Pollen Flowers

Pollen Flowers are flowers that produce pollen, which is used to level up butterflies and to feed and level up the Bee Fly. They can be upgraded with Flutterbucks to produce more pollen per shift and improve the Honeydew efficiency. Some butterflies can use their Special Ability to halve the cost of a shift, and the Buff-Tailed Bumblebee can double the pollen created.

There is currently a maximum total of six Pollen Flowers in the forest with fixed spots. They come in five colours: blue, pink, red, yellow and orange.

Shifts

Shift Menu Stage 1Stage 1 – Stage 2Stage 2 – Stage 3Stage 3 – Stage 4Stage 4 – Stage 5Stage 5 Low Honeydew BalanceLow Honeydew Balance – Pollen OvercappedPollen Overcapped

To get pollen from Pollen Flowers, you must choose a shift, which can be hurried with Flutterbucks.

The amount of pollen you can keep in your forest at once is limited to a maximum of 1,000 pollen per Pollen Flower unlocked (irrespective of upgrade level). While it is possible to exceed this cap with the use of the Honeybee, it is not possible to start new shifts until you have fed enough pollen to your butterflies.

In order to start a shift you must have space for the amount the shift produces (without having been doubled by the Honeybee) plus 1. The maximum amount of pollen possible is therefore 9,717, achieved by starting six Honeybee improved "Storm of Pollen" shifts while at 5,661 pollen.

Upgrading

	During the Tutorial you are introduced to upgrading Pollen Flowers. Before you reach this step the button will be greyed out.
	Each flower upgrade will require spending increasingly more Flutterbucks: First upgrade to 2nd Stage 5 Second upgrade to 3rd Stage 10 Third upgrade to 4th Stage 20 Fourth upgrade to 5th Stage 40.   Upgrading a Pollen Flowers completely costs 75 in total and upgrading all six Pollen Flowers costs a total of 445 (as the upgrade during the Tutorial is free).
	Once you have fully upgraded a Pollen Flower, the button will be greyed out again.

Production Values

The shorter the shift, the more pollen you will get per honeydew invested. A longer shift will result in more pollen, but at a higher cost. (This table doesn't reflect the usage of one or more Honeybees or the usage of the Special Ability to half the cost of the next pollen flower shift.)

Shift	Stage	Generated	per	per minute	per hour
Speck of Pollen 5   30 seconds	1	1	5	2	120
	2	3	1.67	6	360
	3	5	1	10	600
	4	7	0.71	14	840
	5	9	0.56	18	1080
Chunk of Pollen 60   10 minutes	1	14	4.29	1.4	84
	2	18	3.33	1.8	108
	3	22	2.73	2.2	132
	4	26	2.31	2.6	156
	5	30	2	3	180
Whirl of Pollen 200   1 hour	1	35	5.71	0.58	35
	2	41	4.88	0.68	41
	3	47	4.26	0.78	47
	4	53	3.77	0.88	53
	5	59	3.39	0.98	59
Flurry of Pollen 600   4 hours	1	75	8	0.31	18.75
	2	83	7.23	0.35	20.75
	3	91	6.59	0.38	22.75
	4	99	6.06	0.41	24.75
	5	107	5.61	0.45	26.75
Cloud of Pollen 1,200   8 hours	1	150	8	0.31	18.75
	2	160	7.5	0.33	20
	3	170	7.06	0.35	21.25
	4	180	6.67	0.38	22.5
	5	190	6.32	0.4	23.75
Storm of Pollen 3,000   20 hours	1	290	10.34	0.24	14.5
	2	302	9.93	0.25	15.1
	3	314	9.55	0.26	15.7
	4	326	9.2	0.27	16.3
	5	338	8.88	0.28	16.9

Spots

When expanding through the forest occasionally you will find a Pollen Flower spot instead of more space for your butterflies. These spots are fixed and apart from the first two flowers they can be unlocked in any order.

The picture to the right shows the spots where Pollen Flowers can be found.

Colours

There are five possible colours for Pollen Flowers. The first flower unlocked is blue and the second is pink, however the colours of the remaining flowers are completely random, so there is no guarantee that all five colours will be present in your forest. It is not possible to influence the starting colour of a Pollen Flower, but it can be changed by using a Special Ability.

