Flower is a skunk and close friend of Bambi who appears in Bambi and related material.
Background[]
Personality[]
Flower can be described as shy, sweet, and friendly, and he gladly accepts Bambi nicknaming him "Flower." He's also somewhat of a sleepy fellow who thoroughly enjoys hibernating.[2]
He is a flower-loving skunk. When he first met his friends, Bambi and Thumper, he was in a flower patch. When he reunited with Bambi and Thumper in adulthood, he smelled some nearby flowers. He would even meet his mate, Petunia when she was hiding in a bunch of flowers.[2]
He has a fear of turtles.[4]
Appearance[]
Flower appears to be a striped skunk. As a result of this, he has a skunk-like body and skunk-like coloring. He has what is mostly black fur. Around his eyes and on his nose, his fur his gray. His underbelly, palms of his hands, and soles of his feet are brown, though they sometimes appear to be a gray color, too. He has a white stripe starting at his nose, going up his head, and leading all the way down his back and to his tail. He has alternating black and white stripes on his tail.
Biography[]
Flower might have been born on March 18 of an unknown year.[1] His real name is unknown, as is much information regarding his family.
Sometime later, presumably in the month of April[5], he was in a flower patch when he met Bambi, who mistakenly gave him the nickname "Flower" while he was learning to talk, and the nickname stuck with him. He also met Bambi's friend, Thumper.[2]
Flower hibernated throughout the next winter. He was awakened briefly by Thumper and Bambi, who questioned his need for sleep. He explained that: "All us Flowers sleep in the winter." and continued with his rest.[2] He would be awakened yet again by Thumper and Bambi on Groundhog Day, the day on which it was declared by Groundhog that Spring had arrived, putting an end to winter and Flower's winter slumber.[4]
Flower and Thumper also helped Bambi learn how to be brave like his father, the Great Prince of the Forest. Flower was present when Bambi, in an attempt to be brave, was stuck by the Porcupine. He also saw the beginning of Bambi's fight with Ronno the Bully, but he fainted before he could see how it concluded.[4]
He would later learn that Bambi would be leaving to live elsewhere. That very night, the forest was stormed by Man's hunting dogs, who tried to attack Bambi. Flower assisted in slowing down the dogs by spraying on one of them, at the behest of Thumper.[4]
It would appear that, at some point, Flower fell out of contact with both Bambi and Thumper. He would reunite with them again when they were adults. On that day, they were lectured by Friend Owl about being twitterpated, which sounded awful to them. Despite their determination to never be twitterpated, which was about falling in love, Flower met and fell in love with his mate, Petunia, becoming the first of the trio to find a mate.[2]
He and Petunia would later become parents. They named their son, Bambi[2] after Flower's longtime friend. Their other two children were daughters they named Primrose and Buttercup.[3]
Relationships[]
- Flower's mother - Mother
- Bambi - Friend
- Thumper - Friend
- Faline - Friend
- Friend Owl - Friend
- Petunia - Mate
- Bambi the Skunk - Son
- Buttercup - Daughter
- Primrose - Daughter
Gallery[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Flower first appeared in the 1942 animated feature film Bambi, for which he was created. The original Bambi novels are set in Europe, a continent with no native skunks of its own.
Voices[]
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International Voices[]
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