Overview
Ellagance Snow is the white English lavender of the starter set, unlocking at Level 2. It is small (14 inches tall). The game tags it "White palette" and "Low floral biomass": good oil and aroma, but only 1-star Bundles.
Best uses
The cultivar record lists it as best for: Essential Oil, Fragrance.
Star ratings
Evidence level shown in the game: Cultivar-informed + modeled. Tags: White palette, Low floral biomass.
| Rating | Stars | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Oil | ★★★★☆ | Essential-oil potential; changes still recovery when you distill |
| Aroma | ★★★★☆ | Fine-fragrance quality for sachets, sprays and oils |
| Stems | ★★★☆☆ | Cut-stem grade for bouquets and bundles |
| Bundles | ★☆☆☆☆ | Harvest volume: more stems and flower units per cut |
| Display | ★★★★☆ | Wedding, photo and dried-flower appeal |
| Culinary | ★★★★☆ | Flavor suitability; 3 stars or more can be a culinary lot |
Harvest at full health
These are the game's predicted amounts from one healthy plant (100% health, no Harvest Tools upgrade, no woodiness). Lower health or a woody old plant gives less; the Harvest Tools upgrade gives up to 15% more. The game's yield number for Ellagance Snow is 31.
| Harvest use | Amount | XP |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh stems | 2 stems | 6 |
| Drying stems | 2 stems | 8 |
| Distillation crop | 2 flower units | 9 |
| Culinary lot | 1 culinary units | 10 |
Growing it
- Needs one unit of warm-weather growth per stage.
- Needs 10 chill weeks in winter before it can flower. Until then it waits at stage 3.
- Bloom record "summer", peak "summer". Before the game shifts it for your frost dates, the bud-and-bloom window runs from the week of May 27 to the week of Aug 26.
- Well suited in zones 5–8. Outside that range it grows at 72% speed and takes 20% more frost damage.
- After a harvest the plant drops back to stage 2 and regrows from its crown.
Tips
- With 4 Culinary stars it can be harvested as a culinary lot for food recipes.
- Hardy down to zone 5, so it suits most cold-winter farms.
See also
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