fireflower

- Hold on to a fireflower in your “save” slot on castle and tower levels, fireball is a cheap way to kill most bosses.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary of a Cartoonist: Episode 12

- When you have a fireflower in your “save” slot and you restart a level as small mario, find a mushroom box and use your saved flower before hitting the box.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary of a Cartoonist: Episode 12

Bushes grew sparse and low on the stony slopes, here I he dusty green of vasi, there a shaggy hairleaf, yonder a scarlet fireflower.

Genesis

She had piled her hair in great coils on the crown of her head, as Yvonne, the younger of the Englishwomen, had taught her, and in the rich jet of it had half buried a vivid sprig of the crimson fireflower.

Baree, Son of Kazan

That way you’ll be fire mario and still have a fireflower in your save slot.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary of a Cartoonist: Episode 12