Syringea

Syringea is a plant that stabs zombies two tiles away with its needles. These needles have different effects that range from rarity, though they mostly end up as normal low-damage needles. To make up for its powerful needles, it needs to recharge after four syringes.

Overview
Syringea absorbs 4 normal damage bites and degrades upon the second bite. It stabs zombies on its lane with a syringe in a similar fashion to Cactus, but with melee instead of range. While the needles deal .75 damage per second, they leave an ailment on zombies. These ailments include:
 * Paralysis (zombies affected by this are unable to move)
 * Blindness (zombies affected by this occasionally move backwards and may change lanes)
 * Bloodloss (zombies affected by this are hurt slowly)
 * Hemophilia (zombies affected by this are hurt twice as much by sharp plants like Cactus)
 * Flu (spreads to zombies slower than Shadow-shroom's poison but deals more damage)
 * Regular (zombies just take the damage from the syringe with no ailment)
 * Fatigue (zombies affected by this move slower depending on where they are on the lawn)
 * Insanity (zombies affected by this move faster but occasionally attack other zombies)

It takes a Syringea 45 seconds to recharge its needles as a result.

Plant Food Effect
Fires syringes at all zombies onscreen in a similar fashion to Kernel-pult's Plant Food Effect. All of these syringes have random effects.

Almanac Entry
Toughness: Average

Recharge: Fast

Syringe injects zombies with vile diseases.

While he appears to be a doctor, he actually doesn't have a degree in medicine at all. He cheated his way through medical school.

Strategies
Put Syringeas behind defensive plants like Wall-nut to ensure your Syringeas are kept alive long enough for other zombies to defeat them. Don't use them as your only defense as certain zombies attack with range, making your Syringeas useless.

Trivia

 * Its name is a portmanteau of 'syringa' and 'syringe'.
 * Its idle animation involves Syringea swaying its syringe head left to right.
 * Syringea is based off of the syringa, commonly known as the common lilac.