History Main / FantasticFruitsAndVegetables

* ''Videogame/{{Littlewood}}'': About half of the vegetables and all fruits are completely fictional species that seem to serve the purpose of reminding the player that the game is taking place in a fantasy setting.

See also MagicMushroom, HealingHerb, MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' features different types of giant ManEatingPlant, which produce fruit to lure in their prey; Team Touda actually manages to retrieve some of said fruit, which they then cook into a tart. A footnote mentions that different kinds of plants produce different fruit: the digestive types' are juicy and sweet, while the fertilizer types' are dense and full-flavored.
** In a later chapter, it's shown that pollinated [[PlantPerson dryad]] flowers later turn into pumpkin-like fruits with human faces on them. [[NightmareFetishist Laios]] is appropriately excited to eat them and Marcille is equally and appropriately freaked out.

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', pollinated [[PlantPerson dryad]] flowers later turn into pumpkin-like fruits with human faces on them. [[NightmareFetishist Laios]] is appropriately excited to eat them and Marcille equally appropriately freaked out.

* Any ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series game that allows you to own an orchard.

* ''{{Website/Subeta}}'' has the Ikumoradeekanox tree, which itself is kinda bizarre-looking. (Blue bark with white spots, no leaves to speak of) Once a day, you can pick a fruit from it. Sometimes the fruit is mundane and familiar, but more often it's a very weird fruit. (You don't get to choose which fruit it is, though; it's random.)

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has mostly mundane plants such as bilberries, but a few unusual ones turn up, most notably underground crops such as the subterranean mushrooms known as plump helmets, the cloth-providing pig tails, or dimple cups, which can be ground into dye.

* ''Webcomic/TheLydianOption'' features both a cafeteria full of "cross-nutritional" foods for multiple species and a highly addictive alien fruit.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' has nothing but these.
* Anything the [[{{Hobbits}} Kiwi]] can grow on ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]''. An episode involved trees that grew nutritious marshmallows.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', among the gifts given to Fry after he leaves the Planet Express to sleep in Bender's apartment is a miniature fruit salad tree offered by Leela. Fry picks a tiny banana among the half-inch sized fruits, eats it, and tosses the skin on the floor ([[BananaPeel which Amy promptly slips on]]).

* Much of the action in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Family Appreciation Day" involves the Apple family being busy with the harvest of Zap Apples, a magical breed of apple that sprouts delicious rainbow-colored fruit... fruit which only grows following a series of ominous-looking signs, and which disappears not long after if it's not picked as soon as possible.

* The world of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Land of MixAndMatchCritters such as platypus-bears and wolfbats, apparently also has "tomato-carrots."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' briefly showed "Cucumber-quats" (presumably a cucumber/kumquat hybrid).

* Westernanimation/TheSimpsons once managed to create tomato/tobacco hybrids. They looked like tomatoes, but where brown on the inside and highly addictive. Every plant save one was eaten by local wildlife and the last one ended up in the hands of the tobacco industry. They really did appreciate it though.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' have smurfberries, which are red in the cartoon show, but in [[Film/TheSmurfs The Sony Pictures]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 live-action film series]] are blue.

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* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has senzu beans, which can instantly satisfy the appetite of even the [[BigEater biggest eaters]] and will recover the stamina of those who eat them, as well as immediately heal all injuries bar amputation. ''Anime/YoSonGokuAndHisFriendsReturn'' introduces Chichi's grateful radish, a seed that can spout into hand-sized vegetables overnight but will root itself in the ground so hard regular humans can't even remove the smallest sprouts, and they can grow their roots to extend to the base of a mountain.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': the devil fruits that give eaters superpowers, with the side effect of removing the ability to swim.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': the monster Durian in Capu 2.
* One chapter of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' features Giroro and his brother Garuru butting heads with a giant killer space yam.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is built on this trope and others like it.
* Not used for laughs in the manga ''Manga/SugarDark'' where one of a series of monstrously sized, practically unstoppable undead EldritchAbomination called "The Dark" had been buried under a tree, tainting and mutating its growing fruits with its essence. The adorable, yet horribly {{woobie}}ish {{Moe}}, Meria, ate one of the fruits of the tree and absorbed its power, turning her into a creature with ResurrectiveImmortality whom members of the {{Masquerade}} use to lure the "The Dark" into killing and torturing her in various ways before they become incapacitated by the upcoming sunlight and buried into the ground, which is the only way of sealing them off from harming humanity.
* In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', the travelers (all from different worlds), are arguing in a marketplace over what a particular fruit is. Said fruit looks like an apple, but when someone begins describing an apple, someone else says, "isn't that a ''raki'' seed?", which sets off another character declaring what his perception of an apple is. Not surprisingly, the fruit stand owner tersely asks them if they want to buy the fruit, or just argue over it, prompting Mokona to respond, "Want it!", and swallowing the apple, ending the discussion.

