Primal Sunflower

For the modern counterpart, see Sunflower.

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Primal Sunflower.

Primal Sunflower is the fourth plant obtained in Jurassic Marsh. She is the primal version of Sunflower. She produces 75 sun instead of 50. A slight downside to that is she also costs 25 more sun than her modern counterpart.

Origins

Like her modern counterpart, Primal Sunflower's design is based on the Helianthus annuus, known as the common sunflower.

Almanac entry

Primal Sunflower	SUN COST 75 RECHARGE Fast SUN COST: 75 RECHARGE: Fast TOUGHNESS Typical SUN PRODUCTION Large TOUGHNESS: Typical SUN PRODUCTION: Large Primal Sunflowers pop out large suns instead of regular ones. Sun Production: large suns Primal Sunflower is new to all this sun-giving business, so be patient with her. She's an early adopter of the all-you-can-stuff-yourself buffet style of sun production.

Primal Sunflower

		SUN COST 75			RECHARGE Fast

SUN COST: 75
RECHARGE: Fast

		TOUGHNESS Typical			SUN PRODUCTION Large

TOUGHNESS: Typical
SUN PRODUCTION: Large

Primal Sunflowers pop out large suns instead of regular ones.

Sun Production: large suns

Primal Sunflower is new to all this sun-giving business, so be patient with her. She's an early adopter of the all-you-can-stuff-yourself buffet style of sun production.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Primal Sunflower generates three big suns worth 225 sun in total. The amount of sun produced is identical to Sun-shroom's Plant Food ability.

Enlighten-mint effect

When boosted by Enlighten-mint, Primal Sunflower's sun production rate will increase to every five seconds, and it will produce an additional 75 sun.

Level upgrades

Level upgrades  (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Primal Sun	May produce an extra tiny sun.
	Combat Training	Primal Sunflower gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Primal Battle Song	Chance to produce extra sun has been increased.
	Cell Activation	Primal Sunflower gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken	Primal Sunflower may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power	Primal Sunflower gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Sun Filling	Whenever she produces sun, three of her petals will light up. When all of her petals are glowing with that light, she produces 225 sun at once.
	Fighting Power	Primal Sunflower gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Costumed  (China only)

Primal Sunflower now has a chance to generate one big gold coin as well.

Strategies

Primal Sunflower serves the middle ground between Sunflower and Twin Sunflower, functioning identically to a fully grown Sun-shroom both in sun production and Plant Food ability. Therefore, the choice between Primal Sunflower and Sun-shroom is entirely up to the player. While the former has full production capability from the start but costs more to build, the latter is more disposable and can be planted in larger amounts early on, but takes a long period of time to grow. However,in the level which tells the player "No spend more X suns", bringing in the Sun-Shroom is better.

For Endless Zones, the player can bring Primal Sunflower along so that the sun production would be faster and would be more conserving to set their defenses up quicker. This is crucial in high-cost setups.

Gallery

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Trivia

• Before the 4.4.1 update, she could be used in almost all Last Stand and Sun Bombs levels, with the exception of the levels in Jurassic Marsh.
  • The glitch also happened to Toadstool, Stallia, and Sunflower Singer, but it has been fixed.
  • Primal Sunflower could also have been used on Dark Ages - Night 14, which disallows the use of all sun-producing plants except her and Sun Bean.
• In the 4.3 update, there was an error in the Almanac showing this plant's recharge as Mediocre; this was fixed in the 4.4 update.
• In her Spanish and Portuguese Almanac entry, Primal Sunflower is referred to as a male.
• Her lizard hat costume resembles Lumpy's appearrance in the pilot episode from the hit animated Internet show Happy Tree Friends..

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• She can be used in Sky City - Day 24, even though it is a Last Stand level.

See also

• Sun
• Sunflower
• Sun-shroom
• Twin Sunflower