Blooming Heart

When he sees zombies, he goes SPLAT!

This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently not available.

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Blooming Heart (PvZH).

Blooming Heart
Blooming Hearts lob projectiles that infatuate zombies, causing increasing damage the more they hit.
Statistics
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	40 damage
Range	Lobbed
Family	Ail-mint
Plant Food effect	Throw large projectiles at every zombie, dealing massive damage.
Special	Damage increases across multiple Blooming Hearts
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	150
Recharge	5 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Damage	40 damage
Attack Rate	2.9 seconds
Range	Whole Lane to the Right
Area	Single Target
Class	Ranged
Quality	Rare
Tags	Damage, catapult
Plant features	Red plant, full of love, short
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(deflects projectiles) (blocks projectiles)
Unlocked	150 seed packets
Unlocked (China)	Collecting 10 Blooming Heart Puzzle Pieces, completing Modern Day - Day 10 (Chinese version)
Costumes
Code name	bloominghearts
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.

Blooming Heart is a seed-obtained premium lobber plant that was released for Valenbrainz 2016 in the 4.4.1 update in Plants vs. Zombies 2 for $6.99.

She lobs hearts every 2.85 - 3 seconds that deal 40 damage, after that damage dealt by all Blooming Hearts increases by 10 damage each time, up to 5 times. The maximum damage she can deal is 90 damage.

Origins

She is based on the bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis), a species of flowering plant in the poppy family. Her name is a portmanteau of "bloom", the name for one or more flowers on a plant; and "bleeding heart", the plant she is based on.

The bloom could refer to how her damage 'blooms' with every hit, meaning that every hit she does is stronger than the last. The heart in her name refers to the fact that she lobs hearts at zombies.

About

Blooming Heart returned in Valenbrainz 2017. Seed packets for her were also sold in the store for real money. The player could buy the huge bundle, including Blooming Heart and 120 seed packets, allowing this plant to reach level 4 immediately.

During Valenbrainz 2018, she returned again along with the Hot Date.

She became a seed-obtained plant in the 7.8.1 update, requiring 150 seed packets to unlock. She appeared in the store and Almanac on January 28, 2020.

She is tied to Blooming Heart's Sociable Season which lasted from February 4 to March 1, 2020.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Blooming Heart
	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 RANGE Lobbed Ail-mint Plant Food: Throw large projectiles at every zombie, dealing massive damage. Blooming Hearts lob projectiles that infatuate zombies, causing increasing damage the more that hit. 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.

Blooming Heart

SUN COST 150 RECHARGE 5 TOUGHNESS 300 DAMAGE 40 RANGE Lobbed Ail-mint Plant Food: Throw large projectiles at every zombie, dealing massive damage. Blooming Hearts lob projectiles that infatuate zombies, causing increasing damage the more that hit. 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.

Chinese version  (China only)

爱心印记可以叠加伤害 特点：爱心印记可以叠加伤害 植物特征：红色植物，充满爱心，矮个子 铃儿草投手喜欢僵尸。她从她的伙伴那里得到了一些谣言，但她立场坚定。她喜欢僵尸，不为此道歉。 In English: Heart imprints stack damage. Special: Heart imprints can stack damage Plant feature: red plant, full of love, short Blooming Heart likes zombies. She received some rumors from her pals, but she has a firm stand. She likes zombies, and will not make apologies about it.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

Plant Food ability

When fed with Plant Food, Blooming Heart will throw big projectiles at every zombie (5 zombies in the Chinese version) on screen, dealing 200 damage initially (if the zombie does not hurt by Blooming Heart's normal attack yet, otherwise the initial Plant Food attack damage increases by 20 per normal attack), and increases by 40 damage each time they hurt the same zombie.

The maximum damage she can deal is 300 damage. Also, whenever a zombie is hurt by Blooming Hearts' Plant Food effect, it bears 20 more damage when hurt through normal attack until reaching the maximum damage 90.

