G'Quan Eth: A plant indigenous to theNarn homeworld, used as incense in religious ceremonies fromBabylon 5. It is ritually burned as incense, and its seeds are a narcotic forCentauri when dropped inalcohol.[2]
Integral Trees: Enormous trees from the science-fiction novelThe Integral Trees byLarry Niven. They are 100 kilometers long and have a leafy "tuft" at each end oriented in opposite directions forming an ∫, theintegral symbol.
Sapient pearwood: A rare species of plant in Terry Pratchett'sDiscworld series. It can grant other objects sapience.
Snake vine: A dusky, variegated vine originating fromThe Sword of Truth. Its bite contains deadly tooth-like thorns that burrow into the skin and eventually kill the victim.
Serenna veriformans: A fictional plant that appears in theJurassic Park franchise.
Tesla trees: Large trees from the planet Hyperion inHyperion Cantos. They can absorb and release electricity via their crown.
Tree-of-Life: The ancestor ofyams, with similar appearance and taste, fromLarry Niven'sKnown Space novels.
Triffids: Carnivorous plants which possess a whip-like poisonous sting as well as mobility by three foot-like appendages, from the novelThe Day of the Triffids (1951) byJohn Wyndham. They subsequently appeared in a radio series (BBC, 1960), a motion picture (1962), a TV series (BBC, 1981) and a sequel novel,The Night of the Triffids (2001) bySimon Clark.
Mallorn: A huge tree with green-and-silver leaves turning golden in autumn and remaining so till spring,[4] upon which the Elves of Lothlórien housed[7]
Nimloth: The White Tree of Númenor, a seedling of Celeborn, a seedling of Galathilion, created in the image ofTelperion[T 1][T 2][4]
Niphredil: A small white flower fromDoriath and Lothlórien[4]
Pipe-weed: "A strain of the herbnicotiana" (tobacco); varieties mentioned include Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, Southern Star (grown inthe Shire) and Southlinch, fromBree[8][9]
Oiolairë: An evergreen fragrant tree highly esteemed by theNúmenóreans[4][10]
Simbelmynë: A white flower that grew inGondolin andRohan (also known as Evermind and Alfirin)[4][11]
Bubotuber: A slug-like plant whose essence is useful in treating pimples.
Chinese Chomping Cabbage: A flesh-eating plant featured inHogwarts Legacy.
Devil's Snare: A vine that prefers to grow in damp and dark areas and tangles its victims to death.Professor Sprout uses the Devil's Snare, among other objects, to protect thePhilosopher's Stone.
Dirigible plum: A tree with fruits that grow upside-down.
Dittany: A herb with powerful medicinal properties.
Fanged Geranium
Gillyweed: A seaweed-like plant that grants temporary fish-like characteristics to those who ingest it.
Gurdyroot: A plant that resembles a green onion. It is the basis for a foul-tasting purple infusion brewed by theLovegoods to fend off Gulping Plimpies.[12][13] Considered not very original by gardening expert Charles Elliott, depending on a funny name for effect.[14]
Mandrake: Tubers that look like babies when young. Their screams can kill when fully grown. A potion made from mature mandrakes can reverse petrification.
Mimbulus mimbletonia: A cactus-like plant.
Snargaluff: A flesh-eating tree.
Venomous tentacula
The Whomping Willow: A tree with mobile, club-like branches.
Firemoss: A red-brown moss that, when activated by rubbing between the thumb and forefinger, releases wisps of smoke that create feelings of euphoria when inhaled and is used as a recreational drug.[15] Firemoss is highly addictive, limiting its medicinal use, though it is sometimes used to reduce cranial swelling[16] and offer pain relief.[17]
Knobweed: Like most of the plants found on Rohsar, knobweed has adapted to survive the planet's harsh storms. The reed-like stalk anchors itself directly to stone and the frond found at the top of the stalk has the ability to contract and retreat into the stalk during storms for protection. Knobweed reproduces by releasing fluffy pappuses that carry seeds into the air. The milky white sap found inside knobweed stems is a natural and highly valuable antiseptic used in the field and by established apothecaries.[16]
Prickletac: Prickletac plants are actually colonies of much smaller living buds. As each generation of buds dies it converts to a hard, stony material which the next generation builds upon.[17] Prickletac's reproductive system is based on this oddity – when a 'limb' grows too large it breaks off and falls to the ground, scattering living buds. Also known asTwisted Spine.[18]
Rockbuds: Rockbud is both a general term for several shelled plants on Roshar, includingLavis Polyps,Vinebuds, andPrickletac Shrubs, and the proper name for a specific plant. The true Rockbud plant is a shelled plant containing lengthy tendrils that reach out to lap up water (and occasionally animal blood).[16] The size of fully grown rockbuds depends largely on climate. In colder climates they grow no larger than a human fist, while rockbuds in warm climates can grow to the size of a barrel.[17] Rockbuds are harvested for consumption, limited medicinal uses, and paper making.
