Tile Turnip

Tile Turnip is the last plant obtained in Far Future in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Upon planting, it creates a purple Power Tile. It starts as a free plant, but then it increases its sun cost to 250 after being planted the first time. With any subsequent plantings, its sun cost will double.

Tile Turnip can be planted on tiles occupied by other plants. It digs into the ground when planted, and a purple Power Tile with a purple circle in the middle appears in the space on which the Tile Turnip was planted. Tile Turnip cannot be planted on existing Power Tiles or Gold Tiles.

Almanac entry
Sun cost: 0

RECHARGE: Mediocre

Tile Turnips create a Power Tile on planting.

DJ Tile Turnip changed dance floors with his underground hit "Turnip the Beet." What's his latest mix? When he lays it down, you'll feel the power.

Chinese version
植物特征：紫色植物

建立强化瓷砖瓷砖萝卜常常标榜自己是井字游戏冠军. 但大家却觉得，他这么说只是为了缓解突然蹲下在地板上画一些圈圈叉叉的尴尬.

In English:

Plant feature: purple plant

A strengthened Tile Turnip often prides itself as a Tic Tac Toe champion. But we could feel that he said so just to relieve suddenly the embarrassment of squatting on the floor and drawing some circles.

Strategies
Tile Turnip is an excellent plant for increasing the power of Plant Food upgrades. It works best with plants whose Plant Food effect affects more than one lane, such as catapult plants.

An excellent recipient for Tile Turnips is the Winter Melon, as its high-power Plant Food upgrade affects all zombies on screen, and with Tile Turnips, that effect can be multiplied several times just for the price of one Plant Food. Three Winter Melons with Tile Turnips under them (total Sun cost: 2250) can destroy almost any zombie onscreen. Another good recipient for Tile Turnip chains are Multi-Directional plants such as Threepeaters and Snapdragons. You can also use Tile Turnips under Twin Sunflowers or Sun-shrooms as a way to get a large amount of sun quickly.

In the higher levels of Endless Zones, Power Lily is often needed to replenish Plant Food that the player uses on Tile Turnip-empowered plants. In easy Endless Zone levels, refrain from using Tile Turnip in order to conserve Plant Food for harder levels. Likewise, quick Endless Zone levels (two flags or less) may not be the best place to use Tile Turnips, as the player won't be able to accumulate enough sun to plant a significant amount of them.

Take caution when using Tile Turnip in Big Wave Beach, because when the tide comes in, it will cover your Power Tiles and render them useless. However, once the water stops covering the Power Tiles, it will then function properly. Place the Tile Turnips on the rearmost columns to prevent this.

Sun cost
Unlike every other plant, Tile Turnip and Imitater are the only plants to always have a variable sun cost. It starts out at 0 sun, then increases by 250 for the second, and doubles for every Tile Turnip planted afterwards. Up to seven Tile Turnips can be legally planted in a single level before the sun cost exceeds 9,900, preventing more Tile Turnips from being planted without hacking. However, in the Chinese version, the max sun cost has been increased to 33,464, allowing the player to place nine Tile Turnips, indeed achieving 64,000 sun cost.

Trivia

 * Tile Turnip is the only plant that can create Power Tiles.
 * Tile Turnip is the most expensive plant in the whole Plants vs. Zombies series. It can exceed the maximum amount of sun which is 9900. The max it can cost is 16,000 (64,000 in the Chinese version).
 * Tile Turnip is the only plant that can only be planted a limited amount times.
 * Tile Turnip bears a small resemblance to Beet from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
 * If Tile Turnip is used on a minecart, the minecart itself will become a Power Tile but it can still be moved just the same.
 * There is a glitch where, sometimes Power Tiles on minecarts will not receive Plant Food charges from other tiles.
 * "Turnip the Beet" is a pun on "Turn Up The Beat."
 * Tile Turnip only creates the purple circle Power Tiles.
 * Tile Turnip is one of the three plants that cannot be planted on Power Tiles, with the others being Tangle Kelp and Gold Leaf.
 * If the player uses it with Imitater, be it the original or the imitated one, both the original and imitated Tile Turnip sun cost will increase.
 * There is a glitch with the Tile Turnip where it will occasionally be lit up as if it can be planted when the player does not have enough sun. It can then be selected and dragged to a spot on the lawn where it will prompt the player with the "You do not have enough sun to plant this" dialogue.
 * It can be planted in planks on Pirate Seas despite the fact that it burrows itself.
 * In the Far Future trailer, a plantable Tile Turnip costs 64000, even though it is impossible to reach or get past 16000, without hacking.
 * In the Chinese version, however, it can cost 64,000 due to the new max sun amount, which is 33,464.
 * The purple ring around its leaves may be the purple circle in the Power Tile.
 * If Tile Turnip is planted on any plant, the circle on the Power Tile will not glow.
 * Tile Turnip's normal costume resembles Bjorn's horn from Peggle, another PopCap game.
 * Tile Turnip, Puff-shroom, and Split Pea's back head are the only plants to have horns as their costumes.
 * The only way to get Tile Turnip more than seven times without hacking is by the conveyor-belt in Piñata Party.
 * Tile Turnip, Gold Leaf and Lily Pad are the only plants in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that can be planted on top of another plant except Imitater.
 * If the player plants a Tile Turnip on a Puff-shroom and put a Plant Food on another one, the Power Tile will have a green border.
 * The game's coding refers to it as "Power Plant."
 * When Tile Turnip is spinning, its costume disappears.
 * Tile Turnip and Imitater are the only plants that do not have a constant sun cost.
 * Tile Turnip gradually doubles the sun cost whenever one is planted in the lawn while the Imitater's sun cost depends on the plant it is imitating.
 * In Big Wave Beach, if it is planted on the right of the tide line, when the water rises, it will disappear.
 * Tile Turnip and Rotobaga are the only plants based on turnips.
 * Tile Turnip, Puff-shroom, Grave Buster, Hot Potato, Iceberg Lettuce, and Stallia are the only plants with 0 sun in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
 * However, once the player plants Tile Turnip multiple times, its sun cost will also multiply.
 * If the player manages to hack the game and plant 25 Tile Turnips in a non-Special Delivery level, the sun cost of the Tile Turnip will turn into -100663296.
 * This happens because the sun cost exceeds the maximum value of signed 32-bit integer (2,147,483,647), called integer overflow. The actual sun cost is 4,194,304,000.
 * Tile Turnip's sun cost can decrease if its created tiles are destroyed by Zombot Tomorrow-tron's missiles. This situation can only be created through hacking.
 * Tile Turnip, Gold Leaf, Sap-fling, and Lava Guava are the only plants that affect tiles.
 * It is the first plant that drills into the ground, the second being Intensive Carrot.