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'''Flitterbloom''' is a [[magic]]al plant that apparently has long, swaying tentacles. It bears a superficial resemblance to the deadly plant [[Devil's Snare]], but it is harmless, so much so that [[wizards|wizards and witches]] keep it as a pot plant or grow it in their gardens.
 
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|image = HM y4 Flitterbloom.png
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|name =
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|native =
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|environment =
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|related = [[Devil's Snare]] (possibly)
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|sentience = Non-sentient
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|root =
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|stem = Green in colour
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|leaves =
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|flowers =
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|fruits =
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|food =
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|distinction = *Long swaying tentacles
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*Harmless garden and indoor plant
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*Resembles the [[Devil's Snare]]
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|usage = *Garden or indoor plant
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*[[Herbology]]
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|status = Extant
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'''Flitterbloom''' was a [[magic]]al plant that apparently has long, swaying tentacles.
   
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==Description==
[[Miriam Strout]], a [[Healer]] at [[St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries|St Mungo's]], mistook the potted cutting of [[Devil's Snare]] sent to [[Broderick Bode]] at Christmas [[1995]] for Flitterbloom.
 
 
It bore a superficial resemblance to the deadly plant [[Devil's Snare]], but was harmless, so much so that [[Wizardkind|wizards and witches]] keep it as an indoor plant or grew it in their gardens.
   
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==History==
[[Georgina Smyth]] wrote in to ''[[Toots, Shoots 'n' Roots]]'' asking how she should treat a Flitterbloom that she hadn't watered in months.
 
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During the [[1987–1988 school year]], the plant was studied in [[Fourth year]] [[Herbology]] class.<ref>{{HM|4|7|h}}</ref>
   
 
[[Miriam Strout]], a [[Healer]] at [[St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries|St Mungo's]], mistook the potted cutting of [[Devil's Snare]] sent to [[Broderick Bode]] at Christmas [[1995]] for Flitterbloom.<ref name="OOTP23">{{OOTP|B|23}}</ref><ref name="OOTP25">{{OOTP|B|25}}</ref>
==Appearances==
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' {{mention}}
 
*''[[J.K.Rowling Official Site]]''
 
*''[[The Wizarding World of Harry Potter]]''
 
   
 
[[Georgina Smyth]] wrote in to ''[[Toots, Shoots 'n' Roots]]'' asking how she should treat a Flitterbloom that she hadn't [[water]]ed in months.<ref name="JKRS">{{JKRS}}</ref>
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==Appearances==
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*{{OOTP}} {{1st Mention}}
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*{{JKRS}}
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*{{WWHP}}
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*{{HM}} {{1st}}
   
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==Notes and references==
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{{Reflist}}
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{{Herbology}}
   
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[[es:Flor voladora]]
 
[[fr:Voltiflor]]
 
[[fr:Voltiflor]]
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[[pl:Fruwokwiat]]
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[[ru:Цветокрылка]]
 
[[Category:Plants]]
 
[[Category:Plants]]
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Revision as of 03:12, 25 June 2020

Flitterbloom was a magical plant that apparently has long, swaying tentacles.

Description

It bore a superficial resemblance to the deadly plant Devil's Snare, but was harmless, so much so that wizards and witches keep it as an indoor plant or grew it in their gardens.

History

During the 1987–1988 school year, the plant was studied in Fourth year Herbology class.[1]

Miriam Strout, a Healer at St Mungo's, mistook the potted cutting of Devil's Snare sent to Broderick Bode at Christmas 1995 for Flitterbloom.[2][3]

Georgina Smyth wrote in to Toots, Shoots 'n' Roots asking how she should treat a Flitterbloom that she hadn't watered in months.[4]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 7 (Beast, Beings, and Creatures) - Herbology Lesson "Flitterbloom"
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 23 (Christmas on the Closed Ward)
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 25 (The Beetle at Bay)
  4. J. K. Rowling's official site
Herbology
Pottedmandrake
Herbologists
Astrid Cole · Clifford Cromwell · Marmaduke Dale · Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Alfred Lawley · Olgae Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Yubert Thorne · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store · Hidden Herbology Corridor
Greenhouses One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Professor's office
Professors Mirabel Garlick's predecessor · Mirabel Garlick · Herbert Beery · Pomona Sprout · Neville Longbottom
Textbooks Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Alihotsy · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Dandelion · Devil's Snare · Dirigible Plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire seed bush · Flitterbloom · Floo · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Greenhouse Tree · Hemlock · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lady's Mantle · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Lovage · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Peppermint · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Scurvy grass · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Sopophorous Bean · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Severing Charm (Diffindo)