Editing Big Flower

{{game icons|pb=y}}
'''Big Flowers''' are plants in {{pb}} that can be found throughout the world at set points of interest. They appear on the [[Pikmin Bloom interface#Map|map screen]] with circles around them with a radius of 40 meters. If a player is [[flower planting|planting flowers]] within the Big Flower's radius, it will contribute towards blooming the Big Flower. After 300 flowers are planted in the radius, the flower will bloom for 23 hours. If a player plants any flowers in the radius of the Big Flower within the first hour after it blooms, they will be rewarded with with an [[expedition]] to collect a [[fruit]] from it. (If a player has not yet unlocked the ability to do expeditions, they will not get a reward from a Big Flower.) Any player that walks within 100 meters of a blooming Big Flower can swipe vertically across it while viewing its information page to gain 1-2 nectar, even if they have already retrieved the fruit. The nectar provided by the Big Flower and the fruit it rewards will match the bloomed flower type, which depends on the type of flowers that were planted in the radius.

There are some flowers on the map that look like Big Flowers but have a rainbow bud. These are a different kind of flower, called a [[Special Spot]].

==Stages==
[[File:PB Big Flower Bud.png|thumb|150px|A Big Flower in bud form.]]
A Big Flower has 3 stages:
* Sprout: players have planted 0 to 49 flowers within.
* Bud: players have planted 50 to 299 flowers within.
* Blooming: players have planted 300 or more flowers within.

Each time a Big Flower grows to its next stage, it will flash in light and change in appearance. In addition, when more than 150 flowers are planted in the radius, the bud will flash and falling petals will temporarily surround it.

==Types==
The type of a flower consists of 2 parts: the flower species and the flower color. When a Big Flower blooms, both the species and color of the flower it becomes depends on the flowers planted inside its radius. The species of the flower (and therefore the species of nectar the fruit provides) is determined first and depends on the species of the planted flowers. The color of the flower (and therefore the type of fruit it provides) depends on the color of the planted flowers, limited to the colors available for the determined species.

===Big Flower Forecast===
Every month, Niantic publishes what they call the Big Flower Forecast, which introduces a new flower into the game, dubbed the Flower of the Month, lists the available seasonal flowers and nectar, and announces the month’s [[Community Day]]. This forecast changes monthly, but occasionally is the same for two months in a row. A Big Flower with mostly regular flowers planted around it will have a chance of blooming into any of the seasonal flowers available in the current Big Flower Forecast.

===Species===
There are 2 categories of flower species: regular flowers (from standard petals), and seasonal flowers (such as pansies, camellias, and roses). If only regular flowers are planted within the radius, the Big Flower will likely be some color of regular flower, with a chance of becoming one of the seasonal flowers in the current Big Flower Forecast. If most of the flowers planted within the radius are the same seasonal flower, the Big Flower will most likely bloom into that seasonal flower, though with some additional complexity and randomness. The chances of different flower species blooming has varied throughout the game's lifespan, and [[event]]s have frequently added temporary boosts to certain probabilities.

===Color===
A Big Flower's eventual bloomed color is determined by the color of the flowers that players plant within, with additional complexity added by white flowers and flowers that aren't available in all 4 colors. For red, blue, and yellow flowers, having a majority of that color of flower planted within the radius will cause the Big Flower to grow into that color, provided that it's available for the determined species.

For Big Flowers where at least 70% of the flowers planted in the radius are white or where the determined species lacks a variant in the most prevalent color, then when the 300 flower goal is reached, the color of the Big Flower will be randomly picked based on [[#Color_Odds_Per_Species|odds unique to the species]]. This means that it is impossible to guarantee a white bloom from a Big Flower if there are multiple color variants.

