Flower

Flower

Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes
Drops	Itself
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

Flowers are naturally occurring plants that come in a variety of shapes and colors.

Obtaining

See also: Flower farming

Flowers can be instantly broken with any item (or no item). Flowers will also be broken if water runs over its location, or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location. In Pocket Edition, breaking a tall flower drops two of itself, rather than just one of itself; this is MCPE-13304.

Natural generation

Flowers naturally generate on dirt and grass blocks. 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. They also need light to grow if bonemeal is used on a grass block.

Eight allium flowers will always appear in a chest inside a woodland mansion's "Allium Room", which also has five potted allium flowers. The mansion can also have a flower room, which contains an oxeye daisy, azure bluet, blue orchid, and 2 allium, all potted. There is a potted allium in a small library room, a potted white tulip in a sanctuary room, a potted red tulip in a small office, a potted azure bluet in a birch arch room, a dining room with a potted oxeye daisy, a double bedroom with a potted allium, a triple bedroom with a potted azure bluet, and more.

Drops

Iron golems drop 0 to 2 poppies upon death.

Bone meal

When bone meal is applied to a grass block, flowers have a chance of generating instead of tall grass on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks up to 7 blocks away (taxicab distance). The generated flower depends on the biome (see below).

When bone meal is applied to a double flower, a second double flower will spawn as an item.

Flower biomes

This chart shows the types of flowers that can naturally generate in each biome, and which biomes can generate flowers when bone meal is used on grass blocks. Flowers marked "generation" only generate as part of the biome from chunk generation.

Flower	Plains	Sunflower Plains	Swamp	Forest	Flower Forest	Any other
Dandelion	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Poppy	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blue Orchid	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Allium	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Azure Bluet	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Tulips	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Oxeye Daisy	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Sunflower	No	Generation	No	No	No	No
Lilac	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No
Rose Bush	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No
Peony	No	No	No	Generation	Generation	No

Usage

All flowers can be used as decoration and crafted into dyes; all can be planted in grass or dirt, and one-block flowers can be planted in a flower pot.

Navigation

Sunflowers always face east, so they can be used as a direction guide.

Breeding

Dandelions can be used to breed, grow and lead rabbits.

Data values

ID

Block	ID Name	Numerical ID
Dandelion	yellow_flower	37
Flowers	red_flower	38
Double Flowers	double_plant	175

Block data

See also: Data values

Non-dandelion flowers use data values to differentiate between flower types. They also have block states which will replace data values in the future.

Block 37

	DV	Description
	0	Dandelion

Block 38

	DV	Description
	0	Poppy
	1	Blue Orchid
	2	Allium
	3	Azure Bluet
	4	Red Tulip
	5	Orange Tulip
	6	White Tulip
	7	Pink Tulip
	8	Oxeye Daisy

Block 175

	DV	Description
	0	Sunflower
	1	Lilac
	2	Double Tallgrass
	3	Large Fern
	4	Rose Bush
	5	Peony
	8	Top Half of any Large Plant; low three bits 0x7 are derived from the block below.

Block state

See also: Block states

minecraft:red_flower

Name	Value	Description
type	poppy	Poppy
	blue_orchid	Blue Orchid
	allium	Allium
	houstonia	Azure Bluet
	red_tulip	Red Tulip
	orange_tulip	Orange Tulip
	white_tulip	White Tulip
	pink_tulip	Pink Tulip
	oxeye_daisy	Oxeye Daisy

minecraft:yellow_flower

Name	Value	Description
type	dandelion	Dandelion

minecraft:double_plant

Name	Value	Description
half	upper lower	The half of the plant contained in this block.
variant	sunflower	Sunflower
	syringa	Lilac
	double_grass	Double Tallgrass
	double_fern	Large Fern
	double_rose	Rose Bush
	paeonia	Peony
facing	north south east west	The direction the plant is facing. This is currently unused in-game. Upper-half blocks are always 'north', and lower-half blocks are always 'east'.

History

Classic
0.0.20				Yellow flowers and roses added.
				Flowers could be placed on all block types, including lava and on top of each other. Flowers would also "float" when the block beneath them was broken.
0.24_06				Flowers now generate naturally in worlds.
Infdev
March 27, 2010				Flowers no longer generate due to changes in the terrain generator.
June 16, 2010				Flowers can naturally generate again.
Beta
1.6.6				Flowers can now be regrown. Bone meal was given the ability to generate them as well as tall grass when used on a grass block.
1.8				Yellow flowers became more abundant.
Official release
1.7.2		13w36a		Flowers are now discentered like tall grass.
				Renamed roses to poppies. Texture changed from to .
				Yellow flower renamed to dandelion.
				Many new flowers were added: blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony.
				Flowers are now flammable.
1.8		14w17a		Dandelions generate in flower forest biomes.
		14w27a		Dandelions can be used to breed tamed rabbits.
		14w30a		Oxeye daisies can be used to apply patterns to banners.
1.8.1		pre1		Added facing state to minecraft:double_plant, though without visible effect.
1.11		16w39a		Flowers now generate in Woodland Mansions.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release				Rose added.
0.1.0				Changed texture of rose to be cyan instead of red as an attempt to fix hardware issues, making the version exclusive cyan flower.
0.4.0				Added dye recipe for dandelions.
0.5.0				Added names to items, giving the cyan flower the official name of Rose.
0.8.0		build 5		The position of flowers is now randomized.
0.9.0		build 1		Added new flowers: blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony.
				Replaced Cyan Flower with Poppy.
		build 3		Added dye recipes for all flowers.
0.13.0		build 1		Which flowers are created using bonemeal now depend on the biome.
0.14.0		build 1		Using bonemeal on a double flower will spawn another of that flower as an item.
		build 3		Hit boxes of flowers no longer occupy the entire block.
0.15.0		build 2		Changed rose bush and peony textures, ported from the Console Edition.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	Added yellow flowers and roses.
TU25	CU14	1.17		Changed rose texture to poppy texture. (Name didn't change)
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	Added new flowers.
				Renamed roses to poppies
TU36	CU25	1.28	Patch 6	Changed rose bush and peony textures.

Trivia

• Due to the nature of the flowers' generation algorithm, it is possible (but relatively rare) to find naturally-generated flowers and grass in lava, caverns or abandoned mineshafts.
  • Also, it is possible to find flowers and seeds dropped as an item on the ground naturally, due to failure to generate on an acceptable block.
• Like other non-solid transparent blocks, flowers can break falling objects, like sand.
• Jeb noted that peonies were the flowers that were used for his wedding.
• Neither roses nor rose bushes apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
• Flowers generated from bone meal in a flower forest biome depend only on the horizontal position; the world seed has no effect. The flowers generated with the chunk do depend on the world seed.
  • The flowers generate along a gradient: dandelion, poppy, allium, azure bluet, red tulip, orange tulip, white tulip, pink tulip, oxeye daisy.
• Allium is a genus composed of bulb vegetables such as onions, garlic and related vegetables, which have large, pink inflorescences resembling that of the flower item.
• Using bone meal on any small flower in Pocket Edition will generate more flowers around it, without grass.

Gallery

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  Patches of flowers in a plains biome.

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  A rose found growing near lava.

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  A flower generated in mid-air, with a few flowers on sand close by.

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  The original single-block design of the peony that was never publicly released in-game. The texture can still be found in the game files as flower_paeonia.png

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  Unused texture close up.

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  Flowers in a flower forest.

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  Sunflower naturally generated in a sunflower plains.

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  The removed cyan flower.

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  A patch of blue orchids that grew deep underground in a pitch-black cave.

References

Blocks

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