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Tohru uses several bizarre fruits and vegetables from the other world when trying to make the perfect omelette rice. She also gets a hold of a fruit that sprouts teeth when bitten into (and in the anime, tries to kiss people) during a cook-off with Kobayashi.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'', there's a plant that resembles giant corncobs sprouting out of the ground. When Granny sets the grass near it on fire, the giant kernels start to pop from the heat, and its cobs shoot up into the sky like a GasCylinderRocket before exploding like fireworks.

* The shuura fruit appears in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones''. It is more an example of CallARabbitASmeerp, since it's basically a pear.

* ''The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales'' by Frank Stockton: the story ''Christmas Before Last'' has the Fruit of the Fragile Palm. It's similar to a coconut, but the inside is so delicious that it's worth as much as diamonds or pearls.
* Dayig fruit, from ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn''. The main character's uncle uses it to pose a sort of personality test to a hunting party: The fruit is absolutely delicious but full of tiny, poisonous seeds. Would you risk trying it? [[spoiler:Later subverted: the seeds aren't poisonous at all, and he was just playing mind games with the group.]]

* ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'':
** Zalkatian ''Clamdas'', Betazoid ''Hilrep'', ''Horvas'', Andorian ''Vithi'', many, many more.
** ''Literature/StarTrekTitan - Taking Wing'' speaks of ''kheh'', a Romulan grain.

* There's a ''lot'' of these in ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'', mostly having properties derived from bad puns (explosive cherry bombs, etc). Weaponized by one character whose magic talent is conjuring fruit.

* In the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' series, {{alchem|yIsMagic}}ists produce a variety of these for various practical and [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] purposes, like an orange tree whose fruit is naturally infused with brandy.

* ''Literature/AkataWitch'': Plants touched by the SpiritWorld are popular for cooking in Leopard Person MagicalSociety. "Tainted peppers" are a favourite for soup, despite their tendency to explode or {{Curse}} the eater if prepared improperly.
* ''Literature/TheBible'' describes two fruit trees existing in the centre of the Garden of Eden, called the 'Tree of Life' and the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil'. In the story of Adam and Eve, eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is what gets the first humans kicked out of the garden, may have been the origin of humanity's tendency towards sin, and also [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking causes Adam and Eve to develop a nudity taboo]]. The fruit of the Tree of Life, meanwhile, apparently extends the life of anyone who eats it, so after humanity falls to sin God puts guards in the garden to prevent any humans getting to the tree and gaining the means to live forever.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has several mentioned in passing, usually as [[EyeOfNewt potion ingredients]]: shrivelfigs, gurdyroots, and dirigible plums (which [[CloudcuckooLander Luna]] wears as earrings).

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': in the episode with the radioactive vegetable seeds, the castaways plant them, then are surprised at the shapes of the vegetables when they harvest them, including udder-shaped carrots, pretzel-shaped beans, and corn rings.

* ''TabletopGame/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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': In a side story in ''Intersteller Wars'', one spacer visits a planet that is unique as a garden world that can instantly evolve its life to fit any new change. The spacer eats a local fruit and finds it delicious but shocks a local farmer who told him it had been poisonous the day before.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has a wide variety of fruits simply known as "berries" since their introduction in generation II. Since generation III, they have {{Punny Name}}s and odd appearances and mysterious properties like the titular {{Mons}}. These mainly serve as the main food source for most Pokemon.
** Most of the fruit that these Pokemon berries are based on aren't really considered berries and a few aren't even considered "fruit", such as the Drash berry, an E-reader only berry which is based on a radish, a root vegetable. In the games, their properties range from simply being ingredients in Pokemon food, curing status ailments like poison or burns, raising happiness (while decreasing certain stats) to granting one-time stat boosts in battle. A few of the stat-boosting berries are apparently so rare that they're only available from getting 100 consecutive wins from post-game battle facilities (which are famous for being [[NintendoHard downright brutal to players]]) or only held by certain event-only Pokemon in promotions. This would put them on par with [[TooAwesomeToUse Master Balls]], but there's often a way to farm berries in games from Gen III and beyond. In [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Alola]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Galar]] different kinds of berries even grow on the same tree.
** 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[[note]]if horse-chestnuts are considered as "fruit". However, they're equally based on the durian[[/note]], Bounsweet, Steenee, and Tsareena.
** There are also a series of inedible fruits in the Johto region called apricorns that served as the invention of the first Pokeball.
*** In the remakes, apricorns can be juiced, and the juice fed to Pokemon to improve their Pokeathelon stats.
* The fire flower from the ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros'' series, which gives Mario the power to throw fireballs. ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros3'' has a leaf that grants Mario tanoonki powers and ''Videogame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' has an ice flower, which lets him freeze enemies.

