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If a player chopped a tree with an axe, leaving a big wedge cut into it, could it be healed with say, a cleric's Cure Wounds?

It says a 'Creature', which I would suppose means any living thing, although I guess undead are also creatures since it has an explicit comment about the spell not working on them.

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    I've marked this as a duplicate because I believe the base-line questions are fundamentally the same ("Are plants creatures?"). If you disagree or require addition help, please let us know in the comments or [edit] your question to further specify what's unclear. Please also note that there's nothing wrong with asking duplicate questions (as long as your not just copy/pasting them word for word) as they help other people who may be searching for a particular question using different keywords. – Purple Monkey Nov 19 '19 at 09:38
  • Yes, I read that question before posting, but it wasn't really clear. It talked about magical plants, and plant creatures, it didn't give any definitive explanation other than Generally, any plant that doesn't come with a stat block should not be considered a creature. - According to what rules? I ask because how would a druid for example heal a plant? Surely that's something they can do using magic. – NibblyPig Nov 19 '19 at 10:20
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    If your question is "how would a druid, for example, heal a plant?" then you might be better off asking that instead. If you wish to know what rules the basis for "Generally, any plant that doesn't come with a stat block should not be considered a creature" come from then you might be better off leaving a comment on that answer asking them to explain further. – Purple Monkey Nov 19 '19 at 10:35
  • This question has entered the Reopen review queue - I think that, in its current form, it is a duplicate. If you edit the question to ask "how would a druid heal a plant" or similar, as Purple Monkey suggests, then at that point I would say that this should be reopened. For now, I shall hit the Leave Closed button. – NathanS Nov 19 '19 at 10:46
  • Very well, I will re-ask, but the question will be pretty much the same - How would a druid heal a plant given that their healing spell at level 1 targets a 'creature' - is a plant considered a creature? – NibblyPig Nov 19 '19 at 11:03
  • I don't think your new question's the same (even though I understand that the underlying thing you're trying to get at is, of course, the same). This question focuses on the definition of a plant, which makes it a duplicate of "Are plants creatures or objects?", but your new question focuses on what you want to achieve, which is how to heal a plant given that it isn't a creature. You see - the new question understands that a plant doesn't count as a creature, so now you can get past that hurdle and just find out what you really want to know - how to heal it. Your new question is much better! – NathanS Nov 19 '19 at 12:09
  • Just to be clear - when I said your new question is much better, I don't think this question is bad (I upvoted it), but the focus of it wasn't quite right, and thus being marked as a duplicate didn't answer your underlying question. Your new question is that underlying question, so hopefully you'll get much more satisfactory answers from it. That is the way in which I think your new question is better (i.e. better for you to get what you want out of it). – NathanS Nov 19 '19 at 12:11

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