Flower



Flowers are naturally occurring plants that spawn randomly in clusters on grass blocks. While they can be planted on grass, farmland, podzol and dirt blocks, flowers cannot be cultivated like trees, sugar cane, or crops, but can occasionally spawn when bone meal is used to generate patches of grass. Flowers can be used to make dyes.

To survive, flowers must be planted on a grass or dirt block that either does not have a block any altitude above it to obstruct sun/moonlight, or is lit with at least a light level of 8. If neither of these conditions exist, the flower will quickly pop out. This attribute allows flowers to be used in the creation of light-sensitive mechanisms.

Even in a biome covered with snow, flowers will generate naturally on dirt blocks with grass, despite the adjoining dirt blocks being covered with snow.

Farming
To farm flowers you need to apply bone meal on a grass block that either does not have any block above it to obstruct sun/moonlight, or is lit with at least a light level of 8. Flowers and tall grass will spread over grass blocks up to five blocks radius around. The spawned flower depends on the biome.

In the older versions (needs checking); if the planting conditions are not met, the flowers will quickly pop out. This attribute allows flowers to be used in the creation of light-sensitive mechanisms.

In Minecraft PE when bone meal is used on grass only Dandelions and Cyan Flowers will grow rather than mostly grass.

Dandelion
Dandelion flowers can be collected in one hit and placed in a crafting grid to create a dandelion yellow dye.

Poppy
Poppies can be collected in one hit and placed in a crafting grid to create 1 unit of rose red dye. They are somewhat rarer than dandelions. They are also held and dropped by Iron Golems. Poppies do not exist in Pocket Edition, Pi Edition.

Blue Orchid
A light blue flower. Can be crafted into 1 Light Blue Dye. It is naturally found in swamp and taiga biomes. Using Bone Meal can also spawn them.

Allium
A rare magenta flower. Can be crafted into 1 magenta dye. Only found in the flower forest biome.

Azure Bluet
A small white flower. Can be crafted into 1 Light Gray Dye. It can be found in plains and flower forest biomes. Using Bone Meal can also spawn them.

Tulips
Small flowers, each color can be crafted into their respective dye. Only found in the plains and flower forest biome.

Oxeye Daisy
A white and yellow flower. Can be crafted into 1 Light Gray Dye. It can be found in plains, sunflower plains biome and flower forest biome.

Sunflower
Sunflowers are two-block high flowers. A fully grown flower will always face east, giving players a sense of direction. Can be used to craft two Dandelion Yellow Dyes. When bonemeal is used on the sunflower, a second sunflower is dropped. They cannot be put in a flower pot. It can be found in sunflower plains.

Lilac
A light purple colored flower. Like the sunflower, they are also two blocks high and will drop a second lilac upon using bonemeal. They cannot be put in a flower pot. It can be found in Forest, ForestHills and flower forest biomes.

Rose Bush
A two block high collection of rose-bearing vines. Can be crafted into 2 Rose Red. When bone meal is used on the rose bush, a second rose bush is dropped. They cannot be put in a flower pot. It can be found in forest, forest hills, birch forest, birch forest hills, roofed forest and flower forest biome.

Peony
A pink colored, two-block tall flower known as paeonia, also called peony. When bone meal is used on the peony, a second peony is dropped. It can be found in forest, forest hills, birch forest, birch forest hills, roofed forest and flower forest biomes. They cannot be put in a flower pot. It can be crafted into 2 Pink Dye.

Cyan Flower
Cyan Flowers replace Roses in Pocket Edition and Pi Edition.

In a video preview of Pocket Edition on the Xperia PLAY, a cyan flower is visible at 0:25. Jeb stated that they exist as replacement for Roses, following some hardware problems; cyan colored flowers are not planned to be added in the PC version of Minecraft. Since the 0.5.0 update of Minecraft Pocket Edition, they are named Rose in the inventory.

They serve absolutely no function but decoration, unlike dandelions which provide yellow dye.

Trivia

 * Due to the nature of the flowers' spawning algorithm, it is possible (but relatively rare) to find naturally-spawned flowers in lava, caverns or abandoned mine shafts.
 * Also, it is possible to find a flower dropped as an item on the ground naturally, because it didn't generate on dirt or grass blocks, thus dropping itself.
 * Like other transparent blocks, flowers convert falling objects like sand or gravel into their collectible item entity.
 * Jeb noted that paeonias were the flowers that were used for his wedding.
 * Cyan flower is the only flower in Minecraft that doesn't produce dye.