* Any ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series game that allows you to own an orchard.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' has life fruits, which give the Sim who eats one an extra day of life, flame fruits, which aren't actually on fire but do give you a warm fuzzy feeling just by carrying it around, and plasma fruits, which [[VegetarianVampire re-fills a vampire Sim's Thirst motive]].

* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' games have, in addition to the usual selection of apples, bananas, etc., a pair of recurring fictional fruits called "kirima" and "amango".
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games seem to have these when there's a Chao-raising virtual pet minigame. In the original ''Sonic Adventure'', at least, you have [[RougeAnglesOfSatin cubicle]] fruit[[note]]misspelled that way in every game that names it, presumably intended to be "cubical"[[/note]], triangle fruit, and round fruit, and then more special ones like Chao fruit [[note]]shaped like Chao heads, increases a Chao's normal stats for every bite[[/note]], and heart fruit [[note]]pink and heart-shaped, makes a Chao fertile and interested in breeding with other Chao[[/note]]. There are also the mushrooms, which increase the hidden intelligence and luck stats and look suspiciously like Mario 1-Up mushrooms.
* Delicious Fruit, which, like everything else in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', try to kill you. [[MemeticMutation They're more like giant cherries, really]]. And people ''do'' apparently eat them, though they have to be harvested with sticks from a distance and boiled three times to remove the poison.
* in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and its spinoffs there are the Banora White or Dumbapple fruit which looks like an apple but is purple and has no growing season.
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series has Gysahl Greens, which Chocobos eat. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', it's implied that humans can safely eat them, too. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' also has cactus fruit and an otherwise-undefined undefined "succulent fruit" as loot.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the fruit most people eat is a mutant plant called a mutfruit. The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' DLC ''Point Lookout'' features the Punga fruit, which the local tribals cultivate, worship, and trade.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has mostly mundane plants such as bilberries, but a few unusual ones turn up, most notably underground crops such as the subterranean mushrooms known as plump helmets, the cloth-providing pig tails, or dimple cups, which can be ground into dye.
* The ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' franchise has Wumpa fruit, Crash's TrademarkFavouriteFood. They appear to be a cross between apples, peaches, and mangoes and have purple (or yellow) juice. In most games, [[LawOfOneHundred collecting 100 of them]] will grant Crash an extra life, and in others, they refill his health bar. Even more bizarrely, they're also used by Crash as pretty painful EdibleAmmunition.
* In ''VideoGame/WildArms3'', healing items are various fruits and vegetables, and extremely rare until you get access to a garden, which allows you to grow all you like.
* ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher'' has a number of different fruits and vegetables you can feed to your slimes, and all are pretty bizarre (except for the carrots). Heart-shaped beets, pears with spikes, mint-flavored mangoes, metallic parsnips, lemons that exist partly out of phase with our reality...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' have smurfberries, which are red in the cartoon show, but in [[Film/TheSmurfs The Sony Pictures]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 live-action film series]] are blue.

** A variety of wild forage, including various kinds of fruit, herbs, flowers, and mushrooms, provide buffs when cooked into food that can include instantly restoring stamina, making Link stronger, or making him resistant to intense cold, burning heat, and electricity.

** Voltfruit, the various forms of Safflina, and various supernatural species of mushroom provide buffs when cooked into food.
** However, there is one notable {{downplayed}} example. Real-life acorns are technically edible... if you first grind them to a pulp and then put the pulp in a sack in a stream of running water for a week to leach out the extremely bitter tannins. Presumably the acorns in the game are specially bred Hyrulian sweet acorns.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': the monster Durian in Capu 2.

