Fume Rose

Fume Rose is a plant in Plants vs Zombies 2: It's About Time. It is a defensive plant that can also slow zombies and is immune to fire tiles. It is found in Fire O' London on an unknown day.

Almanac Entry
Fume Rose can defend itself and slow Zombies.

Toughness: Elevated

Range: 3x3

Special: Near-Immune to fire

Recharge: Slow

Fume Rose stinks, and nobody means that as an insult. But what nobody knows is he's practiced in Gymnastics, Rugby and wrestling. He knows how to make sure he's tough to hurt. He can endure things quite well.

Plant Food Effect
When given Plant food, all zombies in a 5x7 area around it will be slowed by it's smell. Fume Rose will then turn to stone, which elevates it's toughness to that of a Tall-nut but only zombies eating it will be slowed. This also makes it COMPLETELY immune to fire.

Strategies
Fume Rose is near-immune to fire, which, if one thinks about it, is a great blessing. It can be used to defend the player's plants from fire while also protecting them from harm, which makes the need for Waterbell lower because letting the fire rage on the place the zombies walk on will make them hurt more easily. However, if too much fire is around Fume Rose (three Fire Tiles adjacent to it) then Fume Rose's defense will be eliminated, and it will burn ten seconds after the adjascent fire lights regardless of whether it would usually burn at that point or not. The solution? defend Fume Rose from fire tiles. One can have a full row of fume roses, use Waterbells to stop too much fire getting to Fume Rose, and then watch the zombies BURN!

Try to make sure the fire doesn't get too out of control, though, because otherwise Waterbell's recharge will be too slow to stop the burning.

Fume Rose is also immune to Explorer Zombie's flames, making it somewhat useful in Ancient Egypt.

Trivia

 * Fume Rose has had several different planned names:

Firose, Rose Resist, Thorn Rose, and the final name, Fume rose.
 * Fume Rose is the most changed plant that GhostPepper12 has made from it's original design.
 * Fume Rose was originally meant to be a blueberry instead.