Ail-mint effect

When boosted by Ail-mint, Blooming Heart will receive an additional 120 damage to her initial attacks.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge (Fast)	Toughness (Typical)	Damage (Heavy)	Projectile Velocity	Range
1	0	0	150	5 seconds	300 damage	40 damage	Normal	Lobbed
2	10	1,000			350 damage	50 damage
3	25	2,500		4.5 seconds	400 damage	60 damage	+ 1.3x
4	50	5,000			450 damage	70 damage
5	100	10,000	125		550 damage	80 damage
6	200	20,000		4 seconds	600 damage	90 damage
7	400	30,000			650 damage	100 damage	+ 1.6x
8	800	50,000		3.5 seconds	700 damage	110 damage
9	1,200	75,000			800 damage	120 damage
10	1,600	100,000	100	3 seconds	900 damage

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Absolutely Infatuated 痴心绝对	50% chance to create a priority mark that forces the plant to target that specific zombie. 铃儿草的攻击有50%的概率形成会使铃儿草优先攻击该僵尸的印记。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Blooming Heart gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	The Eternity of Love 爱之永恒	100% chance to create a priority mark that forces the plant to target that specific zombie. 铃儿草的攻击必然形成会使铃儿草优先攻击该僵户[sic]的印记。
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Blooming Heart gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Blooming Heart may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Blooming Heart gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Blooming Heart draws great advantage in dealing large amounts of damage to strong zombies, and deals heavy splash damage when fed with Plant Food. She is well used in tandem with Shrinking Violet, as shrunken zombies are weaker and will take much more damage when Blooming Heart is used. She also works well with Imp Pear as when other zombies are turned into Imps, she can instantly kill them in just a few shots.

In Far Future, Blooming Heart can become a devastating plant, especially when supported by Bowling Bulbs or area-of-effect plants such as Laser Beans and Fume-shrooms. Since there a lot of strong zombies present, she can easily increase the amount of damage done to Robo Cone Zombies, Disco-tron 3000 and Mecha Football Zombies.

However, take note that Blooming Heart's regular projectile does not deal splash damage. Thus, she is not a very ideal choice in Endless Zones, as when there are large hordes of zombies, Blooming Heart will not be able to handle all of them.

A group of Blooming Heart attacking on the Power Tiles of Tile Turnip when being fed with Plant Food

Blooming Heart is not a good choice in Dark Ages, as Jester Zombies will deflect her projectiles, Wizard Zombies will turn her into sheep before she manages to deal heavy damage, and Zombie Kings will keep turning Peasant Zombies into Knight Zombies, thus nullifying Blooming Heart's increased damage.

Blooming Heart should also be avoided in Lost City, even though they can damage Excavator Zombies, as Parasol Zombies can also appear with the former in large amounts of groups, which can overwhelm Blooming Heart. Hence, area-of-effect plants should be used instead.

A great advantage is to use two or three Plant Food in large hordes for the effect of hearts growing in zombies for more damage. This can easily occur using Tile Turnip.

Gallery

Blooming Heart has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Blooming Heart
Simplified Chinese	铃儿草投手	lit. "Bleeding Heart Lobber"
French	Cœur en fleur
German	Blühendes Herz
Italian	Cuore in fiore
Brazilian Portuguese	Flor-coração
Spanish	Corazón floreciente

Trivia

• She, Sap-fling, Winter Melon, Dusk Lobber and Stickybomb Rice are the only plants that have catapulting appendages but do not have the suffix "-pult."
• Her idle animation involves her winking and blowing a flying kiss to her front, presumably at the zombies (based on her Almanac entry).
• She is the second plant to have a positive opinion on zombies, the first being Hypno-shroom.
• According to her sprites, there are unused fire sprites and pepper silhouettes (which may indicate that, aside from Sap-fling, Blooming Heart may also have been based on Pepper-pult).
• In the 4.4.1 update, Blooming Heart had a bug which made her make the zombies invincible to any damage, even lawn mowers.
  • However, this bug has been fixed since the 4.6.1 update.
• She is the first premium plant to become a plant obtainable with seed packets.
  • Any seed packets obtained for Blooming Heart prior to that could be used to unlock her.
• Despite being a lobbed-shot plant, Blooming Heart is not in Arma-mint Famliy.
• Despite not having a poison-based attack, Blooming Heart is in Ail-mint Family, possibly due to containing traces of toxin in real life.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• In the 1.8.0 update, she, along with Cactus, made a cameo appearance in an advertisement before being officially released.
• She, Caulipower, Gold Bloom, and Aloe are the only special-edition premium plants from international version to be world-obtained plants in Chinese version.
  • She is also the second premium plant from international version to be obtained by beating a level. The first is Fire Peashooter.

See also

• Lobbed shots

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