Fictional Plant

Athelas is a fictional healing herb from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, also known as Kingsfoil or Asëa Aranion. It was first brought to Middle-earth by Númenórean, but by the end of the Third Age the knowledge of its healing properties was lost among all but the...

The Whomping Willow is a large, magical and violent tree in the fictional world of Harry Potter. One such tree is known to reside on Hogwarts grounds; it's not known whether this is a unique specimen or a member of a species. The Hogwarts tree is rooted to the spot,...

The Tree-of-Life is a fictional plant (the ancestor of yams, with similar appearance and taste) in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, for which all Hominid have an in-built genetic craving. Consumption of Tree-of-Life makes human-related species turn into Pak...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold that brought light to the Land of the Valar in ancient times. They were destroyed by Melkor and Ungoliant, but their last flower and fruit were made by...

Pipe-weed (also known as Halflings' Leaf) is, in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien the name of a plant, a variety probably of Nicotiana. It was developed by the Hobbit of the Shire, the production of which is a major industry there, especially in the south. Among the...

Tesla Trees are a fictional plant lifeform in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series. They are native to the planet Hyperion. They appear to store up electricity inside their body during certain seasons, releasing all of it in huge arcs of lightning from their crown,...

Chuck the Plant is a mascot of sorts in several of LucasArts' adventure games. Chuck the Plant is first found in the library of Maniac Mansion. It appears to be an ordinary plant, but using the cursor to examine it (or otherwise attempt to manipulate it) reveals that...

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz) is a semi-legend plant of central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit. The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbillical and grazed the land around the plant. When all the...

The red weed (also referred to as the red creeper) is a fictional plant native to Mars in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It is this plant that supposedly gives Mars its dull red colour. It is one of the several types of plants brought to Earth possibly...

Gillyweed is a fictional plant in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. It looks like slimy, greyish green rat tails, and tastes unpleasantly slimy and rubbery, like octopus tentacles. When eaten, Gillyweed causes the user to grow gills and thus breathe...

Ents are a fictional race of humanoid trees from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. They appear to have been inspired by the talking trees of many of the world's folklores (see tree (mythology) for more information). At the time The Lord of the Rings...

Devil's Snare is a fictional plant from the Harry Potter series. It kills its victims by constriction and reacts poorly to fire. It has appeared twice in the series. First, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it was Professor Sprout's protection against the...

The triffid is a highly venomous fictional species of plant that appears to have limited intelligence and survival instincts. It is the titular antagonist from the 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and also later appears in Simon Clark's novel The...