Planula

The Planula is an item in Risk of Rain 2. Whenever the player takes damage while holding the Planula, they will immediately heal 15 HP, making it extremely useful against monsters that attack with rapid, low-damage hits.

Tips

 * Works well with and  because it will heal them when they pay HP for abilities, resulting in taking less damage from them and maybe even healing from them.
 * This item can pair well with the to further mitigate damage, although both these items fall off in effectiveness as the difficulty increases.

Trivia

 * Inside the egg, a tiny can be seen.
 * While written to sound humorously confusing, this item's logbook entry suggests that the species has a similar life cycle to that of stars; they start out normal-sized, expand into giants over time, and then collapse into smaller versions, which are the oldest. This may also explain why the species glows brightly, and why have a "sunlight" attack.
 * Since this item's logbook entry reveals that Children from Risk of Rain 1 are actually the eldest of the species, their disappearance from Risk of Rain 2 may potentially be a result of the Survivor from the first game killing them, and the younger  not yet having aged into Children.