Iris/Stage 2

The **Iris** is a petal in florr.io that poisons anything that it touches, dealing damage over time.

## Appearance

Petal: A small (the same size as a Fast petal), purple petal with a dark purple outline.

Flowers with the petal's effect: Poisoned flowers turn purple and frown regardless of whether or not they're defending.

## Function

Poisons any enemy that touches it. Poison deals 15 dps except for the mythic rarity, in which case it deals 45 dps. The enemy will take the amount of damage shown by the petal's poison stat.

Poison does not stack. Applying more poison before prior poison has ended will reset the poison value to either the current one or the one of the petal that hit it, whichever is higher. It will not add poison onto the pre-existing value.

## Drops

### Obtaining

* The Iris drops in both main game modes but not in PvP
* In Garden, Evil Centipedes drop irises at a high rate. These can be farmed quickly to gain a lot of irises.
* In Desert, Scorpions drop it. Later waves spawn more scorpions, so surviving late game is the best way to gain these.

## Strategy

Irises have the highest raw damage of any one petal, even higher than that of a mythic Stinger. However, the poison does not deal damage immediately, so other petals have higher burst damage. Furthermore, the iris has low health and a high respawn timer. Iris is generally good against targets with high damage but struggles against hordes of low HP enemies.

Iris users should keep their iris protected at all costs when not in use. The long respawn timer means that it'll be awhile before it comes back.

### Garden

* The mob with the highest HP is the Ant Hole. Landing an iris on it will deal substantial damage, but keep in mind that the hole will continuously pour ants out for awhile. It's better than using a stinger which will release them all at once though.
	+ The iris is bad against the ants, so have high DPS petals too.

### Desert

* In desert, irises are most effective against Sandstorms due to their high HP. It's best to make a quick hit on a sandstorm and quickly retreat afterwards.

### PvP

* Landing an iris on a player dooms them into losing most or all of their HP.
	+ Combining an iris with a Dandelion is one of the deadliest combos in the game. The iris will deal a substantial amount of damage while the dandelion will prevent the opponent from healing while taking damage.
* A mythic iris is a guaranteed kill unless the opponent has spammed cacti or healing petals, but if they did that, they'll lack offense and be an easy target.
* A Faster or Yin Yang makes the petal harder to destroy and more likely to land a hit.
* Iris users should be careful of Salt users since attacking one will cause the attacker to take some damage too.
* An iris can easily be destroyed by most other petals, so iris users must be careful about not letting their iris die in combat without hitting an opponent.

## Gallery

Iris in the petal galleryIris in a full Unusual petal build except for Legendary EggThis is the Iris, the only Unusual Petal in that build.Weak but strong flowerIris Combat.pngTwo players with Irises in Hard, one chasing the other.
## Trivia

* The Iris shares the poison effect with Peas (rare or higher), Cactus (rare or higher) and Pincer.
* The poison effect from the Iris is, for any given rarity, the strongest.