Editing Thorny flower

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:SMG Asset Model Prickly Thorn Plant.png|200px]]<br>Model of a prickly plant from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|variants=[[Giant prickly plant]]
|comparable=[[Bramble]]<br>[[Cactus]]
}}
{{quote|{{color|red|Sharp red things}}. No touch!|Whittle|Super Mario Galaxy 2}}
'''Thorny flowers''',<ref>{{cite|quote=Get as many Goombas to the finish line as possible without leading them into the '''thorny flowers'''.|author=Controls for [[Goomba to Maneuver|Tour and Simple]]|title= ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]''|publisher=Nintendo|language=en-gb}}</ref> also described as '''spiky things''',<ref>{{cite|quote=Apparently those {{color|blue|spiky things}} just HATE coconuts! {{color|red|Shake}} to {{color|red|spin and smack them with coconuts!}}|author=Purple Toad|title=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''}}</ref> '''prickly plants''',<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|title=''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=43, 48, 50, 53, 170, 171, 175, 177, 178, 202, 207, 244, 303|date=November 9, 2007|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-7615-5643-5}}</ref> '''plants''',<ref>{{cite|author=Black|title=''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=48, 50, 53, 170, 202}}</ref> '''prickly flowers''',<ref>{{cite|author=Black|title=''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=302}}</ref> '''spikes''',<ref>{{cite|author=Browne, Catherine|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=Random House Inc|date=May 23, 2010|page=112-114, 118|isbn=978-0-30746-907-6}}</ref> and '''{{wp|thistle}}s''',<ref>{{cite|author=von Esmarch, Nick|title=''Super Mario 3D Land'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=187|publisher=Prima Games|date=November 13, 2011|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-307-89386-4}}</ref> are obstacles first appearing in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. They are red spiked plants.

==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
[[File:SMG Tropic Planets.png|thumb|200px|Prickly plants in the [[Good Egg Galaxy]] in ''Super Mario Galaxy'']]
In ''Super Mario Galaxy'', prickly plants damage [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] when touched, and the only way to destroy them is by attacking them with a [[rubbery bulb]] or [[spin]]ning a [[coconut]] into them. There are three types: the standard variant, a [[Giant prickly plant|larger variant]], and another large version that can fly with spinning leaves. The grounded 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 when [[fluff (object)|Floaty Fluff]] is used.

=====Appearances=====
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'''Note:''' [[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png]] marks missions where prickly plants are absent.
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|-style="color:white;background:red"
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|-style="color:white;background:red"
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!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[Terrace (Super Mario Galaxy)|Terrace]]
|[[Good Egg Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Dino Piranha (mission)]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=A Snack of Cosmic Proportions]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=King Kaliente's Battle Fleet]][[File:Smg icon speedycomet.png|link=Dino Piranha Speed Run]][[File:Smg icon purplecomet.png|link=Purple Coin Omelet]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Luigi on the Roof]]
|-
|[[Bedroom (Super Mario Galaxy)|Bedroom]]
|[[Gusty Garden Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Bunnies in the Wind]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Gusty Garden's Gravity Scramble]][[File:Smg icon daredevilcomet.png|link=Major Burrows's Daredevil Run]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coins on the Puzzle Cube]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Golden Chomp]]
|-
|[[Engine Room]]
|[[Toy Time Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Mario Meets Mario]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Bouncing Down Cake Lane]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Fast Foes of Toy Time]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi's Purple Coins]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Flipswitch Chain]]
|-
|[[Gate (Super Mario Galaxy)|Gate]]
|[[Gateway Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Grand Star Rescue]][[File:Smg icon redstar.png|link=Gateway's Purple Coins]]
|-
|[[Comet Observatory]]
|[[Bowser's Galaxy Reactor]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg icon grandstar.png|link=The Fate of the Universe]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Big, grounded'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[Terrace (Super Mario Galaxy)|Terrace]]
|[[Good Egg Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Dino Piranha (mission)]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=A Snack of Cosmic Proportions]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=King Kaliente's Battle Fleet]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Dino Piranha Speed Run]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coin Omelet]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi on the Roof]]
|-
|[[Bedroom (Super Mario Galaxy)|Bedroom]]
|[[Dusty Dune Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Soaring on the Desert Winds]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Blasting through the Sand]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Sunbaked Sand Castle]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Sandblast Speed Run]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coins in the Desert]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Bullet Bill on Your Back]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Treasure of the Pyramid]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Big, flying'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[Bedroom (Super Mario Galaxy)|Bedroom]]
|[[Gusty Garden Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Bunnies in the Wind]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Gusty Garden's Gravity Scramble]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Major Burrows's Daredevil Run]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coins on the Puzzle Cube]][[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Golden Chomp]]
|}
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{{br}}

