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The specific instructions are: Bedrock/Console version exclusive rose and peony textures

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). A flower will also be broken if water runs over its location, or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location.

If water or a piston enters a flower's location when it is already occupying the same space as a snow layer,‌[Bedrock Edition only] the flower will be lost.[1][2]

Natural generation

Flowers generate naturally 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 bone meal is used on a grass block.

Alliums and other flowers can also be found in woodland mansions.

Drops

Iron golems drop 0 to 2 poppies upon death. This can be affected by Looting enchantment.

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 in both directions (a 15x15 square). The generated flower depends on both the biome and the X/Z coordinates (see below).

When bone meal is applied to a single high flower, more flowers will appear around it without grass.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

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

Flower biomes

This table shows the types of flowers that can naturally generate in each biome, as well as the types that can spawn from bone meal. Flowers marked with "generation" can only spawn when the world is initially generated.

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

Flower gradients

When flowers spawn from bone meal, the type spawned depends on the X/Z position in the world. Different biomes result in slightly different behaviors. Note that these behaviors don't necessarily match naturally generated flowers, since additional randomness is applied during terrain generation.

In a flower forest, any given coordinate can only ever spawn one type of flower, resulting in a gradient (pictured below).

In plains and sunflower plains, a similar but more nuanced effect occurs, called the tulip/non-tulip gradient (also pictured below). Each coordinate in these biomes will spawn either tulips exclusively, or non-tulips exclusively. The color of tulip or type of non-tulip is determined randomly, and can vary between subsequent bone meal uses, but a non-tulip block will never spawn a tulip, and a tulip block will never spawn anything but tulips.

No other biome has a gradient; swamps can only spawn blue orchids, while all other biomes can only spawn dandelions and poppies.

Usage

All flowers can be used as decoration or crafted into dyes, as well as planted on grass or dirt. One-block flowers can be planted in a flower pot.

Navigation

Sunflowers always face east, making them useful for navigation if the Sun is not visible.

Breeding

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

Crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Banner Pattern Flower Paper +
Oxeye Daisy


Daisy
Light Blue Dye Blue Orchid

Light Gray Dye Azure Bluet or
Oxeye Daisy or
White Tulip

Magenta Dye Allium

Magenta Dye Lilac
Orange Dye Orange Tulip

Pink Dye Peony or
Pink Tulip
Red Dye Rose Bush
Red Dye Poppy or
Red Tulip

Yellow Dye Dandelion or
Sunflower

Data values

ID

Flower/ID

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
9 Cornflower
10 Lily of the Valley
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

Java Edition:
Sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony

Name Default value Allowed values Description
halflowerlower
upper
The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition:
All small flowers except dandelion

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
flower_type0x1
0x2
0x4
0x8
poppy poppy0 Poppy
orchid1 Blue Orchid
allium2 Allium
houstonia3 Azure Bluet
tulip_red4 Red Tulip
tulip_orange5 Orange Tulip
tulip_white6 White Tulip
tulip_pink7 Pink Tulip
oxeye8 Oxeye Daisy
cornflower9 Cornflower
lily_of_the_valley10 Lily of the Valley

Sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
double_plant_type0x1
0x2
0x4
sunflower sunflower0 Sunflower
syringa1 Lilac
grass2 Double Tallgrass
fern3 Large Fern
rose4 Rose Bush
paeonia5 Peony
upper_block_bit0x8falsefalse
true
0
1
If it is the upper half of the plant. For items, it is 0.

Grass/DoubleTall/BS

Video

Flower/video

History

classic
0.0.20a 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 (August 25, 2009)Flowers now generate naturally in worlds.
infdev
March 27, 2010Flowers no longer generate due to changes in the terrain generator.
June 16, 2010Flowers can naturally generate again.
beta
1.6.6Flowers can now be regrown. Bone meal was given the ability to generate them as well as tall grass when used on a grass block.
1.8Yellow flowers became more abundant.
release
1.7.213w36aFlowers 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.
1.814w04aFlowers no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.[3]
14w17aDandelions generate in flower forest biomes.
14w27aDandelions can be used to breed tamed rabbits.
14w30aOxeye daisies can be used to apply patterns to banners.
1.8.1pre1Added facing state to minecraft:double_plant, though without visible effect.
1.1116w39aFlowers now generate in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017Jeb tweets image of a new jungle wood planks, cauldron, and dandelion textures.
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.
0.4.0Added dye recipe for dandelions.
0.5.0Added names to items, giving the cyan flower the official name of Rose.
0.8.0build 5The position of flowers is now randomized.
0.9.0build 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 3Added dye recipes for all flowers.
0.13.0build 1Which flowers are created using bonemeal now depend on the biome.
Dandelions can be used to breed tamed rabbits.
0.14.0build 1Using bonemeal on a double flower will spawn another of that flower as an item.
build 3Hit boxes of flowers no longer occupy the entire block.
?Flowers can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
0.15.0build 2 Changed rose bush and peony textures, ported from the Console Edition.
Pocket Edition
1.1build 1Flowers now generate in woodland mansions.
Due to a bug, Dandelions are no longer craftable except Classic UI.
Bedrock Edition
1.2build 1Re-added dye recipe for Dandelions except Classic UI.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.00 Patch 1 Added yellow flowers and roses.
TU25CU14 1.17 Changed rose texture to poppy texture. (Name didn't change)
TU31CU19 1.22 Patch 3 Added new flowers.
Renamed roses to poppies
TU36CU25 1.28 Patch 6Changed rose bush and peony textures from to .

Trivia

  • Due to the nature of the flower 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 such as sand.
  • Peonies were used at Jeb's wedding.[4]
  • 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 horizontal position; the world seed has no effect. Flowers generated naturally 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 Bedrock Edition will generate more flowers around it, without tall grass.
  • A two block high flower drops itself when bone meal (or Super Fertilizer[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]) is used on it.

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