Blooming Heart

Blooming Heart is a special-edition plant for Valenbrainz 2016 in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It lobs hearts that deal more damage overtime.

Origins
It is based on the lamprocapnos, or the bleeding heart.

Almanac entry
SUN COST: 150 DAMAGE: Heavy RANGE: Lobbed RECHARGE: Fast

Blooming Hearts lob projectiles that infatuate zombies, causing increasing damage the more that hit.

SPECIAL: damage increases across multiple Blooming Hearts.

Blooming Heart loves zombies. She gets guff from her fellow plants over it, but she stands firm. She's into zombies and makes no apologies about it.

Plant Food upgrade
When fed with Plant Food, Blooming Heart will throw big projectiles at every zombie on screen, dealing a huge amount of damage to them.

Strategies
Blooming Heart draws great advantage in dealing splash damage to groups of zombies, especially when fed with Plant Food. It is best used if combined with Shrinking Violets so when all zombies are shrunk, the Blooming Hearts will deal very heavy damage to shrunken zombies.

It is a poor idea to use it against Jester Zombies, since Jester Zombies will deflect their projectile.

Trivia

 * Blooming Heart has a limit of how much damage it deals, which is 4.5 normal damage shots.
 * Blooming Heart and Sap-fling are the only plants that have catapulting appendages but do not have the suffix "-pult."
 * Blooming Heart's idle animation involves it winking and blowing a flying kiss to its front, presumably at the zombies (based on the almanac).
 * According to Blooming Heart's sprites, there are unused fire sprites and pepper silhouettes (which may indicate that, aside from Sap-fling, Blooming Heart could also have been based on Pepper-pult).
 * Blooming Heart, in the 4.4.1 update, has a glitch that can make a zombie die instantly, or makes them immune to damage (they can only die by instant-kills, Power Toss, and the like). This happens completely randomly.
 * Blooming Heart can sometimes start with maximum damage when planted. It is unknown if this a bug because its damage is supposed to increase with each projectile.
 * Blooming Heart's heart effect grows as it does more damage, with big hearts at its maximum damage.