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Bellossom (キレイハナ Kireihana in Japan, Blubella in Germany and Joliflor in France) is a fictional character from the Pokémon franchise. It is one of two evolutions of Gloom (the other form being Vileplume). Like other Pokémon of its type, Bellossom likes sunlight and hates shade.

The English name is a combination of the words "bell" and "blossom", with a more subtle usage of the Latin root "bella" as "beautiful."

Its Japanese name is Kireihana (キレイハナ), which means "beautiful flower."

Biology

Bellossom is a diurnal plant pokémon. It evolves from Gloom if exposed to a Sun Stone. Because of this, it lives mostly in tropical climates.

Bellossom can be very territorial and violent fights can break out if there is an intruder or a challenger. Despite this, it is very social in areas outside of its self-determined territory, and the most common time to find a group of Bellossom together is when they all meet in one location to dance. It is said (in the animé, manga, and video games) that these dances summon the sun.

Bellossom's petals can rotate, and they usually do when it is absorbing sun. The color of their leaves vary from a slickly brown-grey to a fluorescent yellow-red, depending on how much sunlight it has absorbed in the past few hours. (The picture to the right depicts one in between those two extremes.) When its petals are moving, either due to rotating or dancing, they rub together to make relaxing, bell-like sounds; some Bellossom have been trained to control these sounds, and to make proper music with them.

Bellossom looks like a flower girl (literally), despite the fact that there are male Bellossom as well.

In the video games

Bellossom cannot be found in the wild; it must be evolved from Gloom with a Sun Stone. It can be evolved in this way beginning with Pokémon Gold and Silver.

Bellossom learns one special ability: Chlorophyll. This ability doubles it Speed when the weather is sunny.

Bellossom learns only two fighting moves: Petal Dance at level 44 (a physical attack) and Solarbeam at level 55 (an energy attack). It is assumed that it will have retained moves from its earlier form, Gloom.

Bellossom is strange in that it is the only Pokémon that completely loses a type when it evolves. It is a pure Grass type Pokémon, while it was Grass/Poison when it was Gloom. The Poison typing does not get replaced with another type, as with other Pokémon. It just disappears.

It is also one of the very few pokemon that actually shrinks in size rather then grow in size like other pokemon, going from a 1'08 Gloom to a dimunitive 1'04, it's even smaller then it's first form, Oddish. The only other pokemon to do this as it evolves is Porygon as it evolves into Porygon2

In the Nintendo Gamecube game Super Smash Bros. Melee, Bellossom appears randomly when a Poké Ball is thrown. Once released, it hovers in place and uses the Sleep Powder technique it inherited from its unevolved form Gloom to temporarily put opponents to sleep. Unlike in the Pokémon video games, it is possible to wake a character asleep by attacking it, but unless the attack does significant knockback, the attacked character will fall right back into Bellossom's sleeping powder.

In the animé

Bellossom is notable in that it is one of only a few pokémon to have had a song named after it. For the movie Pokémon 2000, the song Dance of the Bellossom was composed in the style of music that Bellossom create.

Other than that, Bellossom is a popular pokémon, and along with numerous episodes in which a young girl was seen to train it for its beauty and its music, it played a role in the short Pikachu's Rescue Adventure, the movie Pokémon 4Ever, and in episodes 124 (Flower Power), 148 (Tricks of the Trade), 180 (The Grass Route), 182 (Houndoom's Special Delivery), 189 (Moving Pictures), 195 (Sick Daze), 202 (Turning Over A New Bayleef), 209 (Got Miltank?), 227 (Bulbasaur The Ambassador), 241 (Whichever Way The Wind Blows), 251 (I Politoed You So!), 260 (Hatch Me If You Can), 287 (A Bite To Remember), 290 (All In A Day's Wurmple), 291 (Gonna Rule The School), 311 (Win, Lose, or Drew), and 339 (Take The Lombre Home).

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