Volcano Lotus
- "Fire Plant" redirects here. For the Piranha Plants that can spit fire, see Fire Piranha Plant. For the power-up, see Fire Flower.
| Volcano Lotus | |||
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 Artwork from Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario World (1990) | ||
| Latest appearance | Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (Caves & Cliffs: Part I) (2021) | ||
| Variant of | Lava Lotus | ||
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Volcano Lotuses, also known as Volcano Plants, are enemies introduced in Super Mario World. They are a terrestrial variant of Lava Lotus[1] that shoots out fireballs.
History[edit]
Super Mario World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2[edit]
Volcano Lotuses appear in Super Mario World and Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2. They are stationary enemies that periodically spew four small fireballs into the air at a diagonal angle, which proceed to slowly float down on the surrounding area after reaching their highest point. While invulnerable to Fire Mario's fireballs, Volcano Lotuses can be defeated by whirling Mario's (or Luigi's) Cape next to them, crushing them with a Body Press as Caped Mario, or eating them with a Yoshi. Spin-jumping on them or stepping on them while riding a Yoshi does not harm them, but it makes the player bounce off without taking damage.
The player can encounter Volcano Lotuses in the courses Donut Plains 1, Tubular, and Groovy.
Super Mario World (television series)[edit]
A Volcano Lotus, referred to as a Fire Plant, appears in the episode "Send in the Clown" of the Super Mario World television series. It produces the fireballs that Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Princess Toadstool use in a tennis game (in lieu of actual tennis balls).
Super Princess Peach[edit]
Volcano Plants appear in Super Princess Peach. They also received a Calm counterpart, the C. V. Plant.
Minecraft[edit]
In the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack in Minecraft, Spore Blossoms are replaced with Volcano Lotuses.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| ポンキー (JP) / Volcano Lotus (EN) | |||
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| フラワー族 | Tribe | Flower clan | |
| 明るい | Disposition | Bright | |
| ワールド | Game appearances | World | |
| 陸に上がったスイチューか？ ポンキーはマリオ3のスイチューカ（P91）にそっくりのフラワー族。一定リズムで火の玉を4方向へ吹き出してくる。あわてずに、マントかファイアで倒してしまおう。[2] |
A Lava Lotus on land? Volcano Lotus is a flower creature that looks exactly like the Lava Lotus (p. 91) from Mario 3. Volcano Lotus spews fireballs in four directions at a steady rhythm. Don't panic, use a Cape or fire to defeat them. | ||
Super Princess Peach[edit]
| Volcano Plant | |||
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| Vibe | Vibeless | Levels | Ladida Plains 1-3 Hoo's Wood 2-4 Hoo's Wood 2-7 Wavy Beach 5-2 |
| Glossary number | 34 | Glossary entry | Spits at you from its spot on the ground. Look out! |
Gallery[edit]
Sprite from Super Mario World
Sprite from Super Mario World
Screenshot from Super Mario World
Super Mario World (television series)
A size chart for a 1996 Nintendo Character Manual
Sprite from Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Sprite from Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Sprite from Super Princess Peach
Naming[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The English name "Volcano Lotus" appears in the ending of the original Super Mario World and has been the only English name applied to the enemy. The use of "lotus" is likely in reference to Lava Lotus, its underwater relative from Super Mario Bros. 3. The enemy is one of several not mentioned in the instruction booklet released with the game. However, in the description for Jumping Piranha Plant, it is asserted to be, "a tropical plant version of the Volcano Plant!"[3] The Japanese equivalency for this statement makes no mention of a "Volcano Plant," instead stating it is the tropical variant of normal Piranha Plants,[4] and it is not apparent if the English name used is in reference to the Volcano Lotus enemy specifically. However, other European localizations of the booklet make the same type of assertion present in the English one, and localizations of subsequent media that features Volcano Lotuses have used the same names used in those assertions.
The Japanese name for Volcano Lotus,「ポンキー」(Ponkī), is shared with Panser, a flower enemy from Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. They have comparable means of attack and the 1994 character guidebook Super Mario Bros. Daizukan recognizes them as the same enemy.[5] However, Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten, a similar guidebook published the same year, asserts that they are distinct enemies.[6] The English names used on the pages for Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario World on Mario Portal apply the distinctive names of "Panser" and "Volcano Lotus" despite erroneously applying the same English name to two different enemies that incidentally share the same Japanese name on other pages (e.g., the bee enemy Bunbun is listed referred to as "Boom Boom" on Mario Portal).
