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Golden Flowers are magical plants featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They appear in the seventh episode of the seventh season.
Golden Flowers are based on the flower of the same name from the Disney film Tangled, and the rapunzel plant from the fairytale "Rapunzel".
History
Under still unknown circumstances in the New Enchanted Forest, Rapunzel becomes imprisoned in a tower by a witch named Gothel, but she manages to turn the tables on her by using a golden flower to trap her instead while she herself escapes. ("Eloise Gardener")
Later, Hook seeks the golden flower, which can kill an immortal such as Rumplestiltskin, after learning the Evil Queen is unable to cast the Dark Curse. When Hook climbs into the tower in search of the witch, Gothel is already disguised as Rapunzel. She shows him a box containing a golden flower that was used to seal her in the tower and informs him the only viable one can be found by singing in the witch's garden, to which Hook agrees to come back for her after he has gotten the flower. In the garden, Hook sings a pirate's tune, triggering a giant-sized gnome into coming alive and chasing after him and his companion Smee, but he sings a lullaby to reveal the flower's location. He manages to grab the flower in time, causing the gnome's destruction, before going back into the tower to show the flower to Rapunzel. Hook asks how she intends to use it to free herself, but Rapunzel remains secretive about the details. She seduces him into sleeping with her, and unknown to Hook, this union causes her to fall pregnant. In Gothel's plan to escape the tower, she needs to leave behind someone of her bloodline in her place. As such, Gothel uses the golden flower to accelerate her pregnancy, resulting in a fully grown infant daughter by the next morning. After coming clean to Hook about everything including her true identity, she mentions leaving one flower petal for him to complete his revenge, but Hook abandons his plans to care for his daughter. ("Eloise Gardener")
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
| "Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
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| "A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
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