The Best Flower Cameos in Pop Culture

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Flowers play an important role in our lives; present weddings, celebrations, graduations, birth, and death. Not only do flowers mark important milestones, but they also make several appearances in pop culture. Since cinema, television, and gaming reflect what is currently valued in mainstream society, it’s easy to see why flowers are a common plot point in media.

The Top 7 Flower Cameos in Media

Let’s take a look at how flowers have played a starring or, at least, a beneficial role in media.

1. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Rose

When an enchantress dressed as a beggar offers the Prince a rose for shelter, she is turned away. In her anger, she transforms the Prince into a beast with a curse, which can only be broken by true love before the last petal on the rose falls. The rose serves as a clock, which can be quickened through misuse. Who knew Valentine’s Day roses could be so deadly?

2. Legend of Zelda: The Bomb Flower

The Bomb Flower is an item in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that grows in various places throughout Hyrule. It’s a flower that grows solely to be explosive. When Link equips the Goron Bracelet early on in the game, he can throw them at enemies to damage them or at cracked walls to reveal secret caves. It remains as one of the most useful items in the game.

3. The Wizard of Oz: Deadly Poppies

Featured in the movie, book, and musical, the deadly poppies that separate Dorothy and the gang from the Emerald City have a potent fragrance. Passer-bys are tempted by their smell, which makes you fall into an endless sleep. Lucky for our heroes, they manage to escape the flower’s clutches only to find themselves on a quest to save the world from the Wicked Witch.

4. Pikmin Series: The Little Pikmin

The Pikmin series follows the misadventures of the brave Captain Olimar, who crashes on a planet with an unbreathable atmosphere. On this planet, Olimar finds Pikmin, which are half-sentient, half-plant creatures that grow flowers on top of their heads. Without the help of Olimar’s Pikmin friends, who can fight, carry objects, and swim, he wouldn’t have gotten off the planet alive.

5. Alice in Wonderland: Painted Roses

The books and movies all feature the most popular and prominent dictator, the Red Queen, who is obsessed with painting her white roses red. Alice in Wonderland features more than just one set of flowers; in fact, many of them talk. While Alice is on her way to speak to the Caterpillar, she is ambushed by daisies, lilies, and pussy willows who aren’t pleased to see her.

6. Super Mario Series: Petey the Piranha

Piranha plants have been a standard Mario enemy since the original Super Mario game on the Nintendo. Resembling the venus fly trap, this fierce enemy has taken a bite out of Mario several times throughout the series, but only Petey the Piranha is seen with a flower crown. What’s more, Petey the Piranha is much more difficult to take down due to his status as a boss enemy.

7. Batman: Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy, one of the recurring villains in Batman, is more well known for her use of ivy than flowers. However, fans of the comic have seen her use various flowers and plants in combat. The venus flytrap, which blooms with a large white flower, is her favorite weapon, but Poison Ivy also uses rose thorns, corpse flowers, and various poisons she extracts from different blooms.