Fire Flower
- "Sun-Flower" redirects here. For other uses, see Sunflower.
| Fire Flower | |||
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 Artwork from Mario Kart 8 | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario Bros. (1985) | ||
| Latest appearance | The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) | ||
| Effect | Turns Mario into Fire Mario or Super Mario (if small in some games). | ||
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- “Screaming pulsars! What in the universe is that thing?! It looks like a flower with a face! Wow... It's a Fire Flower? Hrm... Well, I gotta say there, you collect some of the most interesting stuff I've ever seen!”
- —Lubba, Super Mario Galaxy 2
Fire Flowers (alternatively formatted as Fireflowers),[1] also known as Flame Flowers,[2] are power-ups introduced in Super Mario Bros. They change the player character into their Fire form, allowing them to throw fireballs, which defeat enemies, melt Ice Blocks, light up dark areas, and in some games, light candles in certain levels. The Fire Flower is grabbed and wielded in most appearances outside of the Super Mario series, and certain media such as Club Nintendo and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door suggest that Fire Flowers are eaten by the characters, just like mushrooms. While Mario in Club Nintendo remarks that the Fire Flower tastes "disgusting," the bio for Fire Flower's constellation in Mario Party 9 describes it as a spicy and "surprisingly tasty snack." It is an upgrade over the Super Mushroom, which is similarly reflected by the Flower Cup, which a Fire Flower is a symbol of, being higher ranked than the Mushroom Cup.
Fire Flowers were originally design with white petals, a center orange circle, a green stem, and two green leaves for Super Mario Bros. The design was updated in Super Mario World to resemble an orange tulip with a happy face, as well as a shorter stem and smaller leaves. Super Mario All-Stars introduced the current design of Fire Flowers, which has red and yellow petals stylized as a continuous round shape, a white face with eyes, and a green stem with two leaves. Fire Flowers in Super Smash Bros. are depicted with taller leaves and a round flower, and those in Super Smash Bros. Melee have pink petals, a yellow face with eyes, and thinner leaves.
The Fire Flower has seen a number of variants. Its ice counterpart is known as the Ice Flower, which became a common power-up after New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and its golden counterpart is known as the Gold Flower. Super Mario Bros. Wonder introduces another variant called the Bubble Flower. The Fire Flower is used as a basis for Flower Points in a few of the role-playing games.
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
Super Mario Bros. / Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels[edit]
Fire Flowers in both Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels give the player to shoot fireballs by pressing 
, after turning Mario or Luigi into his Fire form. The fireballs are strong and handy projectiles to use because they can defeat most enemies and even defeat Bowser with just five hits. There are some enemies which are immune to fireballs, such as the Buzzy Beetles. Only two fireballs can be thrown at once. If Mario gets hit while he is in Fire form, he reverts back to Small Mario. If Small Mario gets a Fire Flower, he only transforms into Super Mario.
Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
Fire Flowers give the ability to shoot fireballs in Super Mario Bros. 3. Here, it is redesigned to use a blue on white coloration, with eyes on certain larger sprites, alongside no longer using an animation. In the NES version, Fire Mario reverts to Super Mario upon being hit, nullifying the effects of the Fire Flower. In Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System releases, due to alternative values occasionally being assigned to the typical "green" palette, Fire Flower stems sometimes appear other colors, being cyan in fortress levels, light blue in tank levels, and white in ice levels containing beanstalks. The NES and SNES versions only let Small Mario to morph straight to Fire Mario through a glitch, though Small Mario can consistently morph into Fire Mario in the GBA version. The Fire Flower is redesigned in the Super Mario All-Stars version, using a new red and yellow on white coloration and having eyes consistently. Despite this, however, the Fire Flower graphics within Spade Panel and N-Spade minigames use the original version's blue on white coloration even in the remakes.
Super Mario World[edit]
Fire Flowers were redesigned for Super Mario World to appear as happy orange tulip-like plants. They work the same as usual, but Fire Mario reverts back to Small Mario in the SNES version, since the item storage of an additional power-up item, such as the Fire Flower, can fall to him, though in the remake, the downgraded form is Super Mario. Because of the added feature of spin-jumping when Mario does so by pressing 
, he shoots out fireballs left and right while in the air. The Fire Flower can upgrade the player character to their Fire form, which would become standard in later installments.
