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Horsetail

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Horsetail
A bush, in Super Mario Maker.
Sprite from Super Mario Maker
First appearance Super Mario Bros. (1985)
Latest appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Derived subjects

Horsetails appear as narratively important plants in the original Super Mario Bros. and as a cooking ingredient in the Paper Mario series. They have made occasional appearances in contexts alluding to the original Super Mario Bros., such as the Super Mario Bros. style in Super Mario Maker or in the background of Piranha Plant Slide in Mario Kart 7.

HistoryEdit

Super Mario seriesEdit

 
Mario near two horsehair plants in World 2-1 of Super Mario Bros.

According to the original manual for Super Mario Bros., Bowser turned the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom into horsetail plants and bricks. However, the English manual renders this as "field horsehair plants."[1] They are the ovoid tree-like plants seen throughout the game[2] (specifically, Worlds 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8), which come in two sizes, and depending on the level's palette, can be either green or white (in Super Mario All-Stars, the white ones' appearance is due to snow), with both having a tan segmented stem. These plants are also seen in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (specifically, the odd-numbered and -lettered worlds), where they are now segmented themselves and have eyes; additionally, the ones in World A-1 appear in orange (but not in All-Stars). They also appear in several other games borrowing graphics from or basing certain stages on Super Mario Bros.; for example, in Super Mario Maker, horsetails occasionally pop up in the ground theme in the Super Mario Bros. style when placing ground tiles.

Paper Mario seriesEdit

Horsetail
     
The Thousand-Year Door description A plant found in Petal Meadows. Replenishes 3 HP.
Super Paper Mario description A spring reed that restores 7 HP and cures poison.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorEdit

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Horsetails are items that heal 3 HP. They are found in an area of Petal Meadows. Just before reaching the area with the bridge, coming from the Rogueport pipe, there is a Candy Pop that, when hit with a hammer, sinks down and bounces back up. After hitting the cane 10 times, a Horsetail comes out. This can be done several times, after exiting and re-entering the area.

Super Paper MarioEdit

In Super Paper Mario, Horsetails are items that restore 7 HP and cures poison. They are usually dropped by Putrid Piranhas. They can also be bought in the Itty Bits in The Dotwood Tree for 18 coins.

Mario Kart seriesEdit

As part of the course's "retro" aesthetic, horsetails appear in the final turn of Piranha Plant Slide in Mario Kart 7. They are replaced with standard trees in the course's reappearance in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, though they return to the course in Mario Kart Tour.

RecipesEdit

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorEdit

Recipe Result
  Horsetail +   Turtley Leaf   Healthy Salad
  Horsetail +   Mystic Egg   Omelette Meal
  Horsetail +   Mushroom   Zess Dinner
  Horsetail +   Super Mushroom
  Horsetail +   Life Mushroom
  Horsetail +   Ultra Mushroom   Zess Special

Super Paper MarioEdit

Recipe Result
  Horsetail   Roast Horsetail
  Horsetail +   Turtley Leaf   Koopa Pilaf
  Horsetail +   Big Egg   Omelette Plate
  Horsetail +   Cake Mix   Horsetail Tart
  Horsetail +   Fresh Pasta Bunch   Spaghetti Plate

GalleryEdit

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese つくし[3]
Tsukushi 		Horsetail
つくしんぼ[?]
Tsukushinbo 		From「土筆」(tsukushi, "horsetail") and possibly the affectionate suffix「~んぼ」(-nbo) Paper Mario series
Chinese (simplified) 马尾草[?]
Mǎwěi Cǎo 		Horsetail
Chinese (traditional) 馬尾草[?]
Mǎwěi Cǎo 		Horsetail
French Prêle[?] Horsetail
German Wurzel[?] Root
Italian Erba cavallina[4] Horse grass Super Mario Bros.
Coda cavallina[?] Horsetail Paper Mario item
Korean 쇠뜨기[?]
Soetteugi 		Horsetail
Spanish Cola de Caballo[?] Horsetail

