Sunflora's body is based on a sunflower. Every part of Sunflora’s body but its head is colored green, with its face being cream-colored. Its head is circular and sports sunflower-like yellow petals from the sides, although the back of its head is cream-colored. Sunflora has leaves extending like arms from its round body, and two toes on each foot.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Sunflora’s diverse movepool makes it a versatile species. For instance, Sunflora can use seed-based attacks such as Leech Seed, Bullet Seed, and Worry Seed as well as moves that rely on leaves, including Razor Leaf and Leaf Storm. Additionally, Sunflora can learn a range of HP-restoring moves such as Mega Drain or Ingrain and even acquire the weather-manipulating Sunny Day.
Behavior
Sunflora are constantly seen with a wide smile. Sunflora are only awake during the day: they awake as soon as the Sun rises and close their petals to go to sleep as soon as the sun sets. While the sun is up, they move about in a hectic manner pursuing warm sunlight but come to a complete stop when the sun sets.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky: In addition to what happened in Explorers of Time and Darkness, there is a special episode titled Today's "Oh My Gosh". It shows Sunflora attempting a mission issued to her by Magnezone and Wigglytuff, which is to capture a Haunter, also known as 'The Invincible Haunter'. She and Loudred defeat Haunter at the end of the special episode.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
Sunflora converts solar energy into nutrition. It moves around actively in the daytime when it is warm. It stops moving as soon as the sun goes down for the night.
Sunflora shares the same species name with Espeon. They are both known as the Sun Pokémon.
Despite being a Pokémon classified as the Sun Pokémon, it cannot learn Morning Sun. However, it is able to learn Synthesis, which is a move variation of Morning Sun.
Sunflora is Meowth's most frequently used Pokémon disguise.
The number of Sunflora's petals is altering in between generations:
On it's "bottom layer" (as seen on backsprites), there are 7 petals in it's Generation II and Generation III sprites (it also can be seen in Sunflora's Gold sprite), while 8 petals in Generation IV.
Sunflora is tied with Roserade for the lowest base Defense of all fully-evolved Grass-types.
Sunflora's name is a combination of sun and flora, referring to the plants and sunlight. Its name is also reminiscent of Sunflower. Its Japanese name may be a combination of 黄 ki, yellow, 吉 ki, joy, or 曦 ki, sun, and 向日葵 himawari, sunflower.
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