** Ancient Fruit, They're blue-coloured fruits grown from ancient seeds that according to the description have been dormant for aeons, they're the third most valuable crop, and also inedible but can be used to make Jelly or Wine which sells for an even higher price.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has holy beans, which can instantly satisfy the appetite of even the [[BigEater biggest eaters]] and will recover the stamina of those who eat them, as well as immediately heal all injuries bar amputation. ''Anime/YoSonGokuAndHisFriendsReturn'' introduces Chichi's grateful radish, a seed that can spout into hand-sized vegetables overnight but will root itself in the ground so hard regular humans can't even remove the smallest sprouts, and they can grow their roots to extend to the base of a mountain.

* ''Literature/StarWarsGalacticFolkloreAndMythology'' mentions a mythical species of sentient fruit said to be found on the Forest Moon of Endor, which kills unsuspecting Ewoks by dropping onto their heads.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has the Death's Head Tree. Its fruit resembles heads (those of the bodies the tree has eaten) that can spit seeds like bullets.

* Used to {{Squick}}iest effect in the monster list "Dark Menagerie" of the ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands''. Gaurak the Glutton, one of the titans sealed into the land of Scarn by the gods, would offer his most devoted followers tainted greasy melons that turn them into disgusting, greasy folds of fat hardly able to walk and swarming with lard worms that eat anything unlucky enough to suffocate in their folds.
** Similarly, a plant that had been tainted among a corrupted forest by one of the titan's blood after it was felled by the gods, is a gnarled tree covered in fruits with tormented faces on them that corrupts any creature that eats it, making the unfortunate victim willing to defend the tree with their lives. Some particularly vile cults and evil worshipers willingly corrupt themselves by drinking its juice.

** Most of the fruit that these Pokemon berries are based on aren't really considered berries and a few aren't even considered "fruit", such as the Drash berry, an E-reader only berry which is based on a radish, a root vegetable. In the games, their properties range from simply being ingredients in Pokemon food, curing status ailments like poison or burns, raising happiness (while decreasing certain stats) to granting one-time stat boosts in battle. A few of the stat-boosting berries are apparently so rare that they're only available from getting 100 consecutive wins from post-game battle facilities (which are famous for being [[NintendoHard downright brutal to players]]) or only held by certain event-only Pokemon in promotions. This would put them on par with [[TooAwesomeToUse Master Balls]], but there's often a way to farm berries in games from Gen III and beyond.

* ''StarWarsGalacticFolkloreAndMythology'' mentions a mythical species of sentient fruit said to be found on the Forest Moon of Endor, which kills unsuspecting Ewoks by dropping onto their heads.

[[caption-width-right:350: A panel from the 34th issue of ''ComicBook/WhatIf'']]

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has holy beans, which can instantly satisfy the appetite of even the [[BigEater biggest eaters]] and will recover the stamina of those who eat them, as well as immediately heal all injuries bar amputation. ''Anime/YoSonGokuAndHisFriendsReturn'' introduces Chichi's grateful radish, a seed that can spout into hand sized vegetables overnight but will root itself in the ground so hard regular humans can't even remove the smallest sprouts, and they can grow their roots to extend to the base of a mountain.

* Not used for laughs in the manga ''Manga/SugarDark'' where one of a series of monstrously sized, practically unstoppable undead EldritchAbomination called "The Dark" had been buried under an tree, tainting and mutating its growing fruits with its essence. The adorable, yet horribly {{woobie}}ish {{Moe}}, Meria, ate one of the fruits of the tree and absorbed its power, turning her into a creature with ResurrectiveImmortality whom members of the {{Masquerade}} use to lure the "The Dark" into killing and torturing her in various ways before they become incapacitated by the upcoming sunlight and buried into the ground, which is the only way of sealing them off from harming humanity.

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Tohru uses several bizzare fruits and vegetables from the other world when trying to make the perfect omelette rice. She also gets a hold of a fruit that sprouts teeth when bit (and in the anime, tries to kiss people) during a cook-off with Kobayashi.
* ''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'' has nuts that can be pressed for diesel fuel, which the [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai'd]] Japanese high school student main characters use to run their [[TankGoodness Sherman Tank]], at least untill it gets possessed by a cat's ghost and gains a bottomless fuel tank to match the [[BottomlessMagazines magazine]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'', there's a plant which resembles giant corncobs sprouting out of the ground. When Granny sets the grass near it on fire, the giant kernels start to pop from the heat, and its cobs shoot up into the sky like a GasCylinderRocket before exploding like fireworks.