Early test cartridges used a circular appearance for the Fire Flower like in other games.
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins[edit]
Fire Flowers were reinstated in Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins, after being replaced by Superball Flowers in Super Mario Land. The Fire Flower gives Fire Mario a feather on top of his hat, since the Game Boy cannot display the color differences properly. Wario also uses a dark Fire Flower to become Fire Wario during the third portion of the final boss battle. A Fire Flower can even appear if Mario is Small.
Super Mario 64 DS[edit]
Fire Flowers are only graphics in some minigames of Super Mario 64 DS: They are on some of the cards in Luigi's card games; a symbol in Mushroom Roulette; slots in Mario Slot and Super Mario Slot, where matching three multiplies the gambled coins by ten; on cards in Psyche Out!; and cameo in Slots Shot.
New Super Mario Bros.[edit]
Fire Flowers of New Super Mario Bros. look the same as they do in Super Mario All-Stars. The Fire Flower can produce fireballs that can produce a coin, similar to Super Mario World. Fire Flowers cannot turn Shell Mario into Fire Mario and are relegated as a Stored Item. The Fire Flower is still a graphic on certain playing cards in the Table minigames from Super Mario 64 DS. The minigame Picture Poker puts Fire Flowers at a tier higher than Mushrooms.
Super Mario Galaxy[edit]
The fireballs from Fire Flowers in Super Mario Galaxy and its Nintendo Switch port not only defeat but also destroy snow obstructions and light torches. The Fire Flower wears off not by damage but after twenty seconds, meaning Mario and Luigi can take damage and still retain their Fire Mario and Fire Luigi forms, respectively. The Fire Flower allows for more than two fireballs to be thrown, but this is not usable underwater. Fire Flowers first appear in the Freezeflame Galaxy alongside Ice Flowers. They are later used to break boulders in the Dusty Dune Galaxy, light torches to open a gate in the Deep Dark Galaxy, and melt the snow in the Snow Cap Galaxy.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]
Fire Flowers appear in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, typically within underground, underwater, and snow environments. They are based mostly on their role in New Super Mario Bros., but their fireballs have a few more functions, including the ability to light up dark places; burning the shells of Prickly Goombas to revert them to Goombas; and defeat Cheep Chomps and Porcupuffers.
Super Mario Galaxy 2[edit]
The Fire Flowers of Super Mario Galaxy 2 are like those in Super Mario Galaxy while still appearing in unique capacities. Fire Flowers are first seen in the Crate Burning minigame, seen only in "The Great Crate Incinerator" of Rightside Down Galaxy and "Burning Upside Dizzy" of Upside Dizzy Galaxy; they are essential, since the player character cannot break every crate otherwise. Fire Flowers are required to defeat Squizzard in the Slipsand Galaxy's first and third missions. They also appear in Freezy Flake Galaxy, the Slipsand Galaxy and the Battle Belt Galaxy.
Super Mario 3D Land[edit]
Fire Flowers are power-up items in Super Mario 3D Land. They are like their appearances in the sidescrolling games, not Super Mario Galaxy or its sequel, other than their ability to light torches. Fire Flowers are able to destroy thistles.
New Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]
The Fire Flower reappears in New Super Mario Bros. 2. Their fireballs work like in previous games but can be shot into ! Pipes to release coins and other items. The game introduces a Fire Flower counterpart titled the Gold Flower, which turns Mario into Gold Mario, who throws golden fireballs that produce coins from hitting enemies and Brick Blocks.
New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]
The Fire Flower reappears in New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U, and their port. Their role is the most similar to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, since they allow for dark places to be lit up and Prickly Goomba shells to be burnt, but are also the most common in the same environments. Unique functions of a Fire Flower's fireballs include the ability to burn the ice platforms in Piranha Plants on Ice and Slippery Rope Ladders; obtaining Star Coins next to Big Piranha Plants and Urchins. Fire Flowers are obtainable in bubbles produced by Bubble Baby Yoshi. In the port, playing as Toadette causes most ? Blocks that would contain Fire Flowers to release Super Crowns.
Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]
The Fire Flower reappears in Super Mario 3D World and its port, having the most similarity to their appearance in Super Mario 3D Land. The fireballs of a Fire Flower can reveal the invisible platforms of Footlight Lane and Trickity Tower, destroy the spike balls in Clear Pipe Cruise and Crates in Double Cherry Pass, and cause the snow on the Trees in Snowball Park to fall. Fire Flowers are one of the slots depicted on Slot Blocks in Lucky Houses.
Super Mario Maker series[edit]
Fire Flowers reappear as power-ups in Super Mario Maker, its port, and Super Mario Maker 2. They look the same in each game style, except Super Mario Bros. 3, where they are designed similarly to their modern counterparts. Fire Flowers are placeable anywhere in Course Maker, including on Mario to turn him into Fire Mario. Fire Flowers can become status-dependent progressive items if a Super Mushroom is dragged onto them.
Fire Flowers travel away from the player character in the nighttime ground theme of Super Mario Maker 2, in addition to being featured in the job Treetop Fireballs. They can also be transformed into a Superball Flower from Super Mario Land.
Super Mario Run[edit]
Fire Flowers do not appear in Super Mario Run. However, there is a Fire Flower Statue building in the Kingdom Builder mode, The 8-bit Fire Flower Statue is another building, and the 8-bit Fire Flower Trim is a decoration. Both of these use the Fire Flower's appearance from Super Mario Bros.
Fire Flowers are stamps on the Stamp Cards in the Super Mario Bros. Wonder event in Super Mario Run from December 20, 2023 to March 15, 2024.
Super Mario Odyssey[edit]
A Fire Flower is depicted on Princess Peach's kimono in Bowser's Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey.
Super Mario Bros. 35[edit]
Fire Flowers appeared in Super Mario Bros. 35. They turn Mario into Fire Mario regardless of his previous state, and back into Super Mario if he receives damage. A Fire Flower added 15 seconds to the timer if Fire Mario obtained it. The Item Roulette had a chance of giving the player a Fire Flower.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder[edit]
The Fire Flower appears in Super Mario Bros. Wonder with no major difference from before. Although the power-up is functionally the same, players are now able to hurl fireballs whilst crouching or riding on a Yoshi.
Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen![edit]
In Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!, the Fire Flower alongside the Super Mushroom and Super Star are the three power-ups that must be combined to defeat Bowser.
DIC cartoons[edit]
- “Fire Flower for Fire Power, Mario!”
- —Princess Toadstool, "The Koopas are Coming! The Koopas are Coming!"
Fire Flowers also appeared in the cartoon television series The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World. Most episodes have their outfit either be not changed at all (often due to animation errors) or turn white and red/green (in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and Super Mario World) or orange and red (in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3).
In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, when a character touches a Fire Flower, they sometimes first gain a temporary increase in size, then gain their fire powers as well as flight and/or extra speed and strength sometimes; they are called their Super forms in this show. The following shows use the same powers and form name as in the respective games. The Fire Flower first appears in the episode "The Bird! The Bird!", where Mario uses it to melt the snow trapping him.
In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, due to their sprite's appearing blue in the coinciding game, Super Mario Bros. 3, Fire Flowers are depicted as blue and white flowers. During "Reign Storm", the Robot Princess orders all Fire Flowers to be extinguished, as if they were actual fires.
In Super Mario World, Fire Flowers look like realistic orange tulips with no eyes that are always connected to a ? Block. They sometimes spit out fireballs themselves. Mario is the only character in the show to be seen using Fire Flowers. The power-up first appears in "The Wheel Thing", where he uses it to burn some holes into some wheels.
Club Nintendo[edit]
Fire Flowers existed since the stone age, according to "Super Mario: Verloren in der Zeit." A Fire Flower is used by Mario at one point to throw Fireballs at a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Unusually, Mario eats a Fire Flower to receive their abilities and describes them as tasting disgusting.
Mario Kart series[edit]
Within every game of the Mario Kart series, the Fire Flower is the emblem of the Flower Cup.
Mario Kart Wii[edit]
A poster with a Fire Flower appears in Moonview Highway in Mario Kart Wii. If the player is a Mii, its face changes to a random Mii on the console's memory. The "Delfino Dream" store of Coconut Mall is shown to sell Fire Flowers amongst other items.
