The Leaping Toadstool is a fungus with a red umbrella-like look. White spots cover the cap of the herb. It is usually priced around three Galleons in Britain, where the plant grows natively. If you were to go into the Forbidden Forest (which you should not be doing) you would find plenty of Leaping Toadstool. This herb can grow in any soil, but if grown in acidic soil, the herb will turn purple and be poisonous. It is a magical/sentient plant, with the most notable quality being its ability to jump about. In order to harvest to plant, you need to be able to do a simple body-binding curse. The spell is Petrificus Totalus (pe-TRI-fi-cus to-TAH-lus). From this point you have an hour to harvest before the Leaping Toadstool will recover.

The healing nature of the plant is rather dual-sided. If you harvest the Leaping Toadstool young, you will have a miracle maker on your hands. If you wait too long, stinging hairs will grow on the toadstool. For this reason, dragonhide gloves are a necessary component of care. To neutralize the stinging hairs (if picked late/when the plant is larger) you may neutralize the plant by heating or cooking it, or by leaving the toadstool out to dry. Most Herbologists use this method, as larger specimens are more powerful. You may want to note, most plants with stinging hairs should be treated in the same manner in order to harvest their healing properties. Pregnant women should not use plants that have stinging hairs.

The healing uses of Leaping Toadstool are seemingly boundless, but I will comment on the most common/practical uses here. Leaping Toadstool will cleanse blood, treat hay fever, subside the effects of arthritis, prevent excessive menstruation, treat hemorrhoids, treat eczema and similar conditions, aids in recovery from dragon pox, heals burns, and treats internal bleeding.