===Flower type predictions===
The likely eventual color and species of a Big Flower is displayed in the screen that appears when an unbloomed Big Flower is tapped. The type displayed does not guarantee that it will be the final type of the Big Flower, because it could still change as more flowers are planted. The colors "red", "blue", and "yellow" will display in this message if that color of flower is the most common non-white color within the radius, and if the 70% rule for white flowers has not been reached. The color "white" is never displayed here, as if the 70% rule has been reached, the color will be displayed as "???" instead. For example, if there are 40 white flowers and 30 red flowers within a Big Flower's radius, the Big Flower will say it will be red, because there are less than 70% white and non-red flowers. If an additional 20 yellow and 20 blue flowers were planted within, they would contribute to white as they are less common than red flowers, and the Big Flower would display "???" as its eventual color.

When at least one of the seasonal flowers in the current Big Flower Forecast lacks a variant in the current majority color, the display will always read "???" when normal flowers of that color are planted. This is because if the Big Flower mutates into one of the species without a variant in the majority color, it will not bloom into the majority color. For example, whenever Cherry Blossoms (only available in white) are in the Big Flower Forecast, every  Big Flower with only normal flowers planted below it will display "???", as white always displays “???”, and Cherry Blossoms are a species that lacks all 3 of the other colors.

===Technical details===
The color and species of flowers planted under the Big Flower determine what the bloom will be.
* The flower species is determined before the color.
* Planting 156 or more of a given flower species around a Big Flower usually guarantees that type (unless it [[#Mutations|mutates]], see next bullet point).
** If enough flowers to spawn to a given species (156 or more) are planted under a Big Flower, there is a small chance (~3%) it will mutate to another flower type, such as the current flower of the month, or other seasonal flowers in the Big Flower Forecast.
* Planting 156 or more of a color locks in the color, provided the color is not white, and that a variant in that color exists for the determined species.
** If a majority of the flowers planted are white or an unavailable color for the blooming flower species and that species has more than one color variant, it is random which color blooms.
*** There is no way to force white blooms if the species has multiple color variants.
*** The color is picked based on odds unique to the species.
** If a majority of the flowers planted are white or an unavailable color for the blooming flower species, but over 100 of a secondary color that is available for that flower species, it will bloom that secondary color.

===Color odds per species===
Each species of flower has a unique distribution of colors that will be used to randomly determine the color of a Big Flower when that species is bloomed and the majority color is either white or a color that is unavailable for that species. The following is experimental data sourced from [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wf1kZCfSxQC4jB--zKRZpgAPhE60zcAfedItqQ5OrbY/edit#gid=1934273914| this spreadsheet], so it may not be perfectly accurate.

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!style="text-align: left" |Flower
!White
!Red
!Yellow
!Blue
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Rose
|25.96%
|39.15%
|24.34%
|10.55%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Pansy
|29.63%
|17.78%
|22.96%
|29.63%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Poinsettia
|33.85%
|66.15%
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Camellia
|52.56%
|47.44%
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Tulip
|21.43%
|23.11%
|24.79%
|30.67%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Carnation
|34.69%
|28.57%
|26.53%
|10.20%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Hydrangea
|38.71%
|31.45%
|N/A
|29.84%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Spider Lily
|26.15%
|70.77%
|3.08%
|N/A
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Cosmos
|59.26%
|40.74%
|0%
|N/A
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Cyclamen
|58.62%
|32.76%
|N/A
|8.62%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Daffodil
|53.08%
|N/A
|46.92%
|N/A
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Plum Blossom
|32.81%
|67.19%
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Windflower
|26.88%
|26.88%
|23.66%
|22.58%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Calla Lily
|50.00%
|11.45%
|28.31%
|10.24%
|-
|style="text-align: left" | Frangipani
|32.50%
|30.00%
|37.50%
|N/A
|}

===History===
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Throughout the game's lifespan, the flower species Big Flowers commonly provide has changed frequently to add variety. Originally these changes happened in a rather inconsistent way, but since March 2022 there has been a consistent monthly flower system. Whenever a Community Day [[event]] occurs, all Big Flowers will bloom into the flower the event is themed around for the duration of the day, no matter what flowers are planted in the radius.