Mario Kart 7[edit]
Fire Flowers can be obtained by certain players from an Item Box in Mario Kart 7, anywhere between 2nd to 4th position, as well as 5th position if they are not CPUs. A Fire Flower is used to throw several fireballs forward or backward by pressing 
, causing racers to spin out. The Fire Flower wears off either after throwing all ten fireballs or ten seconds after the first one is thrown. Only three fireballs appear at once, and if a fourth is thrown while there are still three fireballs, the first one thrown disappears.
Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe[edit]
The Fire Flower item returns in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and it works similarly to how it did in Mario Kart 7, with the difference being one can throw more than 3 fireballs at one time. A meter is added to indicate players how much time is left until the Fire Flower's effects disappear. Additionally, the statue of Princess Peach in Toad Harbor can be seen holding a Fire Flower in its lowered right hand. A flower patch with a Fire Flower design can also be found in the background of GCN Baby Park. In Wii Coconut Mall from the Booster Course Pass, there is a shop named "Fire Flower Curry House".
Mario Kart Tour[edit]
The Fire Flower returns in Mario Kart Tour as the special item of Mario, Luigi, Red Toad (Pit Crew), Red Koopa (Freerunning), Fire Bro, Birdo (Green), Metal Mario, Mario (Santa), Wario (Cowboy), Daisy (Yukata), Peach (Halloween), Fire Rosalina, Pauline (Rose), Gold Mario (outside of Coin Rush), and the Mario, Luigi, and Piranha Plant Mii Racing Suits. When deployed, fireballs orbit the player's kart and can fire a spread of three fireballs instead of throwing several fireballs, very much like the Fireball from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. When Fire Flower+ is active, a fourth fireball is added, allowing the player to use four fireballs as opposed to just three.
Mario Kart World[edit]
The Fire Flower returns in Mario Kart World, behaving similarly to past appearances, although it is limited to eight fireballs rather than ten.
Mario is Missing![edit]
The fire flower appears only in the PC version of Mario is Missing!, once every artifact has been returned in every city and gives Luigi the ability to burn the Koopa Kid and continue to the next floor of Bowser's Castle.
UNDAKE30 Same Game[edit]
Fire Flowers in their Super Mario World design are one of the objects within the playing field in UNDAKE30 Same Game.
Mario's FUNdamentals[edit]
Fire Flowers from Super Mario World are depicted on dominoes representing a 4 in the Dominoes game in Mario's FUNdamentals.
Mario's Picross[edit]
A Fire Flower (referred to as a Sun-Flower) appears in Mario's Picross as one of the images that must be cleared.
Mario Party series[edit]
Fire Flowers throughout the Mario Party series usually appear as simple background decoration and elements in various puzzle minigames rather than as power-up items. Their first appearance in the series is the Nintendo 64 game Mario Party, where they appear on some of the panels in the minigame Memory Match, and as slots in Slot Machine, where if three Fire Flower are lined up, the player gets 8 coins. In Mario Party 5, the Fire Flower is a roulette item in the minigame Panic Pinball and one of the flooring types in the minigame Squared Away. In Mario Party 6, similarly to Mario Party's Slot Machine, Fire Flowers appear as slots in the minigame Slot Trot, and the game also features them as one of the pictures in Pixel Perfect and as a target in the introductory cutscene of Hyper Sniper. In Mario Party Advance, Fire Flowers appear in the minigames Match 'Em and Pair 'Em, appearing on the slots and the cards, respectively, and if three Fire Flowers are matched on the slots in Match 'Em, the player earns 150 coins. In Mario Party 8, there is a possibility of a Fire Flower being projected by the projectors in the minigame Picture Perfect. In Mario Party DS, Fire Flowers are among the pair of cards in Memory Mash. In Mario Party 9 and Mario Party: Island Tour, a Fire Flower is one of the puzzles in the minigame Jigsaw Jumble and Tile Savvy, respectively, and Fire Flowers also appear in the latter game's Xylophone Home. In Mario Party: Star Rush, Fire Flowers appear in the minigame One-Stop Toad Shop, where they can be requested by some Toads, and on some pictures in Top It Off. In Mario Party: The Top 100, Fire Flowers retain their appearances in Slot Trot and Jigsaw Jumble, but not Squared Away, which removed the Fire Flower flooring. In Mario Party Superstars, a Fire Flower frame is added to the Mario Party minigame Tipsy Tourney.
