Flower



Flowers are naturally occurring plants that spawn randomly in clusters on grass blocks. While they can be planted on grass, farmland, 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 tall grass. Flowers can be used to make wool 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.

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.

Dandelion
Dandelion flowers can be collected in one hit and placed in a crafting grid to create 2 units of dandelion yellow dye.

Rose
Roses can be collected in one hit and placed in a crafting grid to create 2 units of rose red dye. They are somewhat rarer than yellow flowers. They are also held and dropped by Iron Golems. Roses do not exist in Pocket Edition and Pi Edition.

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.

Upcoming flowers


On August 15, 2013, Jeb posted several images of new flowers for 1.7. Though certain flowers will have small, trivial elements, these flowers will be purely aesthetic. Currently, there are four new flowers.

Sunflower
Sunflowers are two-block high flowers. A fully grown flower will typically face east, giving players a sense of direction.

Lavender
A light purple colored flower, speculated to be "Lavender". Like the sunflower, they are also two-block high.

Paeonia
A pink colored flower known as paeonia, also called peony. Jeb noted that paeonias were the flowers that were used for his wedding.

Tulip
Tulips have a variety of colors unlike any other flowers. The colors are unknown at this moment, however.

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.
 * Like torches, flowers convert falling objects like sand or gravel into their collectible item entity.