====''Super Mario Galaxy 2''====
[[File:Luigi sliding.png|thumb|200px|Chains of prickly plants around [[Tall Trunk Galaxy]]'s slide in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'']]
In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', prickly plants act the same as before, but they can also be destroyed by having [[Yoshi]] eat them or by rolling into them in [[Rock Mario|Rock form]]. 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. Different variations are used in this game compared to the predecessor; aside from the normal type, there is also a floating type of the normal size that appears for segments with [[Cloud Mario]] or [[Blimp Yoshi]]. Additionally, the slide in the [[Tall Trunk Galaxy]] features a few unique variations of its own, such as enormous patches filling pits in the slide (which are rendered as flat textures rather than fully modeled), chains of five or eight plants in a row either along part of the slide's length or around part of the round shape of the slide (with each chain being treated as a distinct object in the data rather than each plant), and similar chains of twelve taller—but not wider—plants near the end of the slide that are harder to [[jump]] over.

=====Appearances=====
<div class="contentbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"data-expandtext="Show appearances"data-collapsetext="appearances">
'''Note:''' [[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png]] marks missions where prickly plants are absent.
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|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Normal'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[World 1 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 1]]
|[[Yoshi Star Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Saddle Up with Yoshi]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Spiny Control]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Spiny Rainbow Romp]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[World 2 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 2]]
|[[Boulder Bowl Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Rock and Rollodillo]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=C'mere, Goomba]][[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=Rolling Crabber Romp]]
|-
|[[Cosmic Cove Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Twin Falls Hideaway]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Exploring the Cosmic Cavern]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Catch That Star Bunny]]
|-
|[[World 3 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 3]]
|[[Tall Trunk Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Flotacious Blimp Fruit]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Big Slide]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide]]
|-
|[[World 4 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 4]]
|[[Starshine Beach Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Surf, Sand, and Silver Stars]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Climbing the Cloudy Tower]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Gravity Star Speed Run]]
|-
|[[World 5 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 5]]
|[[Slipsand Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Squizzard's Sandy Sinkhole]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Sailing the Sandy Seas]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Squizzard's Daredevil Run]]
|-
|[[World S]]
|[[Boss Blitz Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Throwback Throwdown]][[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=Throwback Throwdown Speed Run]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Normal, flying'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|rowspan=2|[[World 3 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 3]]
|[[Tall Trunk Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=The Flotacious Blimp Fruit]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Tall Trunk's Big Slide]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide]]
|-
|[[Cloudy Court Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Head in the Clouds]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Shadow Lining]][[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Silver Stars in the Purple Pond]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Patch'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[World 3 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 3]]
|[[Tall Trunk Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Flotacious Blimp Fruit]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Big Slide]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Normal, chain'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[World 3 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 3]]
|[[Tall Trunk Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Flotacious Blimp Fruit]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Big Slide]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=3|'''Tall, chain'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!Missions
|-
|[[World 3 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 3]]
|[[Tall Trunk Galaxy]]
|style="text-align:left"|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Flotacious Blimp Fruit]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Big Slide]][[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide]]
|}
</div>
{{br}}

====''Super Mario 3D Land''====
[[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), with 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]].