Super Smash Bros. series[edit]
- SmashWiki article: Fire Flower
In the Super Smash Bros. series, the Fire Flower appears as an item in every installment to date. Once picked up, the player, instead of gaining the ability to throw fireballs, can shoot a continuous but short stream of fire from it to damage anyone nearby. It does have a limit to how much fire it can use, and loses its abilities after constant use. The Fire Flower also deals fire damage if it hits an opponent when thrown. In Super Smash Bros., the Fire Flowers are alike to their debut appearance, but in Super Smash Bros. Melee, they look like daisies with eyes and white petals, a design which is original to Super Smash Bros. From Super Smash Bros. Brawl onwards, the Fire Flower is given its appearance from Super Mario All-Stars.
In addition, a Fire Flower appears as a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which can be used on a fighter in The Subspace Emissary to grant them a Fire Flower at the beginning of a stage. A Fire Flower also appears as a Novice-class support spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. When used, it similarly equips the fighter with a Fire Flower at the beginning of a battle. This spirit's core can be combined with the cores of Metal Mario and a Super Mushroom to summon the Gold Mario spirit, or with the cores of Charlotte Aulin and a Freezie to summon the Koume & Kotake spirit.
Mario and Luigi use Fireballs as their standard special move. Mario shoots red fireballs, and Luigi shoots green, like in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! This is the first game in which Mario and Luigi use the flower itself to throw fireballs rather than transforming into their Fire forms, a tactic that would later be used in the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series.
Paper Mario series[edit]
| Fire Flower | |
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| Paper Mario description | A flower that burns all enemies with fireballs. Attack Power: 3 |
| The Thousand-Year Door description | Attacks all enemies with fireballs and burns them. |
| The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) description | Attacks all enemies with fireballs that do 3 damage and burns them. |
Paper Mario[edit]
The Fire Flower is a one-use item in Paper Mario. It uses a similar design to its Super Mario World design, but with a face more similar to its Super Mario All Stars design. It can be found in shops, enemy item drops (such as from Piranha Plants), and item blocks. Rather than transforming Mario, Mario plants the Fire Flower, and the Fire Flower emits fire that burns opponents. If used against ice enemies, it deals an extra 2 damage points, whereas it replenishes the health of fire enemies such as the Lava Bubble and Ember. These items can be purchased in many shops, such as in the Shroom Grocery from Toad Town, Koopa's Shop from Koopa Village, and Yoshi's Cabana from Lavalava Island.
Tayce T. can also cook her own Fire Flower by mixing a Dried Fruit and a Strange Leaf, two items that resemble the two parts of a Fire Flower.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Fire Flowers reuse their design from the previous game. They can be purchased in Toad Bros. Bazaar from Rogueport, Niff T.'s shop from Petalburg, and Keelhaul Galleria from Keelhaul Key. If the Fire Flower is used against ice enemies, it deals an extra damage point. Fire Flowers can be also used as ingredients to be made into new items with a help of Tayce T. or Zess T. Recipes can be found below.
Similar to the Club Nintendo comic, this game also claims that Mario does indeed eat Fire Flowers: a certain optional scene in the Glitz Pit has Mario informing a Lakitu cameraman that he "shoots fire when he eats a flower".
Recipes[edit]
Paper Mario[edit]
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 Dried Fruit +  Strange Leaf
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 Fire Flower
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| Fire Flower
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 Spicy Soup
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Fire Flower +  Dried Shroom
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 Fried Shroom
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Fire Flower +  Goomnut
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 Bland Meal
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Fire Flower +  Volt Shroom
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Fire Flower +  Super Shroom
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Fire Flower +  Life Shroom
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Fire Flower +  Egg
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 Egg Missile
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Fire Flower +  Iced Potato
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 Frozen Fries
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Fire Flower +  Mushroom
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 Hot Shroom
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Fire Flower +  Ultra Shroom
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 Yummy Meal
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Fire Flower +  Cake Mix
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 Fire Pop
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
| Recipe | Result |
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 Fire Flower
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 Spicy Soup
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Fire Flower +  Dried Bouquet
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Fire Flower +  Hot Sauce
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| Fire Flower + |