When the game was released in October 2021, there were two tiers of rare flowers: pansies and roses. Planting regular flowers in the radius would usually make the Big Flower bloom into a regular flower, but there was a small chance that it would bloom into a pansy. Planting pansies in the radius would usually make the Big Flower bloom into a pansy, but there was a small chance that it would bloom into a rose. This made roses very hard to get.

The second Community Day on {{date|18|December|2021}} introduced poinsettia flowers. After that date, poinsettias replaced pansies as the main rare flower, though planting mostly pansies inside the radius continued to bloom a pansy, and this method of blooming out-of-season flowers has continued ever since. Planting poinsettias or pansies had a low chance of making a rose bloom.

On {{date|1|January|2022}}, camellias were introduced, and these joined poinsettias as rare flowers that had a low chance of blooming when regular flowers were planted. After the Community Day on {{date|22|January}}, poinsettias were no longer available this way. On {{date|11|February}}, plum blossom flowers were introduced, and now, planting regular flowers had a chance of blooming pansies, poinsettias, camellias, or plum blossoms. The Valentine's Day event on {{date|14|February}} made roses very common for the day and lowered the rarity of the type.

From March 2022, the system of flower availability from Big Flowers was simplified and the second tier of flower rarity was removed, with roses now being treated the same way as other rare flowers (now called Seasonal Flowers). After this change, planting regular flowers around a Big Flower has a chance of blooming a selection of seasonal flowers from the current Big Flower Forecast. The Big Flower Forecast changes monthly, but occasionally is the same for two months in a row. Additionally, each monthly Big Flower Forecast introduced a new flower, dubbed the Flower of the Month. Community Days continue to change the flower availability for that day/weekend only and feature the current Flower of the Month.

From August 2023, Pikmin with the Flower of the Month blooming on their head gain an additional point of strength in [[Mushroom battle]]s compared to Pikmin with other seasonal flowers blooming on their head. In months where only one color of a particular flower species was the Flower of the Month, all colors of that species gave this attack boost.

The following table shows the Flower of the Month and Big Flower Forecast each month:
{|class="wikitable"
!Month
!Flower of the Month
!Big Flower Forecast
|-
|March 2022
|Cherry blossom
|Cherry blossom, pansy, plum blossom
|-
|April 2022
|Tulip
|Tulip, pansy, cherry blossom
|-
|May 2022
|Carnation, rose
|Carnation, rose, tulip, pansy
|-
|June 2022
|Hydrangea
|Hydrangea, carnation, rose
|-
|July 2022
|Lily
|Lily, hydrangea, rose
|-
|August 2022
|Sunflower
|Sunflower, lily, rose
|-
|September 2022
|Spider Lily
|Spider lily, sunflower, rose
|-
|October 2022
|Cosmos
|Cosmos, spider lily, pansy, rose, carnation
|-
|November 2022
|N/A
|Cosmos, pansy, carnation, camellia {{tt|*|There was no Big Flower Forecast for November 2022. The October 2022 forecast announced that spider lily and rose would be leaving November 1, and it was experimentally determined that Camellias were also added to the pool of flowers.}}
|-
|December 2022
|Cyclamen
|Cyclamen, poinsettia, camellia, pansy
|-
|January 2023
|Daffodil
|rowspan="2"|Daffodil, plum blossom, cyclamen, poinsettia, camellia, pansy
|-
|February 2023
|White plum blossom
|-
|March 2023
|Windflower
|Windflower, cherry blossom, plum blossom, daffodil, cyclamen, tulip, pansy
|-
|April 2023
|Baby blue eye
|Baby blue eye, cherry blossom, daffodil, tulip, pansy, rose
|-
|May 2023
|Yellow carnation
|Carnation, tulip, baby blue eye, pansy, rose
|-
|June 2023
|Calla lily
|Calla lily, carnation, pansy, hydrangea, lily, rose
|-
|July 2023
|Frangipani
|Frangipani, hydrangea, lily, rose, calla lily, sunflower
|-
|August 2023
|Hibiscus
|Hibiscus, rose, frangipani, lily, sunflower, cosmos
|-
|September 2023
|Dianthus
|Dianthus, hibiscus, frangipani, sunflower, spider lily, cosmos
|-
|October 2023
|Gentian
|Gentian, pansy, spider lily, cosmos, cyclamen, dianthus
|-
|November 2023
|Chrysanthemum
|Chrysanthemum, pansy, camellia, cyclamen, poinsettia, gentian
|-
|December 2023
|Helleborus
|Helleborus, pansy, camellia, cyclamen, poinsettia, chrysanthemum
|-
|January 2024
|Cattleya
|Cattleya, camellia, plum blossom, daffodil, poinsettia, helleborus
|-
|February 2024
|Yellow plum blossom
|Plum blossom, camellia, daffodil, pansy, cherry blossom, cattleya
|-
|March 2024
|Hyacinth
|Hyacinth, plum blossom, pansy, cherry blossom, baby blue eye, windflower
|-
|April 2024
|Sweet pea
|Sweet pea, cherry blossom, tulip, baby blue eye, windflower, hyacinth
|-
|May 2024
|Lily of the valley
|Lily of the valley, plum blossom, carnation, chrysanthemum, helleborus, cattleya, hyacinth, sweet pea
|-
|June 2024
|Peony
|Peony, calla lily, hydrangea, carnation, lily of the valley, frangipani
|-
|July 2024
|Water Lily
|Water lily, calla lily, hydrangea, lily, frangipani, peony
|-
|August 2024
|Morning Glory
|Morning glory, hibiscus, sunflower, frangipani, spider lily, water lily.
|}

