Hybrid Flowers Guide - Cross Pollination and How to Cross Breed Flowers | ACNH - Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)

This is a guide to cross pollination or flower breeding in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) for Nintendo Switch. In addition to an explanation of cross pollination or flower breeding, this guide will explain everything there is to know about how to breed hybrid flowers. Read on to learn more!

How to Make Hybrid Flowers

3 Ways of Cross Pollination

Flowers originally on the island will produce special hybrid flowers

For the most part, hybrid flowers will be produced as shown below, but when using flowers that were already on your island, it will create a random colored flower.

For example, cross pollinating a red rose and a white rose will create a pink or red hybrid flower, but when cross pollinating using two flowers of these colors that were native to your island, it is possible to create yellow roses, etc.

Adjacant and Diagonal Flowers Will Cross-Breed

Hybrid flowers can be made in a 3x3 space grid

Cross pollination or crossbreeding only works within a fixed space, within a 3x3 space grid. Cross-pollination happens when flowers of the same type are adjacant, even if they are diagonal, like in the image above.

When certain conditions are met, cross polllination will result in rare hybrid flowers. See the chart below for more information on hybrid flower colors.

Do Flowers Bloom Easy If You Use a Watering Can?

Watering flowers with the watering can will cause flowers to sparkle. On the next day, buds can grow into flowers, and nearby flowers can bloom, so it seems that using a Watering Can can make cross pollination much easier.

Note: This information is still unconfirmed, so it will be updated in the near future.

How to Get the Watering Can | Watering Can Recipe

There are Cross-Breeds That Require Specific Tools

You need a Gold Watering Can to make Golden Roses

There is a specific type of flower called a Golden Rose, which is bred in a different way than how you would usually cross-breed flowers. This also requires the Golden Watering Can. To learn more about breeding Golden Roses, please see our guide.

How to Grow Golden Roses

Cross Pollination / Crossbreeding Flower Chart

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Roses	Tulips	Hyacinths	Mums
Pansies	Lilies	Windflowers	Cosmoses

Hybrid Roses

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Golden Rose *	Black Rose	Black Rose
Black Rose	Red Rose	Red Rose
Blue Rose	Red Rose *1	Red Rose *1
Red Rose	Purple Rose	Orange Rose
Purple Rose	White Rose	White Rose
Orange Rose	Red Rose	Yellow Rose
Pink Rose	Red Rose	White Rose

*The Black Rose can be cross pollinated by watering it with the Golden Watering Can.

*1 This Red Rose was crossbred between a purple rose and an orange rose

How to Get Roses | Using Roses as a DIY Material

Hybrid Tulips

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Black Tulip	Red Tulip	Red Tulip
Purple Tulip	Orange Tulip	Orange Tulip
Pink Tulip	White Tulip	Red Tulip
Orange Tulip	Red Tulip	Yellow Tulip

How to Get Tulips | Using Tulips as a DIY Material

Hybrid Hyacinths

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Blue Hyacinth	White Hyacinth	White Hyacinth
Pink Hyacinth	Red Hyacinth	White Hyacinth
Orange Hyacinth	Red Hyacinth	Yellow Hyacinth
Purple Hyacinth	Orange Hyacinth	Orange Hyacinth

How to Get Hyacinths | Using Hyacinths as a DIY Material

Hybrid Mums

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Pink Mum	Red Mum	White Mum
Purple Mum	White Mum	White Mum
Green Mum	Purple Mum	Purple Mum

How to Get Mums | Using Mums as a DIY Material

Hybrid Pansies

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Blue Pansy	White Pansy	White Pansy
Orange Pansy	Red Pansy	Yellow Pansy
Purple Pansy *	Blue Pansy	Blue Pansy

*As there are still uncertainties regarding breeding Purple Pansies, you can help us by leaving a comment below! The one we have on the table is what we have confirmed in-game.

How to Get Pansies | Using Pansies as a DIY Material

Hybrid Lilies

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Black Lily	Red Lily	Red Lily
Orange Lily	Red Lily	Yellow Lily
Pink Lily	Red Lily	White Lily

How to Get Lilies | Using Lilies as a DIY Material

Hybrid Windflowers

Note: There may be multiple ways to crossbreed a Purple Windflower, so the full list is still TBD.

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Pink Windflower	Red Windflower	Orange Windflower
Blue Windflower	White Windflower	White Windflower
Purple Windflower	Blue Windflower Pink Windflower Pink Windflower Red Windflower *	Blue Windflower Pink Windflower Blue Windflower Red Windflower *

*1 This Red Windflower was crossbred between a blue windflower and a red windflower from seed.

How to Get Windflowers | Using Windflowers as a DIY Material

Hybrid Cosmoses

Hybrid Flower	Parent 1	Parent 2
Orange Cosmos	Red Cosmos	Yellow Cosmos
Pink Cosmos	Red Cosmos	White Cosmos
Black Cosmos	Orange Cosmos	Orange Cosmos

How to Get Cosmoses | Using Cosmoses as a DIY Material

Related Guides

List of Flowers

Flower Related Links
How to Make Hybrid Flowers Cross Pollination / Crossbreeding Guide
Windflowers	Roses	Hyacinths
Mums	Lilies	Tulips
Pansies	Cosmoses	Bushes
Lily of the Valley