Names in other languages[edit]
The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ポンキー[7][8][9] Ponkī |
From「ポン」(pon), an onomatopoeia for popping out something, and suffix -ky; shared with Panser and officially romanized as "Ponkey" | |
| Albanian | Bimë Zjarri[10] | Fire Plant | |
| Arabic | نبات النار[11] Nbat Alnar |
Fire Plant | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 喷射花[12] Pēnshè Huā |
Spurting Flower; shared with Panser | |
| Croatian | Oganj Bilja[13] | Fire Plant | |
| Dutch | Vulkaanplant[14]:53 | Volcano Plant | |
| French | Plante Volcano[14]:23[15] | Volcano plant | |
| Plante de Feu[16] | Fire Plant | Super Mario World (television series) | |
| Lotus Vulcan[17] | Volcano Lotus | Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 | |
| Plante Volcan[18] | Volcano Plant | Super Princess Peach | |
| German | Vulkan-Pflanze[19][20] | Volcano Plant | |
| Vulcan-Pflanze[21] | Super Mario World | ||
| Feuerpflanze[22] | Fireplant | Super Mario World (television series) | |
| Greek | Πυροσβεστική Μονάδα[23] Pyrosvestikí Monáda |
Fire Plant | |
| Italian | Pianta Vulcano[24][25] | Volcano Plant | |
| Pianta di Fuoco[26] | Fire Plant | Super Mario World (television series) | |
| Loto Vulcano[27] | Volcano Lotus | Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 | |
| Polish | Roślina Ognia[28] | Fire Plant | |
| Portuguese | Planta Volcano[29] | Volcano Plant | |
| Planta de Fogo[30] | Fire Plant | Super Mario World (television series) | |
| Romanian | Plantă de foc[31] | Fire plant | |
| Spanish | Magmarita[32] | From magma and margarita ("daisy") | |
| Volcano Lotus[33] | - | Super Mario World | |
| Planta de Fuego[34] | Fire Plant | Super Mario World (television series) |
References[edit]
- ^ 「マリオ3に出てきた水中花の地上バージョン。火の玉を4つ吐き出して一休み。このくり返し。マントではじき飛ばすのが一番楽だ。」 ("An aboveground version of Mario 3's Suichūka. It spits out 4 fireballs then takes five. This repeats. It is easiest to flick it away with the Cape.") – December 10, 1992. 「任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオワールド」 (Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook – Super Mario World). Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-104117-5. Page 27.
- ^ November 20, 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 210. Retrieved from Imgur.
- ^ 1991. Super Mario World Instruction Booklet (PDF). Redmond: Nintendo of America. Page 23.
- ^ 1990. 『Super Mario World 取扱説明書』 (PDF). Kyoto: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese). Page 25.
- ^ 1994. 『スーパーマリオ大図鑑』. Tokyo: Kodansha. ISBN 4062590050. Page 50.
- ^ Kiire, Kyoko (Shogakukan), Koichi Watanabe, Hiroaki Nagata, Masatoshi Watanabe, Haruko Ueki (Supersonic), and Toru Mori, editors (1994). 『パーフェクト
版 マリオキャラクター大事典 』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 209, 210. - ^ Kagawa, Ryo (APE/Shigesato Itoi), Koichi Toda (100 Percent), Masaki Kuramochi (100 Percent), Shigeo Tanabe, Naomaru Asao, and Ryuji Osawa, editors (1991). "UNIT 2 CHARACTER" in『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオワールド』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-104117-5. Page 27.
- ^ Okamoto, Daisuke, and Norio Ando (STF) (2006). 『スーパー プリンセスピーチ任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-106268-7. Page 27.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario World" in『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 56.
- ^ Bota e Super Marios - Episoda 3 | Të shfaqen kllounët (Dublimi Shqip, Çufo)
- ^ سوبر ماريو - سبيس تون
- ^ In-game name from the ending of the iQue version of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2. (Archived 28 Aug. 2013 via Baidu Teiba by 无敌阿尔宙斯.)
- ^ Super Mario World - Sezona 1 / Ep. 3. YouTube.
- ^ Jump up to: a b 1992. Super Mario World mode d'emploi / Handleiding. Nederland, Brussels: Nintendo (French, Dutch).
- ^ Super Mario: Manga Adventures, Volume 9. Page 21.
- ^ Super Mario World 003 Que le spectacle commence (1:43). YouTube (French). Retrieved September 6, 2024.
- ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (French). (Archived 19 Nov. 2010 via YouTube by Diddy64wii.)
- ^ Glossaire (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (French). (Archived via JeuxVideo by avav.)
- ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (German). (Archived 15 Oct. 2011 via YouTube by Spendem.)
- ^ Glossar (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). (Archived via YouTube by PonyPlays2014.)
- ^ Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors (1993). Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 20.
- ^ Super Mario World Staffel 1 Folge 3 HD Deutsch. Dailymotion.
- ^ Super Mario World - Episode 3 - Send in the Clown Greek Audio
- ^ 1992. Super Mario World Libretto di Intruzioni. Großostheim: Nintendo (Italian). Page 23.
- ^ Glossario (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). (Archived via Mario's Castle.)
- ^ Le avventure di Super Mario - Episodio 3 - Manda dentro il clown (0:18). YouTube (Italian). Retrieved September 6, 2024.
- ^ Andrea Minini Saldini (June 2002). Nintendo La Rivista Ufficiale Numero 1. Milan: Future Media Italy SpA (Italian). Page 82.
- ^ Kapitan N i nowe przygody braci Mario. Odc. 3 - Dawajcie klauna/Powrót do Straszylwanii
- ^ 1991. Super Mario World Manual de Instruções. Redmond: Nintendo of America (Brazilian Portuguese). Page 23.
- ^ Super Mario World - Que Venha o Palhaço (Dublado). YouTube (Portuguese). Retrieved September 6, 2024.[timestamp needed]
- ^ May 20, 2015. "Send in the Clown", dubbed in Romanian by KidsCo (00:34). Odnoklassniki (OK.ru) (Romanian). Retrieved September 6, 2024.
- ^ Glosario (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (European Spanish).
- ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (European Spanish). (Archived 12 Sept. 2021 via YouTube by El Tiempo Es Ahora.)
- ^ Súper Mario world (Koopa circo). YouTube (Spanish). Retrieved September 6, 2024.
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