are broken naturally or manually.
Stick	Has a chance to drop when breaking Cherry Leaves.
Bee Nest	May appear on Cherry Trees that grow near flowers. Contains 2–3 bees if present.

Items You Can Craft from Cherry Trees

Now that you've cut down some Cherry Trees, you can use the wood to craft these items:

ITEM	RESOURCES	CRAFTING RECIPE
Cherry Wood	(4) Cherry Logs
Stripped Cherry Log	(1) Axe	Right-click logs with axe
Stripped Cherry Wood	(1) Axe	Right-click wood with axe
Cherry Planks	(1) Cherry Log
Cherry Stairs	(6) Cherry Planks
Cherry Slab	(3) Cherry Planks
Cherry Fence	(4) Cherry Planks (2) Sticks
Cherry Fence Gate	(2) Cherry Planks (4) Sticks
Cherry Door	(6) Cherry Planks
Cherry Trapdoor	(6) Cherry Planks
Cherry Pressure Plate	(2) Cherry Planks
Cherry Button	(1) Cherry Planks
Cherry Sign	(6) Cherry Planks (1) Stick
Cherry Hanging Sign	(6) Cherry Stripped Logs (2) Chains
Cherry Boat	(5) Cherry Planks
Cherry Boat w/ Chest	(1) Cherry Boat (1) Chest