Bloodflower

Bloodflowers are enemy plants encountered in Metroid Prime.
==Description==
Bloodflowers are poisonous plants native to the Tallon Overworld. They appears as large pods composed of four petals that usually remain closed. At their base appear to be root structures resembling small mouths, which contain the plant's brain system. Bloodflowers are normally dormant until they sense a threat, in which case they become agitated and will attack. 
Bloodflowers launch concentrated clusters of toxic spores at opposing life-forms in order to subdue or kill them. Firing at the spore will cause it to rupture toxic material. If it was near the creature, the Bloodflower will let out a sort of "scream" then burn. In some cases a Bloodflower will be adjacent to a Sap Sac; if one explodes within range of a Bloodflower, it will burst into flames in the same manner as the first method of defeat. They can also be easily dealt with a charged shot from the Plasma Beam or Ice Beam.
Bloodflowers can be seen in Root Tunnel, Root Cave and Great Tree Hall.
==Official Data==
===Logbook entry===
===Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion: Prima's Official Strategy Guide===
;Bloodflower
:"These giant plants emit a deadly toxin, which is harmful to anyone who draws too close. The Bloodflower also shoots balls of poison at nearby enemies. The poison balls travel slowly and can be shot out of the air. Doing so not only saves you from taking damage, but it causes a small lick of flame to fly back into the Bloodflower, which burns it to a crisp. This is the best way to eliminate these evil flowers, but later in the game, the Plasma Beam is equally effective."
;Bloodflower
:Found In: Tallon Overworld
:Recommended Weapon: Plasma Beam
:"Bloodflowers are stationary, but they eject poisonous spores if you wander within their reach. The spores are lethal to you and it. To destroy this dangerous plant, keep your distance and wait for it to propel the green ball of spores at you. Once the ball is in the air, shoot the ball to send the spores back to the Bloodflower. The resulting explosion should be enough to wipe out the vicious plant. The Plasma Beam is extremely effective against this enemy. Although the Ice Beam can be used, it won't eliminate the enemy; you'll have to follow up the cold attack with a missile to finish the job."
===Metroid Prime: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide===
;BLOODFLOWER
:"There is a door at the top of the Tallon Canyon waterfall that leads to the Root Tunnel. Inside, you'll find a Bloodflower. The large plant fires toxic spores that you can destroy with the Arm Cannon. To take out the Bloodflower, fire a Missile or shoot the Sap Sac growing overhead." 
===Metroid Prime Official Strategy Guide===
;BLOODFLOWER
:MORPHOLOGY
:"The Bloodflower is able to eject toxic spores. Toxins are poisonous even to the Bloodflower itself. Three mouth-nodules protrude from the stalk beneath the flower, each with a rudimentary brain cluster and the ability to spew toxic fumes at anything within a five meter radius. The spores ejected from the Stigma at the center of the flower are sufficient to kill this creature if they explode in its vicinity."
:COMBAT TIPS
:"The Bloodflower can actually damage itself with its own spores, but the catch is that Samus must be close enough to the Bloodflower that the flower's attacks will explode close by. The best way to take out a Bloodflower is to hit it when the flower is open (otherwise it's invulnerable). Power Beam is sufficient but a Missile strike takes this enemy down in one shot."
===Metroid Prime Official Perfect Guide===
;BLOODFLOWER
:"A Bloodflower will fire poison spores at you; use your Charge Beam or Missile to destroy it."
==Trivia==
*Strangely, in the Root Tunnel, if Samus is standing in front of one of the doors and manages to dodge the Bloodflower's projectile, the spore will ricochet off the door and Samus will get a message saying the "door cannot be opened with this weapon" despite her not being the who fired the incompatible object.
*Flaahgra's giant plant flower closely resembles a Bloodflower. It may have been a Bloodflower before its corruption by Phazon.
*The name of the Bloodflower may indicate that the spores it fires are actually its own blood, or it may refer to the blood that is produced when one dies.
*The Remastered artwork displays a small mouth with fangs within a Bloodflower's center bud. This mouth design bears a small resemblance to a Samus Eater plant, another botanical creature encountered in the Metroid series.
==Gallery==
Bloodlower crop.png|A Bloodflower in Root Tunnel.
Root Tunnel.jpg|Root Tunnel
Bloodflower Sap Sac Burn Remastered.png|A Bloodflower burned by a Sap Sac explosion in Root Tunnel from Metroid Prime Remastered.
Biology - Remastered 17.png|Metroid Prime Remastered artwork
== References ==
es:Flor Sangrienta
ru:Кровоцвет
Category:Species
Category:Flowers
Category:Tallon IV
Category:Tallon Overworld
Category:Poisonous Flora, Fauna, and Fungi
Category:Carnivorous Plants