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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has dozens of flowers that players can plant all over their island. This will greatly enhance any island’s beauty and increase its rating, so players can get a 5-Star island rating in New Horizons.
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Each island has its own starting flower. However, players can find other species by island hopping or purchasing different seeds. Every flower type has hybrid flowers that can only be obtained by crossbreeding different colored flowers. This guide tells players how they can get each hybrid flower in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
How to Breed Flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
In New Horizons, players will be able to plant flowers of specific colors. They can then breed them by watering until another flower sprouts right next to it. As long as there is space next to a watered flower, it has a chance to breed overnight.
If a flower is by itself, it won’t crossbreed and potentially sprout a different colored flower. It will simply clone itself and produce another equal specimen.
How to Crossbreed Flowers and Get Hybrids in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Certain flower combinations will result in the creation of hybrid flowers, which can be different colors from those found within seed packets.
To crossbreed flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, gamers will need two flower colors that are compatible to crossbreed. For there to be crossbreeding in New Horizons, players must place the two flowers next to each other, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, water them, and wait until the next day.
The most efficient way to guarantee that flowers successfully crossbreed and result in the creation of a hybrid is to place them in an X pattern to ensure that more flowers are in contact.
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Flower |
Color |
How to Get |
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Cosmo |
Orange |
Breed a red Cosmo and a yellow Cosmo. |
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Pink |
Breed a red Cosmo and a white Cosmo. |
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Black |
Breed two orange Cosmos. |
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Mum |
Pink |
Breed a red Mum and a white Mum. |
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Purple |
Breed a white Mum and a white Mum. |
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Green |
Breed two purple Mums. |
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Lilly |
Orange |
Breed a red Lilly and a yellow Lilly. |
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Pink |
Breed a red Lilly and a white Lilly. |
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Black |
Breed a red Lilly and a red Lilly. |
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Windflower |
Pink |
Breed a red Windflower and a white Windflower. |
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Blue |
Breed two white Windflowers. |
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Purple |
Breed two blue Windflowers. |
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Tulip |
Orange |
Breed a red Tulip and a yellow Tulip. |
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Pink |
Breed a red Tulip and a white Tulip. |
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Black |
Breed two red Tulips. |
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Purple |
Breed two orange Tulips. |
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Hyacinth |
Orange |
Breed a red Hyacinth and a yellow Hyacinth. |
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Pink |
Breed a red Hyacinth and a white Hyacinth. |
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Blue |
Breed two white Hyacinths. |
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Purple |
Breed two orange Hyacinths. |
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Pansy |
Orange |
Breed a red Pansy and a yellow Pansy. |
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Blue |
Breed two white Pansies. |
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Hybrid red |
Breed a red Pansy and a blue Pansy. |
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Hybrid orange |
Breed an orange Pansy and a blue Pansy. |
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Purple |
Breed two hybrid red Pansies or two hybrid orange Pansies. |
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Rose |
Pink |
Breed a red Rose and a white Rose. |
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Orange |
Breed a red Rose and a yellow Rose. |
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Black |
Breed two red Roses. |
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Purple |
Breed two white Roses. |
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Hybrid red |
Breed a white Rose and an orange Rose. |
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Blue |
Breed two hybrid red Roses. |
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Gold |
Breed a black Rose by watering it with a gold watering can. |
- Released
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March 20, 2020
- ESRB
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Everyone / Comic Mischief, Mild Fantasy Violence, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases
- Developer(s)
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Nintendo EPD
- Publisher(s)
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Nintendo
