Stem Cell

The Stem Cell is a plant created by your friendly neighborhood ScourgesCustomPlants. Stem Cells copy the abilities of plants nearby them, but need sun to morph.

Suburban Almanac Entry
Everyone thinks Stem Cell is so needy. He gobbles up sun and does a half-rooted job of stealing somebody's gig, but Stem Cell is always eager to defend himself. "I only take what I need and do my best," he insists. He's still pretty needy.

Plant Food
If there is an empty space in a 3x3 area around Stem Cell, a Stem Cell is created in that space.

Strategies
Stem Cells can prove useful if used correctly. Stem Cells should ideally be used to imitate expensive plants with long recharges, but not defensive plants. With any transformation, they still maintain their single hit point while assuming the function of another plant. Stem Cells also require half of the sun cost of the plant being copied to copy the plant. Simply tap the Stem Cell and tap the plant (in a 3x3 area of the Stem Cell) that should be imitated and the Stem Cell takes the sun and assumes the function of the plant.

As a sidenote, Stem Cells cannot copy Stem Cells not copying a plant's function, but if a Stem Cell is copying a Stem Cell that is copying a plant, the Stem Cell copying the other Stem Cell's ability treats the other Stem Cell as the plant itelf.

Trivia

 * Stem Cell is a portmanteau of stem and stem cell, a cell that assumes the function of other cells near it.