ReferencesEdit

  Wikipedia has an article on horsetails.
  1. ^ Legends of Localization comparing the Japanese and North American storylines of Super Mario Bros.
  2. ^ Sase, Shinji, Howard Phillips, and Lynn Griffes, editors (1987). How to win at Super Mario Bros. (U.S. Edition). Redmond: Tokuma Shoten, Nintendo of America. ISBN 4-19-720003-XC. Page 6.
  3. ^ Super Mario Bros. Japanese instruction booklet. Page 4.
  4. ^ Super Mario Bros. Italian instruction booklet. Page 2.
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Ingredients
Paper Mario ingredients Apple • Blue Berry • Bubble Berry • Cake Mix • Coconut • Dried Fruit • Dried Pasta • Dried Shroom • Egg • Fire Flower • Goomnut • Honey Syrup • Iced Potato • Jammin' Jelly • Koopa Leaf • Lemon • Life Shroom • Lime • Maple Syrup • Melon • Mushroom • Potato Salad • Red Berry • Shroom Steak • Special Shake • Stinky Herb • Strange Leaf • Thunder Bolt • Ultra Shroom • Volt Shroom • Whacka Bump • Yellow Berry
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door ingredients Cake Mix • Coconut • Coconut Bomb • Couple's Cake • Courage Meal • Dried Bouquet • Dried Mushroom • Egg Bomb • Fire Flower • Fruit Parfait • Fresh Pasta • Golden Leaf • Gradual Syrup • Healthy Salad • Honey Syrup • Horsetail • Hot Sauce • Ice Storm • Inky Sauce • Jammin' Jelly • Keel Mango • Koopasta • Koopa Tea • Life Mushroom • Maple Syrup • Meteor Meal • Mr. Softener • Mushroom • Mushroom Fry • Mushroom Roast • Mushroom Steak • Mystic Egg • Peachy Peach • Point Swap • Poison Mushroom • Ruin Powder • Shooting Star • Slow Mushroom • Snow Bunny • Spaghetti • Spicy Soup • Super Mushroom • Tasty Tonic • Thunder Rage • Thunder Bolt • Trial Stew • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Mushroom • Volt Mushroom • Whacka Bump • Zess Dynamite • Zess Tea
Super Paper Mario ingredients Big Egg • Black Apple • Block Block • Blue Apple • Berry Snow Bunny • Bone-In Cut • Cake Mix • Chocolate Cake • Couple's Cake • Dayzee Tear • Dyllis Dinner • Egg Bomb • Fire Burst • Fresh Pasta Bunch • Fresh Veggie • Fried Shroom Plate • Fruity Hamburger • Gold Bar • Golden Leaf • Gorgeous Steak • Hamburger • Healthy Salad • Honey Candy • Honey Jar • Horsetail • Hot Sauce • Ice Storm • Inky Sauce • Keel Mango • Life Shroom • Long-Last Shake • Lovely Chocolate • Mango Juice • Meat Pasta Dish • Mild Cocoa Bean • Mousse • Mushroom Crepe • Mystery Box • Peachy Peach • Peach Juice • Pink Apple • Poison Shroom • POW Block • Power Steak • Primordial Fruit • Red Apple • Roast Shroom Dish • Sap Soup • Shooting Star • Shroom Shake • Shroom Steak • Sleepy Sheep • Slimy Shroom • Smelly Herb • Snow Bunny • Snow Cone • Spaghetti Plate • Spicy Soup • Super Shroom Shake • Thunder Rage • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Shroom Shake • Volt Shroom • Whacka Bump • Yellow Apple
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Non-playable characters Princess Toadstool • Mushroom retainers • Mushroom King • Miyukib • Takaakib • Noritakeb • KYON²b • Takeshib • Matchanb • Hidechanb • Worlds A-C humanb • Booc • Yoshic
Enemies Bloober • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Cheep-cheep • Enemy cloned • Hammer Brother • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Little Goomba • OkaPb • Pakkun OkaPb • Piranha plant • Podoboo • Spiny • Spiny's egg
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Bosses Fake Bowser • Bowser • Bowser's Brothera
Items and power-ups 1 up mushroom • Buzzy shell • Coin • Fire Flower • Fireball • Koopa shell • Hiranyab • Magic Mushroom • Poisonous Mushrooma • Red Coinc • Starman • Yoshi Eggc
