Learn how to cross-breed flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to create new hybrid colors. Discover combinations for lilies, mums, windflowers, pansies, tulips, cosmos, hyacinths, and roses.
This guide explains how to cross-breed flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to create new hybrid colors and provides the specific cross-breeding combinations for each flower breed.
How to Cross-Breed Flowers
Flowers can only cross-breed if they are watered. A watered flower will sparkle. While not guaranteed, watering flowers increases the chance of cross-breeding. Having friends water your flowers, especially up to four people, maximizes the chance. The more people who water a flower, the shinier and bigger the sparkles become, with golden sparkles indicating maximum watering. To further increase success rates, plant flowers diagonally so they are touching but have space for new flowers to grow between them.
Golden Watering Can
The Golden Watering Can is specifically used to cross-breed black roses to create Golden Roses. It is advised to have many black roses and have others water them to increase the low spawn-rate and cross-breed chances for Golden Roses.
Cross-Breeding Hybrids
The following tables show the possible hybrids and the combinations to achieve them for each flower breed.
Lilies
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | Black | Orange | Pink |
| Yellow | Orange | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | - |
Mums
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | – | Hybrid Yellow | Pink |
| Yellow | Hybrid Yellow | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | Purple |
Hybrid Yellow Mums can be cross-bred together to grow Hybrid Purple Mums. Two of these specific Purple Mums can then be used to grow rare Green hybrid mums.
Windflowers
| Red | Orange | White | |
| Red | - | Pink | – |
| Orange | Pink | - | - |
| White | – | - | Blue |
Pink and Blue Windflowers can be used to create Hybrid Red Windflowers. Hybrid Red Windflowers can then be used to grow Purple windflowers. These can only be spawned through using Hybrid red windflowers, not regular ones. Blue Windflowers have a higher chance to spawn, making them more common.
Pansies
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | - | Orange | Pink |
| Yellow | Orange | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | Blue |
Blue pansies can be cross-bred with Red pansies to grow Hybrid Red pansies. Two Hybrid Red pansies can then be used to grow rare Purple pansies.
Tulips
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | Black | Orange | Pink |
| Yellow | Orange | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | - |
Orange tulips can be cross-bred together to grow Purple tulip hybrids.
Cosmos
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | - | Orange | Pink |
| Yellow | Orange | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | - |
Orange cosmos can be cross-bred together to grow Black cosmos hybrids.
Hyacinths
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | - | Orange | Pink |
| Yellow | Orange | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | Blue |
Orange hyacinths can be cross-bred together to grow Purple hybrids.
Roses
Roses have the most variations of all flowers and are the only breed with golden hybrids.
| Red | Yellow | White | |
| Red | Black | Orange | Pink |
| Yellow | Orange | - | - |
| White | Pink | - | Purple |
Purple roses cross-bred with Red roses will create Hybrid pink flowers. These are the only pink hybrid roses that can be used to create Hybrid red roses. Hybrid pink roses cross-bred with yellow flowers will grow Hybrid red roses. These are the only variant of the red rose that can be used to grow the rare Blue rose. Two Hybrid red roses have a chance to grow the blue rose. Black roses can be cross-bred together to grow Golden roses. These can only be grown if the black roses are watered using a Golden Watering Can.
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