List of fictional plants

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Fictional plants are plants that have been invented, and do not exist in real life. Fictional plants appear in films, literature, television, or other media.

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[edit] Plants from fiction

see List of plants of the Edge Chronicles for other species of plants
  • Mariphasa lupina lumina (Wolf Flower) - an extremely rare phosphorescent plant found only in the mountains of Tibet from the movie Werewolf of London
  • Moon Disc - an ovoid, translucent plant which has partial telepathy, and can move on its own from Blake's 7 TV series. It grows only on the planet Zondar and is the source of Shadow, a highly addictive drug whose inevitable result is death.
  • Mors ontologica - a little blue flower which is the source of the drug Substance D in Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly
  • Night-blooming Mock Orchid - a 'homely' plant bearing a single flower that opens only once every forty years, under the light of the moon, blooms for a few seconds, then wilts. Grown by Mr. Wilson in the 1993 movie Dennis the Menace.
  • Papadalupapadipu - a plant whose pod cures the common cold immediately-for men, in the sitcom Perfect Strangers. However, when women eat the plant, they grow a mustache and in two weeks suffer a relapse. The plant is said to grow on Mount Mypos on the Mediterranean Isle of Mypos, the fictional country of Balki Bartokomous.
  • Peahat, Deku Scrubs, Deku Baba - races of plant-like creatures from The Legend of Zelda series of video games
  • Peya - a bush with edible roots from the novel Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Piranha Plants - plants with mouths from the Mario series of video games, often depicted as sentient
  • Protoanthus - a plant similar to the first flowering plants which evolved in the Early Cretaceous period. It is a small shrub, similar in appearance to magnolia, with tiny white flowers. The name was made up for the Walking with Dinosaurs documentary series.
  • Re-annual plants - plants which, due to a rare 4-dimensional twist in their genetic structure, flower and grow before their seed germinates (from Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
  • Red weed - a red plant from Mars brought to Earth possibly accidentally by the invading Martians in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  • Rroamal - dangerous creeping parasite vine, from the novel Decision at Doona, by Anne McCaffrey
  • Rytt - vinelike carnivorous plant from the novel War Against the Rull by A. E. Van Vogt
  • SapSac - an explosive parasitic plant that ignites when attacked as a means of defense from Metroid Prime video game series
  • Shimmerweed - a light reflecting dandelion like weed from the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dragonlance campaign setting
  • Snake vine - an odd-looking vine with dusky, variegated leaves hunkered around a stem that winds a stranglehold around nearby trees, eventually killing them from the Sword of Truth fantasy series by Terry Goodkind. It will bite at nearby creatures, leaving deadly toothlike thorns that burrow into their skin and eventually kill them.
  • Solar Complexus Americanus - heat-generating plants imported from Venezuela. The Scandinavian botanist responsible for discovering these hot-air producers was none other than Professor Olaf Lipro (an anagram of April Fool). It was an April Fool's Day joke launched by Glasgow Herald in 1995.
  • Spaghetti tree - a tree from which spaghetti is harvested. It was an April Fool's Day joke launched by the BBC TV programme Panorama in 1957.
  • Spitfire Tree - a tree from the tropical rainforests of Antarctica 100 million year from now in the documentary film The Future Is Wild. It has a stout trunk, frond-like leaves sprouting from single stalks and separate male and female flowers which cover the surface of the trunk.
  • Sser - a bush with red poisonous berries which smelled deceptively sweet, from the novel Decision at Doona, by Anne McCaffrey
  • Stage trees - trees from Larry Niven's Known Space setting, originally engineered by the Tnuctipun. Stage trees have a core of solid rocket fuel in their trunks that they ignite when mature to disperse their seeds. Particularly large stage trees are able to reach escape velocity and as a result have spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy in a form of panspermia.
  • Stinky - a plant from the children's TV series Sesame Street
  • Supox utricularia - a race of kind, sentient plant creatures from Star Control computer game series
  • Tangle grass - writhing tendril like grass with minuscule barbs that capture small prey and impede larger animals. There is also a poisonous variety. From Metroid Prime video game series.
  • Tanna leaves - a mystical herb which has the property of attracting and controlling mummies in some mummy movies
  • Tava beans - edible beans which the Genii grow and trade with in Stargate Atlantis TV series (episode "Underground")
  • Tesla trees - large electrified trees from the planet Hyperion in Hyperion Cantos novels by Dan Simmons. They appear to store up electricity inside their body during certain seasons, releasing all of it in huge arcs of lightning from their crown, burning away all that was growing or walking near them and thus getting fertilizer.
  • Tirils - fictional plants from Parallel Botany by Leo Lionni. One species, Tirillus silvador, has the extraordinary ability to produce shrill, whistling sounds audible to two or three hundred meters.
  • Trama root - a thick claw-like root, an ingredient for making a levitation potion from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind video game
  • Traversers - giant vegetal spider analogues which spin their webs between Earth and Moon in the novel Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
  • Treant - race of humanoid trees from Dungeons & Dragons and other similar games
  • Tree-of-Life - the ancestor of yams, with similar appearance and taste, from Larry Niven's Known Space novels
  • Treeships - living trees that are propelled through space by ergs - "force field creatures" in Hyperion Cantos novels by Dan Simmons. The containment fields generated by the ergs around the tree keep its atmosphere intact.
  • Triffids - carnivorous plants which are able to move and possess a whip-like poisonous sting, from the novel The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John 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) by Simon Clark.
  • Truffula tree - from the children's story The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • Tumtum tree - appears in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky found in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
  • Vul nut vine - a re-annual plant which can begin to flower as much as eight years before being sown in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The wine obtain from vul nut vine can give the drinker an insight into the future.
  • Whistling leaves - a plant easy to find as the large leaves have big holes that make a whistling noise (hence the plant's name) when the wind blows through them. The leaves contain a powerful diuretic. From the comic book Elfquest.
  • White Claudia - a plant that grows in lake or river banks from Silent Hill video game series. It has long, circular leaves and white flowers. The seeds are used to obtain a highly-addictive hallucinogenic drug.
  • Wroshyr trees - kilometers-tall trees native to the planet Kashyyyk from Star Wars universe
  • Yangala-Cola - a mushroom native to Amazonian Jungle from Syberia video game. When ground up and ingested it enhances eyesight acuteness.

