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"Hello, class! Notice any particularly enticing smells today? I know what you're thinking, I'm not trying out a new perfume today. What you're smelling is the subject of today's lesson... the Flutterby Bush! Let's start with a practical overview of caring for the Flutterby bush."
Professor Pomona Sprout to her sixth-year Herbology students[src]

The Flutterby Bush was a magical plant that quivered and shook. It produced flowers once a century that adapted their scent to attract the unwary.[1]

History[]

Flutterby Bush HM

Jacob's sibling watering a Flutterby bush in Herbology

Sixth-year students in Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were taught how to prune these bushes in the 1989–1990 school year by Professor Pomona Sprout.[2]

During the 1994–1995 school year at Hogwarts, fourth-years were taught instead how to prune these bushes in Herbology.[3]

In 1997, Molly Weasley planted two Flutterby Bush in the garden at The Burrow in preparation for the wedding of her son, Bill, to Fleur Delacour.[4]

Known scents[]

Etymology[]

"Flutterby" is a childish way of saying "butterfly". Contrary to popular belief, it isn't an old name for the insect.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Sorting Hat quiz question on Pottermore (screenshot available here)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 36 (Search for the Mole) - Herbology Lesson "Flutterby Bush"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 20 (The First Task)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 6 (The Ghoul in Pyjamas)

See also[]

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)
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