Green Thumb: How Many Seedling Types Are There?
Nineteen, from one third-party count. No roster of seedling names has been published anywhere, including here — the honest answer and what it would take to improve it.
Green Thumb, in the game’s own words: “Obtain every type of seedling.” Valve’s live global unlock rate is 4.7% of owners, re-read daily rather than typed here.
The answer
Nineteen types, per a single third-party count that this site has not verified. Nobody has published the names, so there is no checklist to work from — only a target.
How well attested the count is · Single-source. One counter published the figure, and their own category totals do not sum to the total they state.
No checklist
There is no published list, here or anywhere
No source anywhere publishes seedling names. The count exists; the list does not. Inventing nineteen plausible plant names to fill a table would produce exactly the kind of page this site was built to avoid — and it would be undetectable to a reader, which is what makes it worth refusing.
The one thing Valve settles, and the one it does not
Valve's text says "every type of seedling", which establishes that seedlings are a countable set with types rather than a pile of identical pickups. That is genuinely useful — it means the achievement asks for variety and not volume, so grinding the same seedling will not advance it. What Valve does not do is publish how many types there are, and no first-party source anywhere does.
Why a type count and a pickup count are different numbers
This trips people up on exactly this achievement. "Every type" can be satisfied by nineteen distinct seedlings even if the world contains far more seedling pickups than nineteen — and a guide counting pickups will publish a much larger number for what sounds like the same thing. Nothing establishes which kind of count the nineteen is, so treat it as the target and check your own in-game tally against it.
What would improve this page
One screenshot of the seedling section of a completed inventory. That is all. It would produce the names, settle whether nineteen is right, and turn this page into a checklist. Until someone takes it, a target without a list is the whole honest answer.
Cross-reference
How this sits in the collectible taxonomy
Valve says "every type", which is not necessarily every instance — a type count and a pickup count can differ, and nothing establishes which 19 is. The tracker on /collectibles/ counts this set as 19, and carries the standing caveat that the counting source’s own categories do not sum to the total it states.
Common questions
Sources for this page
- Steam Community achievement statistics for Beast of Reincarnation — First-party. Supplies the verbatim achievement text that establishes this set as completable, and the global unlock percentage quoted above. Re-checked daily by a cron job rather than typed here.
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