-->'''[[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]''': And when you lick a snozzberry, it tastes just exactly like a snozzberry...

* Dayig fruit, from ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn''. The main character's uncle uses it to pose a sort of personality test to a hunting party: The fruit is absolutely delicious, but full of tiny, poisonous seeds. Would you risk trying it? [[spoiler:Later subverted: the seeds aren't poisonous at all, and he was just playing mind games with the group.]]

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': in the episode with the radioactive vegetable seeds, the castaways plant them, then are surprised at the shapes of the vegetables when they harvest them, including udder-shaped carrots, pretzel-shaped beans and corn rings.

** 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[[note]]if horse-chestnuts are considered as "fruit". However, they're equally based on the durian[[/note]], Bounsweet, Steenee and Tsareena.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games seem to have these, when there's a Chao-raising virtual pet minigame. In the original ''Sonic Adventure'', at least, you have [[RougeAnglesOfSatin cubicle]] fruit[[note]]misspelled that way in every game that names it, presumably intended to be "cubical"[[/note]], triangle fruit, and round fruit, and then more special ones like Chao fruit [[note]]shaped like Chao heads, increases a Chao's normal stats for every bite[[/note]], and heart fruit [[note]]pink and heart-shaped, makes a Chao fertile and interested in breeding with other Chao[[/note]]. There are also the mushrooms, which increase the hidden intelligence and luck stats and look suspiciously like Mario 1-Up mushrooms.

* The ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' franchise has Wumpa fruit, Crash's TrademarkFavouriteFood. They appear to be a cross between apples, peaches and mangoes, and have purple (or yellow) juice. In most games, [[LawOfOneHundred collecting 100 of them]] will grant Crash an extra life, and in others they refill his health bar. Even more bizarrely, they're also used by Crash as pretty painful EdibleAmmunition.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'': in the episode "ForbiddenFruit" one of their newest team members, a techno-organic vehicon with a bat mode named Nightscream, offers the members fruits from a towering organic fruit tree to help their organic components. However, the fruit magnifies their bestial sides that dominates over their robotic minds, turning them animalistic and feral. The maximals are restored when Cheetor (the only one who rejected the fruit out of misguided suspicion of Nightscream) cuts down the tree's trunk.

* Medieval bestiaries contain many bizarre "facts" about both real and mythological animals. One [[http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast1195.htm bestiary]] has the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_goose#Folklore Barnacle Goose]]," a bird that ''grows from a tree hanging by it's beak,'' and ''dies when it falls off if it lands on the ground instead of water.'' As absurd as it sounds, it was mostly perpetuated so people had an excuse to eat geese during fast days.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': {{Invoked|Trope}} offscreen in the ShowWithinAShow ''Wormhole X-Treme'', when Martin Lloyd tells a prop guy to "get some kiwis and spray-paint them green" for a scene, instead of using apples.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Prop Guy]]''': So, now the scene reads, "Colonel Danning walks into the orchard, says 'How like Eden this world is', and bites into a painted kiwi."
* In ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', the fruits of the otherworldly Helheim Forest. They're supernaturally tempting, and the Yggdrasill Corporation has developed Driver belts so that when people wearing Drivers pick the fruit, it turns into something called a Lockseed which then has an image of a mundane Earth fruit on it. Lockseeds can then be used with a Driver to give a person powerful armor based on the fruit it shows. Also related are Invase, creatures of Helheim that eat its fruit, that can be summoned and controlled by Lockseeds but go OneWingedAngel if they eat one of those. [[spoiler:It turns out that the Helheim plant is an ''extremely'' aggressive invasive species; it sprouts up immediately where any spores land and any non-Invase that eats its fruit is immediately mutated into an Invase, which then carries its seeds and can attack and infect other living beings. It's to the point that the forest can qualify as an EldritchLocation, and it's already overtaken at least one alien world.]]

* On ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', [[LethalChef Neelix]] introduces the ''Voyager'' crew to the [[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou nutritious but awful-tasting]] leola root. They never quite forgive him for that.

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