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- Adele - a giant carnivorous plant from the comedy film ''Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet'' (1977) by Oldřich Lipský
- ''Aechmea asenionii'' - a giant Bromeliad discovered in the jungles of Brazil , from the SF short story ''The Asenion Solution'' by Robert Silverberg . It has dark green leaves, an immense central black flower and emanates a strong odor of rotting flesh. (Note: ''Aechmea'' is a real genus of bromeliads).
- Akarso - a plant characterized by almost oblong leaves. Its green and white stripes indicate the constant multiple condition of parallel active and dormant chlorophyll regions, from the Dune Universe .
- Audrey Jr./Audrey II - carnivorous extraterrestrial plant from the movie '' Little Shop Of Horrors ''
- Aum Plant - a plant commonly used for it's healing abilities on open wounds from the Sword Of Truth fantasy series by Terry Goodkind
- Axis - a gigantic coiling tree which stretches high above the clouds in the ''
- Bat Thorn - a plant, similar to Wolfsbane , offering protection against Vampire s in some vampire movies
- Biollante - a monster plant of titanic proportions in the movie '' Godzilla Vs Biollante ''
- Blood Orchid - a rare flower found only in the jungles of ''. The plant supposedly grants longer life by allowing cells to reproduce far longer.
- Bloodflower - a venom spitting flower from the Video Game '' Metroid Prime ''
- Candypop Bud - a flower found in the video games, Pikmin and Pikmin 2
- Chamalla - plant from '' Battlestar Galactica (2004) '' TV series. The extract of chamalla is used as alternative medicine for a range of treatments, including cancer. A side effect from using chamalla appears to be that the user suffers from hallucinations or prescient visions.
- Chuck The Plant - a plant found in several of LucasArts ' games
- Cleopatra - the carnivorous plant kept as a pet in '' The Addams Family '' series
- Deathbottle - a carnivorous plant which grows natural pitfall traps lined with spikes in the documentary film '' The Future Is Wild ''
- Dyson Tree - a hypothetical Genetically-engineered plant, (perhaps resembling a tree) capable of growing on a comet, suggested by the physicist Freeman Dyson
- Elowan - a race of plant-like creatures in '' Starflight '' computer game
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- Genesis Trees - trees located in the world of Legaia from the video game '' Legend Of Legaia ''. They have the power to keep a large area free of the Mist .
- Gingold - a rare tropical fruit from Yucatan in '' DC Comics ''. The gingold extract makes the user of it stretchier, and a Gingold soda pop was popular among Indian rubber men at circus sideshows. Ralph Dibny drank a concentrated elixir made from it to become the superhero called the Elongated Man .
- Giraluna - a plant with paramimetic qualities, evident in its metallic seeds, or spherostills, on its corona, in ''Parallel Botany'' by Leo Lionni
- G'Quan Eth - plant indigenous to the Narn homeworld, used as incense in religious ceremonies from '' Babylon 5 '' TV series. The seeds can also be added to alcohol to enhance the intoxicating effect.
- Grass Pokémon - any of the various plant like Pokémon such as Bulbasaur from the Pokémon video game series
- Happy plant - a weed which causes euphoric effects when ingested, from the '' Dinosaurs '' TV series
- Hybernia tree - a tree grown on Paradise Island from '' Wonder Woman '' TV series. The tree is the source of a drug that induced forgetfulness.
- Inkvine - a creeping plant frequently used to whip in the slave cribs in the Dune Universe
- Integral Trees - enormous trees from the science-fiction novel '' The Integral Trees '' by Larry Niven . They are 100 kilometers long and have a leafy "tuft" at each end oriented in opposite directions forming an ∫, the Integral symbol.
- Katterpod - a plant grown on the planet '' series)
- Killerwillows, trappersnappers, wiltmilts, berrywishes, pluggyrugs, snaptrap trees an others - from ''Hothouse'' by Brian Aldiss
- Kite-Eating Tree - a tree featured in the Comic Strip '' Peanuts ''
- Krynoids - extraterrestrial carnivorous plants in episode ''The Seeds of Doom'' from '' Doctor Who '' TV series
- Kyrt - a plant harvested only on the planet Florina in Isaac Asimov 's '' The Currents Of Space ''. It is grown for its fibers finer than the most delicate synthetics and stronger than any steel alloy.
- '' 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.
- 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 cretures from '' The Legend Of Zelda '' series of Video Games
- Peya - a bush with edible roots from '' Rocannon's World '' by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Piranha Plants - plants with mouths from the '' Mario '' series of video games
- ''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 Plant s - 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 - from the novel '' The War Of The Worlds '' by H. G. Wells
- Rroamal - dangerous creeping parasite vine, from ''Decision at Doona'', by Anne McCaffrey
- Rytt - vinelike carnivorous plant from ''War Against the Rull'' by A. E. Van Vogt
- 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
- ''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 sproting 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 ''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 '' Sesame Street ''
- Supox Utricularia - a race of kind, sentient plant creatures from '' Star Control '' computer 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.
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- Traversers - giant vegetal spider analogues which spin their webs between Earth and Moon in ''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 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 - from '' Elfquest ''. This plant is 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.
- White Claudia - a plant that grows in lake or river banks from '' Silent Hill '' series. It has long, circular leaves and white flowers. The seeds are used to obtain a highly-addictive hallucinogenic drug.
- Alfirin - bell-shaped golden flower
- Athelas - healing plant with long leaves (also known as ''Kingsfoil'' or ''Asëa Aranion'')
- Brambles Of Mordor - large, black Bramble s 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
- Bubotuber - thick, black, slug-like plants that extend perpendicularly to the soil. It is normal for them to squirm and they are covered in Pus -filled swellings.
- Gillyweed - when eaten this plant causes the user to grow Gills and thus become able to breathe underwater. The effect lasts for an hour.
- '' Mimbulus Mimbletonia '' - magical cactus with boils where the spines should be
- 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, possess a series of dark red spiny tentacles - a wizard comedian known to survive for eating this plant for a bet, though still purple. Appears in PC video games as a Venus Flytrap with a tentaculated base - later rendered like a flower with teeth inside the petals.
- Whomping Willow - a large violent magical tree, striking with its branches at those who dare approach it
- Devil's Snare - a vine plant that strangles people and wilts in the sunlight. Harry, Ron, and Hermione find themselves in it on their way to the philospher's stone, as well it strangles a man in St. Mungo's hospital.
- Mandrakes - young tubers look like babies. 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.)
- 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
- 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
- Austras Koks - a tree which grows from the start of the Sun's daily journey across the sky in Latvian Mythology
- Barnacle Tree - mythical tree believed in the Middle Ages to have barnacles that opened to reveal Geese . The story may have started from Goose Barnacle s growing on Driftwood .
- Lotus Tree - a plant in Greek mythology bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness. It may have been real (a type of Jujube (perhaps ''Ziziphus lotus'') or the Date Palm ).
- Man-eating Tree - a mythical tree located in the forests of Madagascar or the jungles of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. This tree is said to have a gray trunk and vinelike stems which eats humans and other large animals. Often mentioned in tall tales.
- Moly - a magic herb in Greek mythology with a black root and white blossoms
- Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary - a mythical plant supposed by medieval thinkers to explain the existence of Cotton
- Yggdrasil - the World Tree of Norse Mythology
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