===''Mario Party'' series===
[[File:BigThornyFlower.png|thumb|left|In ''Mario Party: Island Tour'']]
Thorny flowers are obstacles in a few [[minigame]]s of the [[Mario Party (series)|''Mario Party'' series]]. In ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'', they appear in [[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. In ''[[Mario Party: Star Rush]]'', thorny flowers in the minigame [[Leafboard Hoard]].
{{br|left}}
==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMG Thorny Flower.png|''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
SMG2 Yoshi Star Road.png|Mario near some prickly plants in the [[Yoshi Star Galaxy]] in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2''
</gallery>

==Additional names==
===Internal names===
{{internal names
|game1=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''<br>''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''
|file1=<tt>ObjectData/NeedlePlant.arc</tt>
|name1=NeedlePlant
|meaning1=Needle Plant
|game2=''Super Mario Galaxy''<br>''Super Mario Galaxy 2''
|file2=<tt>StageData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl</tt><br><tt>SystemData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl</tt>
|name2=トゲ植物 (''Toge Shokubutsu'')
|meaning2=Thorn Plant
}}

===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jap=トゲ草
|JapR=Toge Kusa
|JapM=Thorn Grass
|JapC=<ref>{{cite|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=October 19, 2015|title=[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'']]|page=136 and 170|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
|JapN=''Super Mario Galaxy'' and ''Super Mario Galaxy 2''
|Jap2=トゲ植物
|Jap2R=Toge Shokubutsu
|Jap2M=Thorn Plant
|Jap2C=<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''|page=185}}</ref>
|Jap2N=''Super Mario 3D Land''
|Chi=紅色刺刺
|ChiR=Hóngsè Cì Cì
|ChiM=Red Spike
|FreA=Fleur à épines
|FreAM=Thorny flower
|FreAC=<ref>{{cite|title=[[Goomba to Maneuver|Défilé Goomba]] [https://imgur.com/a/bxttKgT minigame description]|publisher=Mario Party: Island Tour|website=Imgur}}</ref>
|FreE=Fleur à épines
|FreEM=Thorny flower
|FreEC=<ref>{{cite|title=[[Goomba to Maneuver|À la queue leu leu]] [https://imgur.com/a/bxttKgT minigame description]|publisher=Mario Party: Island Tour|website=Imgur}}</ref>
|FreE2=Herbe épineuse
|FreE2M=Thorny herbs
|FreE2C=<ref>{{cite|date=July 4, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Encyclopedia]]''|publisher=Soleil Productions|language=fr|isbn=2302070046|page=136 and 170}}</ref>
|FreE3=Plante épineuse
|FreE3M=Thorny plants
|FreE3C=<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Galaxy, Le Guide Officiel''|publisher=Prima Games|isbn=978-1906064020|page=170}}</ref>
|FreE4=Épineux
|FreE4M=Thorny, Spiny
|FreE4C=<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Galaxy, Le Guide Officiel''|page=171}}</ref>
|Ger=Stachelgras
|GerM=Barbed grass
|Ita=Pianta ago
|ItaM=Needle Plant
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=136 and 170}}</ref>
|Ita2=Spine rosse
|Ita2M=Red spikes
|Ita2N=by [[Whittle]]
|Kor=
|Por=Flor espinhosa
|PorM=Thorny flower
|PorC=<ref>{{cite|quote=Conduza o maior número de Goombas até a meta, evitando as flores espinhosas.|title=[[Goomba to Maneuver]] minigame description, ''Mario Party: Island Tour'' (European Portuguese)}}</ref>
|Rus=
|RusR=
|RusM=
|Spa=Flor espinosa
|SpaM=Thorny flower
|SpaC=<ref>{{cite|quote=Evita las flores espinosas para llegar a la meta con el mayor número de Goombas posible.|title=Goomba to Maneuver minigame description, ''Mario Party: Island Tour'' (European Spanish)}}</ref>
}}

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