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* ''Fanfic/{{Contraptionology}}'': While under the influence of the Nightmare, Applejack creates a giant dark-leaved, dark-wooded apple tree that embodies the cosmic concept of Constancy. It cannot be altered in any way -- it plainly cannot be cut, uprooted, or moved, but neither does it grow or reproduce. When Ponyville is rebuilt at the end of the story, they simply have to plan the new town hall around it. It also produces a crop of seedless apples each Nightmare Night -- it doesn't grow them, as such; rather, they're just sort of there between one day and the next -- with golden skin and black, chocolate-sweet pulp, which if distilled into cider induces intense nostalgia for good times gone by and the feeling that things would be so much better if they just… stopped changing for a bit.
* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' has [[FantasticDrug smurfnip]], which is the Smurf version of cannabis.

* The ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ShiningAndSweet'' has moondew, whose sap can [[TakenForGranite turn someone to stone]]. For unknown reasons, King Hippo is immune to this plant's effects.

** The wandering spiderweed of the longdark swamp 285 million years post establishment is a parasitic plant that is so thigmotactic that it's capable of climbing around (Albeit at slow scales) and is essentially biologically immortal.

* ''Fanfic/TheFlightOfTheAlicorn'': The badge of courage orchid is a flower found only in remote swamps of the Impenetrable Lands. It can heal almost any injury when eaten, with the caveat that it will only cure ones that were gained nobly.

And yes, while they aren't technically plants, fungi are included here too.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', there are various fantastic plants, such as the mandrake roots that look like human beings and can kill people with their cry, the [[spoiler:gillyweed, that helps Harry breathe underwater]], and the Mimbletonia, Neville's pet plant.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': The Deep Jungle world has an area with flowers that change color depending depending on which spell is cast on them. They turn black if Heartless are nearby and disintegrate if they stay there. You also have to destroy a giant bluish fruit that was apparently attracting Heartless. Wonderland has flowers that drop improved items if you give them a specific item and plants that summon treasure chests if you cast Thunder on them. The [[Franchise/KingdomHearts series]] also has Heartless based on plants.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': In "[[Recap/TheDragonPrinceS3E2TheCrown The Crown]]", the flora encountered in the Moonshadow Forest includes musical lilies and foul-smelling "fart flowers".
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' had dragonberries, which all of the characters loved eating. Also, Dragon Land is loaded with unusual plants in general -- the third season story "A Small Victory" features all of the main characters (and guest Lorca) searching for unusual flowers. The plants seen on the page picture are dande-lions, which can roar like real lions, but otherwise are basically just extremely large dandelions.

In real life, plants are important in nature. They provide oxygen, pollen for bees, food for herbivores and they make your garden look nice.

* ''Fanfic/TheFlightOfTheAlicorn'': The badge of courage orchid is a flower found only in remote swamps of the Impassable Lands. It can heal almost any injury when eaten, with the caveat that it will only cure ones that were gained nobly.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Multiple plants -- voltfruit, numerous wildflowers, swift and endura carrots and fleet-lotus seeds -- and various supernatural species of mushroom provide buffs when cooked into food, ranging from increased strength or physical energy to the ability to withstand elemental extremes.

* ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'': The hallways of the New Republic's headquarters on Coruscant are lined with potted ch'hala trees with transparent bark that, when touched, flare with red ripples that move outward from the point of contact.

* The forest level from ''VideoGame/DragonBlaze2000'' is filled with giant plants larger than the players' dragon steed, and loads and loads of plant-based enemies which can shoot their spores as attacks, from FoulFlower to FungusHumongous and Venus flytraps that can spill bullets.

* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead III'': The Sun, a genetically created plant.

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' is filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful plants, such as glowing reeds shaped like question marks, and trees with spiralling trunks.

* In ''VideoGame/VoyageInspiredByJulesVerne'', the plants on the moon come in a variety of vibrant colours, and all seem to be predatory in nature, and quite hostile to anyone who approaches them. They also seem to be averse to certain types of each other, which the Selenites utilize to be able to walk among them without being attacked.

* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest: Definitive Edition'', the [[BonusDungeon Lost Grove]] features bizarre plants with pulsating globular net structures that would be more at home in a sci-fi film such as ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.
* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the Luma Pools area has fluorescent pink vegetation, which is quite a jarring contrast with the more mundane flora of the rest of the game.
* In ''VideoGame/TangleTower'' Fitz grows unusual plants in the greenhouse, including [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables inedible gem-like fruit]] and exotic and even one-of-a-kind flowers. He attributes it to the unique properties of the lakewater around the manor. A major subplot involves a unique flower he bred to look exactly like Penny.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has plenty of this in the Yaschas Massif, with much of it looking like skyscraper sized grass and weeds, and vines and roots large enough to use as makeshift bridges.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoneRanger1966'': It made use of this in the episode "Forest of Death", in which Tonto has to go after a mad botanist who [[CattlePunk wants to conquer the West with mutant plants he's bred]]. Some of the highlights include: lilies that release clouds of deadly poison when they open, a ''literal'' strangler vine, mangrove trees with hands on their roots that try to drown victims, cacti with instant-death poison on their needles that grow to maturity in seconds, lotuses that spit barbed dart-like seedpods (which grow into new lotuses within seconds of impact), and a [[ManEatingPlant giant, carnivorous flower that almost makes a meal out of Tonto]]. Ironically, the one plant experiment he ''failed'' at was his efforts to breed a PlantPerson: his army of "treemen" turns out to be nothing but hired thugs in thick tree costumes.

** In "Moist Vessel", alien vegetation grows all over the ''Cerritos'' and the ''Merced'' as the ships are being terraformed.

** The IQ plants, which stimulate evolution in animals that eat it. [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr Indigo]] used them to create [[PsychoSerum SIQ]].
** Some of Usopp's Pop Greens become very bizarre plants such as a bush that grows into a wolf and the bulb releases a ''3 meter diameter shock wave''.

* ''Manga/{{Remina}}'': The titular land is covered in bizarre flora and it all wants to murder you. Much like the rest of the planet.
* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Melody Land, Melodytchi's home town, is thriving with plants growing music-related items on them, such as bells and musical notes.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', Kryptonian Blood Bloom Plants vaguely look like a rounded Earth cactus, but their buds are made from a hard crystalline substance, and they secrete inflammable fluids.

* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', the world of Roshar is entirely dominated by the massive Highstorms, violent hurricanes which every few days scour the land to bare rock. In the face of this, Roshar's vegetation has become more analogous to coral or sea anenomes than terrestrial vegetation, extending leaves or tendrils when the weather is fair and then retracting them when danger threatens. For another example, the main food grain of Roshar is something called lavis, which, instead of growing a head of grain the way terrestrial grain does, possesses a head-sized shell of stone-like substance within which the grains grow, suspended in a sand-like medium.

* {{Planimal}}: Plant/animal chimeras.