==Mutations==
A mutation is a rare chance of a Big Flower blooming into a different but related flower. 

When the game launched initially, there used to be a rarity hierarchy, where Regular Flowers had the possibility to bloom into Pansies, and Pansies had the possibility to bloom into Roses. But once the flower forecast was simplified, this rarity hierarchy was removed, but the feature for seasonal flowers to bloom into other seasonal flowers stayed.

There is roughly a 3% chance for a mutation to happen. Mutations are flowers within the same season as the base flower, often being the flower introduced after the base flower.

The following table shows which seasonal flowers can mutate to what other seasonal flower:
{|class="wikitable"
!Base Flower
!Flower mutation
|-
|Pansy
|Rose
|-
|Rose
|Tulip <br> Frangipani
|-
|Plum Blossom 
|Cherry Blossom
|-
|Cherry Blossom
|Pansy <br> Windflower <br> Tulip <br> Rose
|-
|Windflower
|Pansy <br> Cherry Blossom <br> Baby Blue Eyes <br> Cyclamen
|-
|Tulip
|Baby Blue Eyes <br> Carnation 
|-
|Lily
|Frangipani <br> Sunflower <br> Spider Lily
|-
|Calla Lily
|Frangipani
|-
|Spider Lily
|Tulip
|-
|Dianthus 
|Hibiscus
|-
|Cosmos
|Cyclamen
|-
|Camellia 
|Daffodil <br> Plum Blossom 
|-
|Daffodil 
|Pansy <br> Cyclamen <br> Poinsettia <br> Camellia 
|}

==Strategy==
{{guide}}

===Blooming a desired flower type===
Event missions often require specific flower types to be planted, most of which are seasonal flowers whose nectar can be scarce. Because of this, it is often useful to control what a Big Flowers becomes to get more of a specific nectar. This is most easily done by finding a Big Flower that has a precondition of the full 300 more flowers until it blooms, although this method can be used as long as the precondition still requires at least 256 flowers.

The requirements for blooming a Big Flower into a specific flower type are as follows:
* 156 or more of the flowers must be of the desired species.
* 100 or more of the flowers must be of the desired color.
* There must be no other color with more flowers planted than the desired color except white or a color not available for the desired species.

