Big Flower

Big Flowers are plants in Pikmin Bloom that can be found throughout the world at set points of interest. They appear on the map screen with circles around them with a radius of 40 meters. If a player is 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, and within the first hour after it blooms, it will reward players who plant flowers nearby 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 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

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

When a Big Flower blooms, the species and color of 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.

Species

There are 2 main categories of flower types: 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 being a seasonal flower. If mostly seasonal flowers are planted within the radius, the Big Flower will most likely bloom into a seasonal flower, though with some additional complexity and randomness. The chances of different flower species blooming has varied throughout the game's lifespan, and events 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 most prevalent flower color isn't available in the determined species, when the 300 flower goal is reached, the color of the Big Flower will be randomly picked. This means that it is impossible to guarantee a white bloom from a Big Flower. When this occurs the flower species is first determined, and then the color is picked based on odds unique to the species.

The likely eventual color and type of a Big Flower is displayed in the screen that appears when an unbloomed Big Flower is tapped. The color displayed does not guarantee that it will be the final color 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.

Technical Details

The color and species of flowers planted under the big flower determine what the bloom will be.

• Flower species is determined before the color.
• Planting 156 or more of a given flower type around a big flower usually guarantees that type (unless it mutates, see next bullet point).
• If you have enough flowers to spawn to a given type, there is a small chance it will mutate to another flower type, such as the current flower of the month, or other seasonal flowers (Niantic reports what flowers bloom as at the start of the month in a "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.
    • 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.

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 December 18^th, 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 January 1^st, 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 January 22^nd, poinsettias were no longer available this way. On February 11^th, 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 February 14^th 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 now each month, planting regular flowers around a Big Flower has a chance of blooming a selection of seasonal flowers. The second tier of flower rarity was removed, and now roses are treated the same way as other rare flowers. Community Days continue to change the flower availability for that day only. The following table shows the flower types available each month:

Month	Flowers of the month
March 2022	Cherry blossom, pansy, plum blossom
April 2022	Tulip, pansy, cherry blossom
May 2022	Carnation, rose, tulip, pansy
June 2022	Hydrangea, carnation, rose
July 2022	Lily, hydrangea, rose
August 2022	Sunflower, lily, rose
September 2022	Spider lily, sunflower, rose
October 2022	Cosmos, spider lily, pansy, rose, carnation
November 2022
December 2022	Cyclamen, poinsettia, camellia, pansy
January 2023	Daffodil, plum blossom, cyclamen, poinsettia, camellia, pansy
February 2023
March 2023	Windflower, cherry blossom, plum blossom, daffodil, cyclamen, tulip, pansy
April 2023	Baby blue eye, cherry blossom, daffodil, tulip, pansy, rose
May 2023	Carnation, tulip, baby blue eye, pansy, rose
June 2023	Calla lily, carnation, pansy, hydrangea, lily, rose
July 2023	Frangipani, hydrangea, lily, rose, calla lily, sunflower
August 2023	Hibiscus, rose, frangipani, lily, sunflower, cosmos
September 2023	Dianthus, hibiscus, frangipani, sunflower, spider lily, cosmos
October 2023	Gentian, pansy, spider lily, cosmos, cyclamen, dianthus
November 2023	Chrysanthemum, pansy, camellia, cyclamen, poinsettia, gentian
December 2023	Helleborus, pansy, camellia, cyclamen, poinsettia, chrysanthemum
January 2024	Cattleya, camellia, plum blossom, daffodil, poinsettia, helleborus
February 2024	Camellia, plum blossom, daffodil, pansy, cherry blossom, cattleyas
March 2024	Plum blossom, pansy, cherry blossom, baby blue eye, windflower, hyacinth
April 2024	Cherry blossom, tulip, baby blue eye, windflower, hyacinth, sweet pea
May 2024	plum blossom, carnation, chrysanthemum, helleborus, cattleya, hyacinth, sweet pea, and lily of the valley nectar.

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:

Base Flower	Flower mutation
Pansy	Rose
Rose	Tulip Frangipani
Plum Blossom	Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom	Pansy Windflower Tulip Rose
Windflower	Pansy Cherry Blossom Baby Blue Eyes Cyclamen
Tulip	Baby Blue Eyes Carnation
Lily	Frangipani Sunflower Spider Lily
Calla Lily	Frangipani
Spider Lily	Tulip
Dianthus	Hibiscus
Cosmos	Cyclamen
Camellia	Daffodil Plum Blossom
Daffodil	Pansy Cyclamen Poinsettia Camellia

Gallery

Screenshots

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Sprites

These are the sprites used for each type of Big Flower in the screen at the end of a flower planting session.

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
White												N/A						N/A
Red							N/A					N/A				N/A		N/A
Blue				N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A				N/A	N/A								N/A
Yellow				N/A	N/A		N/A			N/A					N/A			N/A				N/A	N/A						N/A

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 PokéStops and Gyms in Pokémon GO, and Portals in Ingress.

See also

• Pellet Posy
• Mushroom battle
• Special Spot