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Other Mushroom Kingdom • Bowser's Castle
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a Introduced in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
b Exclusive to All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
c Exclusive to Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
d Exclusive to Super Mario Bros. 35
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Super Mario Bros. Special
Protagonists Mario • Mushroom retainer • Princess Peach
Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8
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Boss Bowser
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GCN) / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch) items
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Other Dramalama Plaque • Fat Dog • Gold Bar • Gold Bar × 3 • Inn Coupon • Marvelous Compass • Mushroom Full Course • Nitro Honey Syrup • Southern Fried Egg Dog of Tastiness • Star Piece • The Big Green 01
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Super Paper Mario items
Attack items Berry Snow Bunny • Bone-In Cut • Dyllis Dynamite • Egg Bomb • Electro Pop • Fire Burst • Fruit Parfait • Ghost Shroom • Hot Sauce • Ice Storm • Megaton Dinner • Meteor Meal • Mighty Tonic • POW Block • Shell Shock • Shooting Star • Snow Bunny • Snow Cone • Spicy Dinner • Spicy Pasta Dish • Spit Roast • Thunder Rage • Volcano Shroom • Volt Shroom
Defense items Block Block • Block Meal • Courage Shell • Koopasta Dish • Koopa Dumpling • Koopa Pilaf • Koopa Tea • Turtley Leaf
Attack and defense items Love Noodle Dish • Lovely Chocolate
Recovery items Awesome Snack • Big Egg • Black Apple • Blue Apple • Cake Mix • Choco Pasta Dish • Chocolate Cake • Dayzee Syrup • Dayzee Tear • Dried Shroom • Dyllis Breakfast • Dyllis Deluxe • Dyllis Dinner • Dyllis Lunch • Dyllis Special • Emergency Ration • Fresh Pasta Bunch • Fresh Veggie • Fried Egg • Fried Shroom Plate • Fruity Cake • Fruity Hamburger • Fruity Punch • Fruity Shroom • Gingerbread House • Golden Choco-bar • Golden Leaf • Golden Meal • Gorgeous Steak • Gradual Syrup • Hamburger • Healthy Salad • Heartful Cake • Herb Tea • Honey Candy • Honey Jar • Honey Shroom • Honey Super • Horsetail • Horsetail Tart • Hot Dog • Ink Pasta Dish • Inky Sauce • Inky Soup • Keel Mango • Life Shroom • Long-Last Shake • Luxurious Set • Mango Juice • Mango Pudding • Meat Pasta Dish • Mild Cocoa Bean • Miracle Dinner • Mistake (1) • Mixed Shake • Mousse • Mushroom • Mushroom Crepe • Odd Dinner • Omelette Plate • Peach Juice • Peach Tart • Peachy Peach • Pink Apple • Power Steak • Primordial Dinner • Primordial Fruit • Red Apple • Roast Horsetail • Roast Shroom Dish • Roast Whacka Bump • Sap Muffin • Sap Soup • Sap Syrup • Shroom Broth • Shroom Cake • Shroom Choco-bar • Shroom Delicacy • Shroom Pudding • Shroom Shake • Shroom Steak • Slimy Shroom • Smelly Herb • Space Food • Spaghetti Plate • Spicy Soup • Stamina Juice • Super Shroom • Super Shroom Shake • Sweet Choco-bar • Sweet Cookie Snack • Town Special • Ultra Shroom • Ultra Shroom Shake • Veggie Set • Warm Cocoa • Whacka Bump • Yellow Apple
Other Catch Card • Catch Card SP • Couple's Cake • Dangerous Delight • Gold Bar • Gold Bar x3 • Gold Medal • Happy Flower • Heavy Meal • HP Plus • Love Pudding • Mega Star • Mistake (Sleepy Sheep) • Mystery Box • Pal Pill • Poison Shroom • Power Plus • Sleepy Sheep • Slimy Extract • Slow Flower • Speed Flower • Standard Chocolate • Star Medal • Stop Watch • Trial Stew • Weird Extract
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