Since the species and the color are decided separately and have different thresholds to meet, you can bloom a specific type even if you don't have any petals of that type, as long as you have some of any species with the desired color and some of the desired species in either white or 2 separate colors.

One simple method for blooming a specific flower type even when lacking petals of that type is:
* 102-144 flowers of any species in the desired color.
* 78-99 <code>color1</code> flowers of the desired species.
* 78-99 <code>color2</code> flowers of the desired species.
* both <code>color1</code> and <code>color2</code> can be white, the desired color, or both different.

Note that this method is not guaranteed to work for white. However, following this method for white blooms will give you white bloom ''attempts'' without spending the corresponding white nectar. Each of these attempts become a random color with a chance of being white, with odds unique to that species.

==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
{{image}}

===Sprites===
These are the sprites used for each type of Big Flower in the screen at the end of a [[flower planting]] session.
{|class="wikitable scrollable"style="text-align: center"
!Color
!Regular
!Pansy
!Rose
!Poinsettia
!Camellia
!Plum blossom
!Cherry blossom
!Tulip
!Carnation
!Hydrangea
!Lily
!Sunflower
!Spider Lily
!Cosmos
!Cyclamen
!Daffodil
!Windflower
!Baby Blue Eye
!Calla Lily
!Frangipani
!Hibiscus
!Dianthus
!Gentian
!Chrysanthemums
!Helleborus
!Cattleya
!Hyacinth
!Sweet Pea
!Lily of the Valley
!Peony
!Water Lily
!Morning Glory
|-
!White
|[[File:White Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White pansy Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White rose Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White poinsettia Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White camellia Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White plum blossom Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White cherry blossom Big Flower icon.png|center|x150px]]
|[[File:White tulip Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White carnation Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White hydrangea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:White spider lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White cosmos Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White cyclamen Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White daffodil Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White windflower Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:White calla lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White frangipani Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White hibiscus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White dianthus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White gentian Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White mum Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White helleborus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White cattleya Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White hyacinth Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White sweet pea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White convallaria Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White peony Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White water lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:White morning glory Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|-
!Red
|[[File:Red Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red pansy Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red rose Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red poinsettia Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red camellia Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red plum blossom Big Flower icon.png|center|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Red tulip Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red carnation Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red hydrangea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Red spider lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red cosmos Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red cyclamen Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Red windflower Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Red calla lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red frangipani Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red hibiscus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red dianthus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red gentian Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red mum Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red helleborus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red cattleya Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red hyacinth Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red sweet pea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red convallaria Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red peony Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red water lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Red morning glory Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|-
!Blue
|[[File:Blue Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue pansy Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue rose Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|[[File:Blue tulip Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue carnation Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue hydrangea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|[[File:Blue cyclamen Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Blue windflower Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue nemophila Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue calla lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|N/A
|[[File:Blue dianthus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue gentian Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue mum Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue helleborus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue cattleya Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue hyacinth Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue sweet pea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Blue peony Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue water lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Blue morning glory Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|-
!Yellow
|[[File:Yellow Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow pansy Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow rose Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow plum blossom Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow tulip Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow carnation Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow sunflower Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow spider lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow cosmos Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow daffodil Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow windflower Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow calla lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow frangipani Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow hibiscus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow mum Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow helleborus Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow cattleya Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow hyacinth Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow sweet pea Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|N/A
|[[File:Yellow peony Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow water lily Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|[[File:Yellow morning glory Big Flower icon.png|x150px]]
|}

==Trivia==
*The places where Big Flowers appear on the map are taken from Wayspots in Niantic's Wayfarer system. This means that they will frequently appear at the same locations as features in other Niantic games, including [[bulbapedia:PokéStop|PokéStops]] and [[bulbapedia:Gym#In Pok.C3.A9mon GO|Gyms]] in ''[[bulbapedia:Pokémon GO|Pokémon GO]]'', and Portals in ''Ingress''.

==See also==
*[[Pellet Posy]]
*[[Mushroom battle]]
*[[Special Spot]]

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