Shalebark: A class of stony, fanlike plants often used for decoration and landscaping.[16]
Tears of Edgli: Vibrantly colored flowers that grow only in the temperate T'Telir climate. Highly valuable both economically and magically.[19]
On the planet First of the Sun(Sixth of the Dusk);
Unnamed Telepathic Trees: Many flora and fauna on this planet communicate with a form of natural telepathy. Certain unnamed plants living on the islands that make up the Pantheon send false thoughts of wounded or frightened animals to attract predators, which often fight and leave victims dead near enough to the tree to provide nutrition. These plants are not directly carnivorous.[20]
Dorim vines: Dorim vines live under the sand that covers most of Taldain's Dayside continent, reaching down to the water table where they fill themselves with water as a defensive mechanism against predators – the hard shells of many of the continents animals is dissolved by contact with water. Pouring water onto sand draws nearby vines out of the ground.[21]
The role-playing gameDungeons & Dragons has a number of, according to Charles Elliott "not-very-ingenious", imaginary plant species,[14] as well as "a taxonomy of fungal horrors", which Ben Woodard considers eerie not only for their poisonous nature, but because many have the ability to move.[22]
Basidirond: A giant multi-stemmed fungus creature[23]
Hangman tree: A tree that will attempt to strangle anyone who ventures under it[24]
Kelpie: A shape-shifting mass of animate seaweed that can imitate a woman or other creatures, and drowns its victims[24]
Myconid: A "race of [man-sized] sentient fungus creatures", "some of which pack a mean punch", and which have the "ability to spray poisons that can disable their foes".[25]
Oaken defender: An enormous disk-shaped plant that lives in dryad groves and assists in their defense[26]
Obliviax: A black moss that steals memories from intelligent creatures.[24] The obliviax appeared onGeek.com's list of "The most underrated monsters of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", because ingesting the moss can transfer the memories, an "interesting" concept which lends itself to "Christopher Nolan-esque adventures that will be both universally applauded and terribly confusing at the same time.".[27]
Phantom fungus:[22] A dangerous subterranean plant that grapples victims with tentacles[28]
Shambling mound:[22] An atrocious plant-like creature, also called a shambler[24]
Shrieker: Ambulatory fungus,[22] which "can be used as cheap alarm systems for Underdark societies, but they possess no combat abilities of their own. The only thing a shrieker can do is shriek". Scott Baird ofScreen Rant ranked the Shrieker among the weakest monsters in the game.[25]
Tendriculos: An enormous, savage, sentient plant resembling a huge, tangled shrubbery[28]
Treant: Sentient, humanoid trees who protect forests from antagonists[24]
Vegepygmy: A "mold man", a former human transformed by russet mold[24]
Wood woad: A creature resembling big, burly, bestial men made entirely of wood and bark bearing, but without foliage[29]
Yellow musk creeper:[22] Acreeping plant that drains the intelligence of its victims, killing them or turning them into "yellow muskzombies" under the plant's control[24]
In theAvatar franchise, plants onPandora have evolved according to the characteristics of their environment, which has a thicker atmosphere than Earth. Pandoran plants can communicate via a phenomenon called 'signal transduction'.[30][31]
Video games frequently feature fictional plants as items that can be collected by the player, or occasionally appear as non-player characters.
TheMonster Hunter series has multiple fictional flowers and plants that can be gathered by the player character, including nulberries, might seeds, flowferns, and dragonstrike nuts.
InThe Legend of Zelda series, plants play a significant role. In many games, bomb flowers allowLink to explode rocks and obstacles.[32] InBreath of the Wild andTears of the Kingdom, Link can collect plants that grant him buffs when cooked.[33] TheGreat Deku Tree, the guardian of the Korok Forest, is a recurring character in the franchise.[34][35][36]
Broc Flower: A medicinal plant appearing in theFallout series.
TheBlack Mercy is an extraterrestrial plant appearing in theDC Comics universe that can force others to witness a simulation of their greatest desire. It plays a prominent role in the story "For the Man Who Has Everything", whereMongul uses it onSuperman.[39]
TheCotati are a plant-like species from theMarvel Comics universe who originate from the same planet as theKree.[40]
Austras koks: A tree which grows from the start of the Sun's daily journey across the sky inLatvian mythology.
Barnacle tree: A mythical tree believed in theMiddle Ages to have barnacles that opened to revealgeese. The story may have started fromgoose barnacles growing ondriftwood.
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