Springboard
From SMWiki
The Springboard is an item that was introduced in Super Mario Bros. 1. There, it was rooted to the ground, but in Super Mario World and future games, Mario can pick it up and carry it to other locations. Jumping on it makes Mario jump higher, reaching normally otherwise inaccessible locations.
This item is often used in hacks for puzzle-solving and reaching bonus areas. The springboard in Super Mario World has also a weird little glitch related to it's carrying. Whenever Mario picks up a springboard, it completely kills his horizontal speed.
There are also wall springboards, sometimes called pea bouncers, that come in left and right wall varieties. How high you jump on them depends on what part of them you are on; the further from the base you are, the higher you'll jump.
Trivia
SMW Central's "Dots" rankset, which is Roman numeral-based and shows your post count using dots in all eight sprite palettes and variations on palettes E and F, is based on the graphics for the wall springboards. Also, the VWF Cutscene Tool uses the wall board's graphics for cursors unless you insert and use the ExGFX that came with the utility. Then you get down and right arrows.
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