Carnation Bulborb

The Carnation Bulborb is a prototype bulborb found in the files of. It resembles a typical bulborb, but has beady black eyes, is mostly pink in color except for the white spots on its rump, and lacks eyestalks, fangs, and legs.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin: Wide World
The Carnation Bulborb is a rather bizarre member of the grub-dog family appearing in Pikmin: Wide World. No dwarf variant of them is encountered, though they do resemble oversized, mutated Bulborb Larvae in both appearance and behavior. They may be found sleeping on dry land, away from other creatures, and awaken upon being touched or injured, or hearing a sound loud enough to rouse it from its slumber. While awake, it will pursue nearby Pikmin and leaders until they flee its territory. Any Pikmin or leaders it is close enough to will be eaten, although leaders will be chewed up and then forcibly spat out alongside any Pikmin in its mouth at the time. When prey is no longer around, the creature will attempt to return to a spot near its original resting position to resume its slumber.

Carnation Bulborbs are mainly pink in color, giving them their name. They are the size and shape of most other bulborbs, but lack legs and thus are forced to lurch along the ground to move. The face of a Carnation Bulborb is a much lighter hue of pink than its white-spotted backside. Unlike other grub-dogs, the eyes of the Carnation Bulborb are poorly developed, as its eyes are small, beady, and completely black in color. Carnation Bulborbs also lack fangs, but they have no problem swallowing Pikmin whole and biting leaders.

The optimal method of defeating a Carnation Bulborb is to charge Pikmin towards its backside while it is sleeping. Pikmin can also be thrown at its backside, but charging is much more effective. Attacking one head-on can be difficult since its eyes are so small and cannot have Pikmin thrown onto them to irritate the creature. However, it moves quite slowly while awake, so attacking it should be no problem no matter the circumstance. Upon defeat, a Carnation Bulborb will yield. On the surface, the remains of a Carnation Bulborb can be brought to either the Dolphin Lander for or the Master Onion for eight Pikmin seeds. Underground, its corpse can be taken to the Lander Pod to either gain or be stored for later to receive eight Pikmin seeds from the Master Onion, but only if the cave is exited using an escape geyser.