Blue at Stage 1 – Idle Blue at Stage 1 – Producing Pollen Blue at Stage 1 – Ready to Release Pollen Blue at Stage 2 – Idle Blue at Stage 2 – Producing Pollen Blue at Stage 2 – Ready to Release Pollen Blue at Stage 3 – Idle Blue at Stage 3 – Producing Pollen Blue at Stage 3 – Ready to Release Pollen Blue at Stage 4 – Idle Blue at Stage 4 – Producing Pollen Blue at Stage 4 – Ready to Release Pollen Blue at Stage 5 – Idle Blue at Stage 5 Pop Notification Blue at Stage 5 – Producing Pollen Blue at Stage 5 – Ready to Release Pollen 1/16	Pink at Stage 1 – Idle Pink at Stage 1 – Producing Pollen Pink at Stage 1 – Ready to Release Pollen Pink at Stage 2 – Idle Pink at Stage 2 – Producing Pollen Pink at Stage 2 – Ready to Release Pollen Pink at Stage 3 – Idle Pink at Stage 3 – Producing Pollen Pink at Stage 3 – Ready to Release Pollen Pink at Stage 4 – Idle Pink at Stage 4 – Producing Pollen Pink at Stage 4 – Ready to Release Pollen Pink at Stage 5 – Idle Pink at Stage 5 – Pop Notification Pink at Stage 5 – Producing Pollen Pink at Stage 5 – Ready to Release Pollen 1/16
Red at Stage 1 – Idle Red at Stage 1 – Producing Pollen Red at Stage 1 – Ready to Release Pollen Red at Stage 2 – Idle Red at Stage 2 – Producing Pollen Red at Stage 2 – Ready to Release Pollen Red at Stage 3 – Idle Red at Stage 3 – Producing Pollen Red at Stage 3 – Ready to Release Pollen Red at Stage 4 – Idle Red at Stage 4 – Producing Pollen Red at Stage 4 – Ready to Release Pollen Red at Stage 5 – Idle Red at Stage 5 – Pop Notification Red at Stage 5 – Producing Pollen Red at Stage 5 – Ready to Release Pollen 1/16	Yellow at Stage 1 – Idle Yellow at Stage 1 – Producing Pollen Yellow at Stage 1 – Ready to Release Pollen Yellow at Stage 2 – Idle Yellow at Stage 2 – Producing Pollen Yellow at Stage 2 – Ready to Release Pollen Yellow at Stage 3 – Idle Yellow at Stage 3 – Producing Pollen Yellow at Stage 3 – Ready to Release Pollen Yellow at Stage 4 – Idle Yellow at Stage 4 – Producing Pollen Yellow at Stage 4 – Ready to Release Pollen Yellow at Stage 5 – Idle Yellow at Stage 5 – Pop Notification Yellow at Stage 5 – Producing Pollen Yellow at Stage 5 – Ready to Release Pollen 1/16
Orange at Stage 5 – Idle Orange at Stage 5 – Producing Pollen Orange at Stage 5 – Ready to Release Pollen 1/3

Special Abilities

In addition to the Buff-Tailed Bumblebee's ability to double the amount of pollen, also some butterflies can influence Pollen Flowers using their Special Ability:

Half the Cost of a Pollen Flower's Next Shift every two days

• Red Lacewing
• Black Jezebel
• Long-Tailed Skipper
• Great Blue Hairstreak
• Splendid Dotted Border
• Antea Clearwing
• Laglaize's Swallowtail
• African Clouded Yellow
• Female Cloudless Sulphur

Hurry a Pollen Flower every 24 hours

• Crowned Hairstreak
• Yellow Dotted Border
• Hewitson's Agrias
• Palamedes Swallowtail
• Natewa Swallowtail

Change the Color of a Pollen Flower every 5 days

• Large Fairy Hairstreak (Upgraded 2 days)
• Great Stripestreak (Upgraded 2 days)
• Flame-bordered Emperor (Upgraded 24 hours)
• Chinese Windmill (Upgraded 24 hours)
• Japanese Emperor (Every 12 hours)

Double amount of pollen produced by a flower

• Peacock Pansy
• Pearl Owl

Related Goals

• Speedy Flower: Hurry a pollen flower (Reward: 2)
• Growing Up: Upgrade 2 Pollen Flowers (Reward: Twig )
• Growing Up II: Fully Upgrade a Pollen Flower (Reward: 100% Epic)
• Shift Worker: Set 20 Flower shifts (Reward: 20)
• Shift Worker II: Set 250 Flower shifts (Reward: 1,000)
• Shift Worker III: Set 1,000 Flower shifts (Reward: 10,000)
• Hayfever: Collect 100 Pollen (Reward: 25)
• Hayfever II: Collect 1,000 Pollen (Reward: 10,000)
• Hayfever III: Collect 2,500 Pollen (Reward: 10,000)
• Long-Haul: Set a 20 hour shift (Reward: 2)
• Industrial Pollen: Flower shifts total 1 month (Reward: 10)

Notes

• When fusing butterflies together, you can save pollen by only leveling up one of the two butterflies you plan to fuse. Fusing two butterflies that are both maxed out at level one will produce a butterfly at level one that can reach level two. Fusing two butterflies that can only reach level one, but are at level zero will produce a butterfly that can reach level two that is at level zero. Fusing one level zero butterfly with a level one (assuming both only have the potential to reach level one) will produce a butterfly that is at level one and can reach level two. Since fusing two butterflies will create a butterfly with a higher potential but the same level as the better of the two that were fused, you should only level up your best butterfly of each species when fusing.
• The pollen cap was introduced with Update 1.85 on 7^th May 2014 to reduce lags in the game.
• Since the introduction of the Hairstreak Set 27^th November 2014 it's possible to change Pollen Flower colour by using butterflies' Special Abilities.
• Since January 2017 Pollen Flowers can be orange, too.