Editing Thorny flower

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|image=[[File:SMG Asset Model Prickly Thorn Plant.png|200px]]<br>Model of a prickly plant from ''Super Mario Galaxy''

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])

|variants=[[Giant prickly plant]]

|comparable=[[Cactus]]

'''Thorny flowers''',<ref>"''Get as many Goombas to the finish line as possible without leading them into the '''thorny flowers'''.''" – Controls for [[Goomba to Maneuver|Tour and Simple]] in ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'' (British English version)</ref> also described as '''spiky things''',<ref>"''Apparently those <span style="color:blue;">spiky things</span> just HATE coconuts! <span style="color:red;">Shake</span> to <span style="color:red;">spin and smack them with coconuts!</span>''" – Text from a Purple Toad in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''</ref> '''prickly plants''',<ref>Black, Fletcher. ''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Pages 43, 48, 50, 53, 170, 171, 175, 177, 178, 202, 207, 244, 303.</ref> '''plants''',<ref>Black, Fletcher. ''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Pages 48, 50, 53, 170, 202.</ref> '''prickly flowers''',<ref>Black, Fletcher. ''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 302.</ref> '''spikes''',<ref>Browne, Catherine. ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Pages 112, 113, 114, 118.</ref> and '''{{wp|thistle}}s''',<ref>von Esmarch, Nick. ''Super Mario 3D Land'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 187.</ref> are red plants that serve as obstacles in several games of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]]. They are first seen in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.

[[File:SMG Tropic Planets.png|thumb|200px|left|Prickly plants in the [[Good Egg Galaxy]]]]

[[File:SMG2 Yoshi Star Road.png|thumb|Mario near some prickly plants in the [[Yoshi Star Galaxy]]]]

In ''Super Mario Galaxy'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', prickly plants damage [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] when touched, and the only way to destroy them is by attacking them with a [[rubbery bulb]], [[spin]]ning a [[coconut]] into them, having [[Yoshi]] eat them, or rolling into them in [[Rock Mario|Rock form]].

There are three types: the standard variant, a [[Giant prickly plant|larger variant]], and a floating variant. The larger variants, after being destroyed by a coconut, reveal a [[Sling Star]] or [[Launch Star]] leading to another planet. The floating variants serve as obstacles in various areas, and they are more common in certain galaxies, such as the [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]], the [[Yoshi Star Galaxy]], and [[Tall Trunk Galaxy]].

When touched by the [[Co-Star Luma]], prickly plants retract their spikes, allowing Mario or Luigi to pass over them safely without needing to destroy them.

[[File:SpikyPlant3DLand.png|100px|thumb|A thistle in ''Super Mario 3D Land'']]

Thistles later appear in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', being first encountered in [[World 4-1 (Super Mario 3D Land)|World 4-1]]. As of this game, their thorns are stubbier and are arranged in a globe, instead of being grown from the plant's calyx like in the previous games; their leaves also continuously rotate around their stems. They can be destroyed with projectiles (such as the [[Fire Mario|Fire form]]'s [[fireball]]s), a tail whip in [[Tanooki Mario|Tanooki form]], by landing on them in [[Statue Mario|Statue form]], or by touching them while [[Invincible Mario|invincible]].

In ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'', thorny flowers make an appearance in the minigame [[Goomba to Maneuver]], scattered on the path that the player needs to follow. The player needs to maneuver a line of [[Goomba]]s between them. Goombas that touch a thorny flower are flung away, reducing the number of Goombas in the line. Thorny flowers appear in both normal and big sizes, with bigger ones becoming more common as the minigame progresses.

 

 

===Names in other languages===

|Jap=トゲ草<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', pages 136 and 170.</ref> <small>(''Super Mario Galaxy'' and ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'')</small>

|Jap2=トゲ植物<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario 3D Land'' section, page 185.</ref> <small>(''Super Mario 3D Land'')</small>

|Jap2R=Toge Shokubutsu

|Jap2M=Thorn Plant

|Ita=Pianta ago<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]'', pagg. 136 and 170</ref><br>Spine rosse (by [[Whittle]])

|Fre=Herbes épineuses<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]'', page 136 and 170</ref>

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