Floragore

Floragore is a boss in Mario & Luigi: Dino Trio, it appears in Sunnyside Beach as the first major boss of the game.
Floragore is presumed to be the king of the Bushlings, a species found in Dinosaur Island.
== Appearence ==
Floragore resembles a large bush with blade-shaped pink eyes with crossed red pupils, on its forehead is a normally red flower with a yellow center. 
Unlike most Bushlings, it has long arms with pointy sticks as fingers, much like the Bushlings, it has short legs made of wood, a wide open mouth and the aforementioned cross-eyes.
In the Battle Ring, Floragore X appears, it is pink with yellow eyes and "grayer" wooden parts, meant to resemble a cherry blossom tree
== History ==
When Mario and Luigi wake up in Coddle Woods, they explore, find hammers and reach Sunnyside Beach, where the Toad Express and Koopa Cruiser are crashed on the sand with a large bush around them, Mario checks the bush and it turns around and yells its name at them, "Floragore", before starting a fight.
Floragore is defeated and withers away, Mario and Luigi go inside of the Toad Express to save Peach and they leave to continue their adventure.
== Battle ==
Floragore's fight is simple, if its attacks hit the brothers, it has a chance of stealing one of the following Attack Blocks: Jump, Hammer and Item. Attack Blocks can be retrieved by attacking Floragore enough.
Its first attack is if it has no blocks, it just punches one of the bros with the corresponding hand (Right = Mario, Left = Luigi), this attack can be countered by jumping and getting hit can mean losing an Attack Block.
Its attack with the jump block is bouncing into the air and landing on a bro, the tell for this attack is the shadow on the ground, this can be countered with the hammer.
For the hammer block attack, it creates a mallet with branches and throws it at a bro, if its arm goes downwards, the mallet is going for Mario, upwards is for Luigi. Floragore can switch the direction before throwing to confuse the player.
If it has the item block, it can use a mushroom to heal itself or spit a poison mushroom at a brother, the tell is the same as for the hammer. If Floragore uses a mushroom, it does not take it from the player's inventory. The tell for the poison mushroom attack is the flower on its head switching between purple and green for Luigi and purple and red for Mario.
== Etymology ==
Floragore is a combination of Flora (The variety/group of plants in an area) and Gore (Blood and guts), because it is a bush and it tries to kill or severely harm anyone who messes with it.
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