Flower

Flowers in the are small clusters of brightly colored flowers that live throughout all four seasons. They can be bought from Tom Nook's Store or Leif's Garden Shop, are grown by villagers, and grow randomly around the town. In and earlier, flowers cannot breed or wilt. All sorts of colors can be bought from Tom Nook without the need to hybridize. The Blue Cosmos is exclusive to, , and  and was not available anymore in  and later. Also, they cannot be picked up in, or  unlike in later games, so they cannot be sold or worn. In, flowers can be picked, but it will result in the flower being destroyed and the player will be holding the flower in their hands after being picked.

Flower basics
There are four common types of flowers: roses, cosmos, tulips, and pansies. has introduced two new flowers, lilies and violets, both in which can be either bought from Leif's Gardening Store or found on various islands during tours. Various combinations of flowers can be bred to form new colors, such as the yellow and red pansies, which create an orange pansy.

Each day, if it has not rained or snowed the day before, there is a chance for each non-watered flower to wilt at 6 a.m., turning a brown color. They 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. Watering flowers that have not wilted yet prevents the flower from wilting the next day. This wilting process applies to all flowers except the golden rose, dandelion and dandelion puffs. Flowers that have been watered show shiny petals and sparkle in.

In New Leaf, flowers grows in groups of four, unlike in previous games where they grow in groups of three. The ability to wear flowers in the hair of a player, which was introduced in City Folk, also reappears, again taking the place of a hat. Hybridization remains a feature for flowers.

In later games, flowers, unless they are wilted, can be picked up as with any item. They can also be displayed in the player's house or, since, be worn on the player's hair. A flower worn this way will take the place of a hat. The rose, however, it is held between the teeth and will take the place of an accessory or helmet.

Flowers can be destroyed in some ways. If the player runs through one of the bunches, there is a 30% chance that the flowers will be destroyed. If the player attempts to pick up a wilted flower, the player plucks it instead, removing it. The player can also use a shovel to dig where the flower is, destroying it.

Hybridization
Hybrids can be obtained from Wild World onwards. In Animal Crossing, hybrids can be bought from Tom Nook's, but cannot be bred. However the Blue Cosmos cannot be obtained by any means, even through breeding in Wild World or later, due to the fact that it only exists in and earlier.

How to Hybridize
If two different specimen of the same species are planted next to each other, on the next morning, there is a chance they will interact 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. This means that the flowers should not be entirely surrounded.

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 may increase the chance of hybridization.

Once a hybrid is produced, it can reproduce quickly by crossing it with any other flower. Not all flowers can create hybrids, however.
 * Perfect town status
 * Luck from positive Feng Shui.
 * Watering dried out flowers that meet hybridization conditions.
 * Using a silver watering can

Hybrids In
Hybrid flowers in have a much different breeding pattern than the previous Animal Crossing games in the series.

Some colors of hybrid flowers require breeding with a certain hybrid color and then breeding them again with those specific colors from their specific parents. As such, a blue rose for instance can only be obtained by breeding a purple rose with a orange rose to get a special red rose, then breeding two special red roses to get a blue rose.

It's impossible to tell the difference between ordinary breeding flowers and specially breeding flowers, since they have the same name and appearance as ordinary breeding flowers. And because of that, they can easily get mixed in with other flowers and players can lose track of them.

But of course, this gives Animal Crossing: New Leaf a more realistic feel to how flowers are cross-bred in real life.

- A color that has been bred from a specific parent.