[edit] Plants from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

  • Alfirin - bell-shaped golden flower
  • Athelas - healing plant with long leaves (also known as Kingsfoil or Asëa Aranion)
  • Brambles of Mordor - large, black brambles that grew in the lands of Mordor
  • Culumalda - golden-red trees of Ithilien
  • Elanor - a small star-shaped yellow flower whose name means sun-star
  • Ents - a race of humanoid trees
  • Gallows-weed - swamp residing, tree hanging weed
  • Mallorn - a tree with smooth, silver-grey bark and golden leaves in autumn
  • Mallos - bell-shaped golden flower
  • Niphredil - a small star-shaped white flower whose name means the star of the earth
  • Pipe-weed - (also known as Halflings' Leaf), a wild plant with sweet-scented flowers used for smoking
  • Simbelmynë - (also known as Evermind), a white, bell-shaped flower that grows on the graves of Rohan kings
  • Two Trees of Valinor

[edit] Plants from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

  • Abyssinian shrivelfig - an ingredient in Shrinking Solution.†
  • Alihotsy - ingestion of its leaves causes hysteria.†
  • Bouncing bulb - an animated bulb plant; appears in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
  • Bubotuber - thick, black, slug-like plants that grow vertically out of the soil. It is normal for them to squirm and they are covered in pus-filled swellings.
  • Devil's Snare - a vine plant that strangles people and wilts in the sunlight. Harry, Ron, and Hermione find themselves caught in it in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and it strangles a man in St. Mungo's hospital in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
  • Fanged Geranium - a geranium that bites humans.†
  • Flutterbloom - a plant that superficially resembles a Devil's Snare but is non-violent.†
  • Flutterby bush - a bush that quivers and shakes.†
  • Gillyweed - when eaten this plant causes the user to grow gills and thus become able to breathe underwater.
  • Gurdyroot - resembles a green onion.†
  • Honking daffodyl
  • Leaping toadstool
  • Mandrakes - tubers that look like babies when young. Their screams can kill when fully grown. A potion made from mature mandrakes can restore victims that have been Petrified. (A different kind of Mandrake is a real plant.)
  • Mimbulus mimbletonia - a cactus with boils instead of spines; sprays foul-smelling goo in a large radius when poked.
  • Puffapod - a large pink pod filled with seeds; bursts into flower when dropped.†
  • Screechsnap - a semi-sentient plant that wriggles and squeaks uncomfortably when given too much dragon dung manure.†
  • Snargaluff - a dangerous man-eating carnivorous plant, deceptively taking shape of a dead tree stump when in passive condition; shoots out thorny vines to catch the prey. From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
  • Venomous Tentacula - a species of magical plant that possess a series of dark red spiny tentacles; appears in PC video games as a venus flytrap with a tentaculated base - later rendered like a flower with teeth inside the petals. A wizard comedian is known to have survived eating this plant on a bet, though he is still purple.
  • Whomping Willow - a large, violent tree that thrashes its branches at those who approach it. Though it first appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it features significantly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

†The Harry Potter Lexicon: Magical and Mundane Plants. Retrieved on September 2, 2006.

[edit] Plants from Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series

  • Arhada - a tall, long-lived, tree resembling an oak or chestnut, with brown trunks and oval leaves with a hint of gold
  • Corly - corly-root smoke is used as a treatment for fever
  • Fourfoil - a herb (not a four-leaf clover, since Ged cannot identify it...)
  • Hazia - the root of this plant is used as an addictive drug to give visions. It blackens the mouth and causes nervous disorders and eventually death.
  • Hemmen - large tree
  • Hurbah tree - low-growing tree that silkworms feed on
  • Kingsfoil - a herb
  • Lacefoam - white-flowered weed
  • Nilgu - giant brown seaweed with fronds 80 to 100 feet long, and whose fibres are used for cloth, rope and nets
  • Paramal - a herb
  • Pendick-tree - red-flowering tree
  • Perriot - a plant whose leaves are used to staunch bleeding
  • Rushwash - herb used to make rushwash tea
  • Sparkweed - yellow meadow flower
  • White hallows - white-flowering herb growing in river meadows and marshes, with healing properties

[edit] Plants from Dungeons & Dragons

  • Death's Head Tree - a tree that grows in human blood on a battle field and whose fruit resembles heads (those of the bodies the tree has eaten) that can spit seeds like bullets
  • LashWeed - a monster plant that grabs animals nearby and eats them

[edit] Plants from Monty Python's Flying Circus

  • Angolan sauntering tree (Amazellus robin ray)
  • Gambian sidling bush
  • Puking Tree of Mozambique
  • The Turkish little rude plant - a remarkably smutty piece of flora used by the Turks
  • Walking tree of Dahomey (Quercus nicholas parsonus) - the legendary walking tree that can achieve speeds of up to 50 miles an hour, especially when it's in a hurry

[edit] Plants from mythology

[edit] See also

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