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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.

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 you use bonemeal.

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 spawning instead of tall grass on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks up to 7 blocks away (taxicab distance). The spawned 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 spawn 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

Pi Edition

In Pi Edition, the only flowers that can be obtained are the dandelion and cyan flower.

Usage

All flowers can be used as decoration; 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 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 38 (Pi Edition)
DV Description
0 Cyan Flower
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

c
0.0.20Yellow 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_06Flowers now spawn naturally in worlds.
b
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.
r
1.7.213w36aFlowers are now discentered like tall grass.
Renamed roses to poppies. Texture changed from File:Grid Rose.png to File:Grid Poppy.png.
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.
1.814w17aDandelions 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.
pa
0.1.0Cyan flower added.
0.4.0Added dye recipe for dandelions.
0.5.0Cyan flower is tagged as rose
0.8.0build 5The position of flowers is now randomized.
0.9.0build 1Added new flowers: poppy, blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony.
Removed cyan flower.
build 3Added dye recipes for all flowers.
0.13.0build 1Flowers created using bonemeal now depend on the biome.
pu
0.14.0build 1Using bonemeal on a double flower will spawn another of that flower as an item.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.00 Added yellow flowers and roses.
TU25CU14 1.17 Roses have been replaced by poppies. However, only the texture was changed.
TU31CU19 1.22 Added new flowers.
Rose fully removed, replaced by poppy.
Pi Edition
0.1.1Added cyan flowers and dandelions.

Trivia

  • Due to the nature of the flowers' spawning algorithm, it is possible (but relatively rare) to find naturally-spawned flowers and grass in lava, caverns or abandoned mine shafts.
    • Also, it is possible to find flowers and seeds dropped as an item on the ground naturally, due to failure to spawn 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.[1]
  • Neither roses nor rose bushes apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
  • Two-block tall flowers can hide you from mobs since the flowers are as tall as a player is and mobs cannot see through transparent blocks like plants.
  • Avoid using /give to get two tall flowers, as the wrong number can corrupt your map beyond recovery.
  • Flower spawns from bone meal in a flower forest biome depend only on the horizontal position; the world seed has no effect. The flowers spawned with the chunk do depend on the world seed.
    • The flowers spawn 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 spring onions, which have large, pink inflorescences resembling that of the flower item.

Gallery

References


Template:Pi Edition

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