Flowers

Flowers are decorative plants that can be placed on the ground like Buildings, and reproduced by adding Flower Fertilizer. They are received, carried and planted as Bulbs. With sufficient technological advances, they can be crossbred to produce new strains of varying sizes and colors. Flowers for Dummies can help you get started growing flowers both for decoration and for the Test of the Formal Garden.

Types

University-Given

The University of Worship in each region offers a specific strain of bulb type once it has researched the required technology.

The two types of flower bulbs offered are:

Sea Lily Bulbs once Horticulture has been opened
Rose of Ra once Xenobotany has been opened

You may request 1 Sea Lily bulb and 1 Rose of Ra bulb per character.

If you want any additional strains, you'll have to trade for them.

Event-Given

Orchid Bulbs - Given during various events throughout the Tale.
Sand Blooms and some Roses/Lilies are only available through events and must be traded.

Strains - what's available

Sea Lily
- Blush - Midland Valley, Cradle of the Sun, Lake of Reeds, Valley of Kings
- Clarity - awarded at the Herbal Remedies for the Sailors Events in October
- Crimson - awarded at the Olympic Sculpture event
- Crown - Desert of Nomads
- Delicate - not available yet
- Dusk - awarded at the Making Home Sweet Home events
- Energy - South Egypt
- Fracture - Cat's Claw Ridge, Seven Lakes
- Morning - Old Egypt
- Silken - Eastern Ground, Desert of Shades
- Vampire - River Plains, Sinai

Rose of Ra
- Blood Heart - not available yet
- Dawn's Blush - not available yet
- Goldenleaves - Desert of Shades
- Hatch's Bud - Old Egypt & Sinai
- Heart of Darkness - not available yet
- Night Bloom - Cradle of the Sun
- Onion Skin - Valley of the Kings
- Pantomime - Desert of Nomads & Lake of Reeds
- Pink Giant - awarded at the Making Home Sweet Home events
- Red Dwarf - River Plains (opened by Melanie) & Seven Lakes & South Egypt & Cat's Claw Ridge
- White Giant - Midland Valley & Eastern Grounds

Orchids
- Amazon Queen - awarded at the Herbal Remedies for the Sailors Events in October
- Arabian Nights - awarded at the May Phoenix Races event
- Avalon - awarded for Pharoah's Fish Feast - The First Course, July 16, 2016
- Emperor - not available yet
- Hidden in the Darkness - awarded at the Olympic Sculpture event
- Masquerade - awarded at the Valentines Flower Sculpture event
- Sabretooth - awarded as lottery prizes and the Valentines Flower Sculpture event
- Shangri-La - not available yet

Sand Blooms
- Calliope - awarded during the Foraging Studies event in July
- Clear Skies - awarded during the Foraging Studies event in July
- Cookie Jar - awarded during the Foraging Studies event in July
- Corona - awarded during the Herbal Remedies for Sailors event in September
- Lemon Drop - awarded at the Herbal Remedies for the Sailors Events in October
- Love's Touch - awarded during the Foraging Studies event in July
- Otter's Sunrise - awarded during the Herbal Remedies for Sailors event in September
- Petit Mal - awarded during the Foraging Studies event in July
- Pluribus Folly - awarded for helping Melanie build her camp
- Sacrifice - awarded during the Foraging Studies event in July
- Sunshine - awarded for finding Melanie's Beads

Reproduction

Want more flowers or different sizes/colors? You can reproduce the varieties you have through fertilization. You can fiddle with your flowers' genetics to produce new strains with Crossbreeding and also Mutagenics.

Genomes of each flower type have been worked out in previous tellings and can be manipulated through Crossbreeding and Mutagenics to vary the look of flowers.

Trading

Probably the best method of getting flowers is via trade; there are many crossbreeders who have new strains of flowers for you to plant and/or cross. This is quite useful if you are interested in crossbreeding. Using hybrid bulbs that current breeders have developed means you can advance the progress of breeding rather than redoing the same basic crosses they've done. This means you can reach what would otherwise be difficult color/size combinations more quickly. So do a little homework, and contact breeders.

Petals

If you select 'Harvest for Petals' in the menu, it destroys the plant and gives you a petal of the appropriate type:

Petals of the Sea.

Notes

If you purchase the Botanist's Touch skill, you will be able to uproot any flower you own. Any fertilizations accrued will be lost.