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.

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 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, Pi Edition. As of snapshot 13w36a, the Rose was retextured and renamed Poppy.

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 ten new flowers.

Sunflower
Sunflowers are two-block high flowers. A fully grown flower will always face east, giving players a sense of direction. When bone meal is used on the sunflower, a second sunflower is dropped.

Lilac
A light purple colored flower, previously speculated to be "Lavender". Like the sunflower, they are also two blocks high and will drop a second lilac upon using bonemeal.

Peony
A pink colored two-blocked flower known as paeonia, also called peony. Jeb noted that paeonias were the flowers that were used for his wedding. When bone meal is used on the peony, a second peony is dropped. They cannot be put in a flower pot. It can be crafted into 2 Pink Dye.

Azure Bluet
A small white flower. Can be crafted into 1 Light Grey Dye

Oxeye Daisy
A white and yellow flower. Can be crafted into 1 Light Grey Dye. It can be found in plains biomes.

Poppy
A dark, vivid red flower. Can be crafted into 2 Rose Red. Retextured and Renamed from the Rose in 1.7.

Blue Orchid
A light blue flower. Can be crafted into 1 Light Blue Dye. Is naturally found in swamps.

Allium
A magenta flower. Can be crafted into 1 magenta Dye.

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

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.

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