Primal Sunflower

Primal Sunflowers pop out large suns instead of regular ones.

### Costumes

Primal Sunflower is new to all this sun-giving business, so be patient with her. She's an early adopter of the all-you-can-stuff-yourself buffet style of sun production.

*For the modern counterpart, see Sunflower.*
*For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Primal Sunflower.*
**Primal Sunflower** is the fourth plant obtained in Jurassic Marsh. She is the primal version of Sunflower. She produces 75 sun instead of 50. A slight downside to that is she also costs 25 more sun than her modern counterpart.

## Origins

Like her modern counterpart, Primal Sunflower's design is based on the *Helianthus annuus*, known as the common sunflower.

## Almanac entry

**Primal Sunflower**

SUN COST: 75

RECHARGE: 5

TOUGHNESS: 300

SUN PRODUCTION: Large

FAMILY: Enlighten-mint

Primal Sunflowers pop out large suns instead of regular ones.

Sun Production: large suns

Primal Sunflower is new to all this sun-giving business, so be patient with her. She's an early adopter of the all-you-can-stuff-yourself buffet style of sun production.

## Upgrades

### Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Primal Sunflower generates three big suns worth 225 sun in total. The amount of sun produced is identical to Sun-shroom's Plant Food ability.

### Enlighten-mint effect

When boosted by Enlighten-mint, Primal Sunflower's sun production rate will increase to every five seconds, and it will produce an additional 75 sun.

### Level upgrades  (China only)

 Combat Training
 Cell Activation
 Fighting Power
 Fighting Power

### Costumed  (China only)

Primal Sunflower now has a chance to generate one big gold coin as well.

## Strategies

Primal Sunflower serves the middle ground between Sunflower and Twin Sunflower, functioning identically to a fully grown Sun-shroom both in sun production and Plant Food ability. Therefore, the choice between Primal Sunflower and Sun-shroom is entirely up to the player. While the former has full production capability from the start but costs more to build, the latter is more disposable and can be planted in larger amounts early on, but takes a long period of time to grow. However, in levels which tell the player "Spend no more than X sun", bringing Sun-Shroom is better.

For Endless Zones, the player can bring Primal Sunflower along so that sun production will be faster to set their defenses up quicker. This is crucial in high-cost setups.

## Trivia

* Before the 4.4.1 update, she could be used in almost all Last Stand and Sun Bombs levels, with the exception of the levels in Jurassic Marsh.
	+ The glitch also happened to Toadstool, Stallia, and Sunflower Singer, but it has been fixed.
	+ Primal Sunflower could also have been used on Dark Ages - Night 14, which disallows the use of all sun-producing plants except her and Sun Bean.
* In the 4.3 update, there was an error in the Almanac showing this plant's recharge as Mediocre; this was fixed in the 4.4 update.
* In her Spanish and Portuguese Almanac entry, Primal Sunflower is referred to as a male.
* Her lizard hat costume resembles Lumpy's appearrance in the pilot episode from the hit animated Internet show *Happy Tree Friends.*.

### Specific to  the Chinese version (China only)

* She can be used in Sky City - Day 24, even though it is a Last Stand level.

## See also

* Sun
* Sunflower
* Sun-shroom
* Twin Sunflower

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