Cactus Flower

Cactus Flower

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	No

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A cactus flower is a type of flower that grows from cacti. It can be placed on any solid top surface or crafted into pink dye.

Obtaining

Breaking

Cactus flowers break instantly when mined by hand or any item. A cactus flower will always drop itself when mined by a player.

Block	Cactus Flower
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Cactus flowers can generate in deserts, badlands, eroded badlands and wooded badlands growing on cactus blocks. Naturally generated cacti have a 25% chance to have a cactus flower on top.

Post generation

A cactus flower has a chance of growing on cactus blocks. If a cactus is one or two blocks high the flower has a 10% chance to grow instead of the cactus getting higher. If a cactus is three blocks high the flower has a 25% chance to grow. A cactus flower can only grow if there are no blocks in any cardinal directly adjacent to it. A cactus with a cactus flower can no longer grow.

Automatic harvesting

The optimal harvest interval for automatic cactus flower farms is 34 minutes and 6 seconds.

Usage

Placement

Cactus flowers can be placed on cactus blocks, farmland, or any block which provides center support at the top of the block. A placed cactus flower might be used as a decorative block. Cactus flowers cannot be placed in flower pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Pink Dye	Cactus Flower

Feeding

Bees follow players holding a cactus flower in their hand within 6 blocks. Feeding a cactus flower to an adult bee causes it to enter love mode. Two adult bees in love mode will always breed and produce offspring. When fed to a baby bee, it will slightly speed up its growth into an adult bee.

Composting

Using cactus flowers on a composter has a 30% chance to raise the compost level by 1. A stack of cactus flowers yields an average of 2.74 bone meal.

Pollination

A bee might try to pollinate a cactus flower and collect pollens from it, resulting in the production of either honey or honeycombs at its bee nest. Bees might die this way due to the cactus that often accompanies a cactus flower, which might prick some bees to death during pollination, unless the cactus flower was manually placed by the player on a surface other than cactus.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e cactus_flower sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.cactus_flower.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.cactus_flower.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e cactus_flower sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.cactus_flower	?	?
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.cactus_flower	?	?

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	[hide]Translation key
Cactus Flower	cactus_flower	Block & Item	enderman_holdable bee_attractive flowers wall_post_override	block.minecraft.cactus_flower

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Cactus Flower	cactus_flower	1285	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -1030)	tile.cactus_flower.name

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.21.5			25w06a				Added cactus flowers.
			25w10a				Can now be placed on farmland.
							Can now be picked up and carried by endermen.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.70.22				Added cactus flowers.
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.23				All features behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cactus Flower" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

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  Some cactus flowers.

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  Cactus flowers in a desert.

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  Cactus flower in front of a house.