Flower

Flowers are an item and decoration in all Animal Crossing games so far. Flowers grow at any time of the year. New flowers can be planted by both the player, and villagers in. Seeds can be bought from either the Gardening Store or Tom Nook's Store and can be planted in most places on grass.

Flowers are fragile, and if a player runs across a patch of flowers, there is a 10% (12.5% in ) chance that the flowers will be destroyed.

Hybrid flowers, introduced in, are created by placing two flowers adjacent to each other and watering them, though it can take many days to achieve a result.

Flowers can be picked up from onwards and can be worn as an accessory or placed inside the house. Some flowers are worn in the player's hair, and some can be placed between the player's teeth.



Survival
From onwards, flowers sometimes wilt. Its color changes to a dull brown color, and will be destroyed if picked up by the player. Wilted flowers can be revived by being watered with a watering can on the same day that they wilt, and will return to normal the following day. Any form of precipitation will also revive flowers without a watering can. This wilting process applies to all flowers but the golden rose, which is created after watering a black rose with a golden watering can.

Insects on Flowers
Many different insects are attracted to flowers such as Ladybugs, Butterflies, Mantids and Snails. Oddly, of all these flowers, Tulips are the only type that do not attract insects until.

See Flower Insects for a complete list.

Cosmos
Cosmos are multi-petaled and thin-leaved flowers. Base colors include yellow, pink and blue in GCN, and red, white and yellow in other games. Hybrid colors include orange, pink and black.

Roses
Roses are common in all the games. The base colours are red, white and yellow. Hybrid colours are pink, orange, black, purple and blue. Gold roses also exist, and are obtained by watering a wilted black rose with a golden watering can.

Tulips
Tulips are common in all the games. The base colours are red, white and yellow. Hybrid colours are pink, purple and black.

Pansies
Pansies are common in all the games. The base colours are red, white and yellow. Hybrid colours that can be found are orange, blue and purple.

Violets
Violets are a new flower in. The basic colours are white, purple and yellow. The only hybrid is blue, created from white and purple parents.

Lilies
Lilies are a new flower in. The basic colours are red, white and yellow. Hybrid colours are pink, orange and black.

Carnations
Carnations can only be obtained in City Folk and New Leaf. There are three colors - pink is obtained from the player's mother on Mother's Day (May 10), the red is obtained from the player's father on Father's Day (June 21), and white is created as a hybrid of the two.

Clovers
Clovers grow frequently and are generally treated as weeds, disappearing after being pulled. However, the four leafed-clover grows very infrequently and is placed in the Player's inventory. It has been known to affect luck, and can be worn in the hair or placed as furniture in the player's house, used as a bookmark.

Dandelions


Dandelions appear randomly around the town, and are essentially classed as a weed, though do not affect the town's environment. They resemble sun cosmos, have thinner petals and heavier leaves. When it turns into seeds it can be equipped as a tool and blown by pressing A.

After a few days they turn into puffs which can be picked up and blown as a tool.

Jacob's Ladders
When the environment of a town reaches perfect level, the Jacob's Ladder flower grows around the town. This flower does not have any variations, only appearing as a cluster of whitish-green buds dangling from a leafy plant. This plant does not breed when placed next to other Jacob's Ladders, though it does increase the chance of breeding other flowers when planted next to them. Jacob's Ladders are possibly one of the hardest plants to accquire because it only spawns while your town is perfect.

Rafflesias
The rafflesia is a large red plant that grows in the player's town after a large number of weeds accumulate. Once this plant appears in your town, it means that your town is at the lowest rank, not a perfect town, etc. In reality, the plant is notorious for its smell; which, in game, is reflected by the presence of flies. After the removal of the weeds, the rafflesia will wilt, then disappear.To rid your town of weeds, talk to Wisp the ghost and bring back all five spirits. Ridding your town of weeds is one of three choices as a reward. In many ways, it is the polar opposite of the Jacob's Ladder.

Hybridization
Hybrids are special colourations of flowers obtained by "breeding" flowers. They first appeared in, though some hybrid colourations (especially cosmos) were available as basic colours in GCN games.

How to Hybridize
If you plant two different specimen of the same species next to each other, on the next morning, there is a chance they will hybridize and create a new flower in one of the spaces next to either of the parents. For example, red tulips and white tulips can produce pink tulips. There are a few guidelines to follow to do this.


 * The parent flowers should be adjacent, either right next to each other or diagonally.
 * There needs to be at least one space open next to each parent. Do not completely surround either parent with anything, including items, patterns, dig spots, or other flowers.

Even if the hybridization conditions are met, there is no guarantee it will occur. Only three to five new flowers appear in a town in a day, and most hybridization pairings can produce a non-hybrid child, so it may take a while for any particular hybridization to occur. There are a few things that are thought to increase the chance of hybridization.


 * Perfect town status
 * Luck from positive Feng Shui
 * Presence of Jacob's ladders next to either parent
 * Watering dried out flowers that meet hybridization conditions
 * Using a Silver watering can

Hybridization chart
In most games, new flowers are also created by placing two flowers of the same type adjacent to each other and watering both, sometimes creating hybrid colors.