Nanosheet-assembled hierarchical flower-like titanium phosphate (TiP) is synthesized via hydrothermal treatment of H-titanate nanotubes (Ti-NT) at the optimized conditions of 0.1 M of H 3 PO 4 and hydrothermal temperature of 130°C. A possible formation mechanism for the TiP flowers, involving the disintegration of Ti-NT and the growth and assembling of TiP nanosheets, is proposed. The main compositions of the uncalcined TiP flowers are titanium hydrogen phosphate hydrates (Ti(HPO 4 ) 2 ÁxH 2 O), which can be transformed to titanium phosphate (TiP 2 O 7 ) after high temperature calcination. The photocatalytic activity of the prepared TiP flowers is increased with the increased calcination temperature, which may be attributed to the better photocatalytic activity of TiP 2 O 7 than Ti(HPO 4 ) 2 ÁxH 2 O and the increased crystallization of TiP 2 O 7 .