History Main / FantasticFruitsAndVegetables

* The ''KingdomHearts'' series has thestar-shaped Paopu fruit, which supposedly links the destinies of those who share one.

* ''ChangelingTheLost'' features Goblin Fruits, fruits that grow only in [[TheLostWoods the Hedge]]. The fruits range in appearance from "like typical fruit, only in slightly off colors" to "resembling everything from roughly-carved human heads to icicles to ovaries." Most of them have a beneficial effect on changeling metabolism, allowing them to heal damage, but a good number of the fruits have side effects, such as increased alertness, unceasing hunger, guaranteed fertility, or the temporary ability to understand any spoken language.

* {{Toriko}} is built on this trope and others like it.

* The fruit of the lotus tree in GreekMythology, which caused both sleepiness and addiction.

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** Heck, there's even Pokemon who are fruits or vegetables:Exeggecute, Sunkern, Seedot, Ludicolo, Tropius (technically its banana beard), Cherubi, Cherrim, Whimiscott (based on the cotton plant as well as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]]), Ferroseed and Ferrothorn (if horse-chestnuts are considered as "fruit").

** Heck, there's even Pokemon who are fruits or vegetables: Oddish, Exeggecute, Sunkern, Seedot, Ludicolo, Tropius (technically its banana beard), Cherubi, Cherrim, Whimiscott (based on the cotton plant as well as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]]), Ferroseed and Ferrothorn (if horse-chestnuts are considered as "fruit").

** Heck, there's even Pokemon who are fruits or vegetables: Oddish, Exeggecute, Sunkern, Seedot, Ludicolo, Tropius (technically its banana beard), Cherubi, Cherrim, Whimiscott (based on the cotton plant as well as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]], Ferroseed and Ferrothorn (if horse-chestnuts are considered as "fruit").

** Heck, there's even Pokemon who are fruits or vegetables: Oddish, Exeggecute, Sunkern, Seedot, Ludicolo, Tropius (technically its banana beard), Cherubi, Cherrim, and Whimiscott.

* ''RosarioToVampire'': the monster Durian in Capu 2

** Heck, there's even Pokemon who are fruits or vegetables: Oddish, Exeggecute, Sunkern, Seedot, Ludicolo, Tropius, Cherubi, and Cherrim.

* The mushrooms from the ''{{SuperMarioBros}}'' series.

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* In ''{{Poharex}}'' there's the Blue Fruit, which grow only in a certain valley, and cause addiction, madness, and eventually paralysis.

* Just about anything the [[{{Hobbits}} Kiwi]] can grow on GalaxyRangers. An episode involved trees that grew nutritious marshmallows.

It should be noted that there are a fair number of real fruits and vegetables that can qualify as very strange, unusual, and exotic. (For example: the Durain, the Buddha's Hand, or the Miracle Fruit.) But of course, they have a slim chance of showing up in fiction due to SmallReferencePools, so you get fictional ones instead.

* RoaldDahl liked these. Snozzcumbers from ''TheBFG'' (which were so disgusting the giants prefered to [[ImAHumanitarian eat children instead]], with the exception of the titular character who [[DefectorFromDecadence put up with the foul taste]]) come to mind.

* {{Discworld}} features the wahoonie, a foul-smelling, earwax-colored root vegetable that can grow up to twenty feet in length. [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] is known as the Big Wahoonie, though the narration claims that [[InsultToRocks not even the wahoonie smells that bad]].