History Main / GrowsOnTrees

-->'''President:''' The Pleasure Planet, huh? I hear they have trees that grow sirloins steaks there.\\

-->'''Hal:''' Wait a second, it does. Then why is it so darn expensive!?

* ''Anime/{{Endro}}'': It is revealed in episode 9 that the magical Cartado cards the characters use are not manufactured, but grown.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In one episode, Bushroot developed a money tree that produced [[CounterfeitCash counterfeit bills]]. While it provided him with endless cash, the real purpose of the bills were that they were like seeds that would turn into vines when placed into safes containing real money; the vines would then carry said safes back to the supervillain[[note]]Bushroot admits he didn't want to do it that way, but the bills produced by his tree didn't last long[[/note]].

* There's also the old legend of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]], known sometimes as Barometz, in Central Asia.

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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': A sword tree shows up as a gag in a print-only bonus strip in the second book collection, ''No Cure for the Paladin Blues''. Roy's sword [[WreckedWeapon was destroyed]] and he's stuck without a replacement because they sold the other magic swords they found in the dungeon. While in the forest, Roy is forced to use a non-magical greatclub due to lack of alternatives, complaining that "swords don't grow on trees" (unlike the club, which is just a stout branch he tore off a trunk). Naturally, the last panel of the page shows the group narrowly missing an encounter with "the world famous sword-growing tree."

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': A sword tree shows up as a gag in print-only bonus strip in the second book collection, ''No Cure for the Paladin Blues''. Roy's sword [[WreckedWeapon was destroyed]] and he's stuck without a replacement because they sold the other magic swords they found in the dungeon. While in the forest, Roy is forced to use a non-magical greatclub due to lack of alternatives, complaining that "swords don't grow on trees" (unlike the club, which is just a stout branch he tore off a trunk). Naturally, the last panel of the page shows the group narrowly missing an encounter with "the world famous sword-growing tree."

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': A sword tree shows up as a gag in an early comic. Specifically, Roy's sword [[WreckedWeapon was destroyed]] and he's stuck without a replacement because they sold the other magic swords they found in the dungeon. While in the forest, Roy is forced to use a non-magical greatclub due to lack of alternatives, complaining that "swords don't grow on trees". Naturally, the last panel of the page shows the group narrowly missing an encounter with "the world famous sword-growing tree".

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[[caption-width-right:300:If only it was this easy...]]

** In some {{Game Mod}}s, this trope appears as crops rather than trees. ''[=IndustrialCraft
=]'' and the SpiritualSuccessor to its crop system, ''Agricraft'', provide various plants that can be mutated from others via crossbreeding and grow small amounts of mineable materials. The requirement is that these plants need to have a block of their respective ores below their soil, whether to grow them or to be obtained via mutation. Ore-producing plants and trees appear in several other mods, usually with similar requirements in terms of needing to be planted on stone, ore or mineral blocks or requiring lava to "water" them.

* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' uses it a lot. [[PrettyInMink Furs are grown]] on fur trees.

-->'''President:''' The Pleasure Planet, huh? I hear they have trees that grow sirloins steaks there.
-->'''Kremmen:''' Yes sir, they're very rare.
-->'''President:''' That's a shame. [[{{Pun}} I like mine well done.]]

* ''Webcomic/ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse'': The miscellanopod trees grow a wide assortment of items in their pods and flowers, such as bacon or weaponry. [[spoiler:Hundreds of years in the future, they're humanity's only source of... pretty much everything, seeing as nearly all of the universe was destroyed long ago.]]

** In ''Ozma of Oz'', Dorothy and co. come upon lunch-box trees in the country of Ev, which contain a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge-cake, a pickle, a slice of new cheese, and an apple. The trees also grow napkins.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4326 Satan grows stripper poles]]. [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4327 Trike feminists object]]. [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4331 This goes on.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' has an episode where Gargamel's mother plants a money tree outside Greedy's house to test his avarice. Although the "money" it produces is actually a confectionery wrapped in golden paper called a "golden goodie", it has the effect of drawing the Smurfs to it and trading what they thought was personally valuable just to have a single piece of the money tree's candy.

* One ''ComicBook/Deadpool'' story had the Korean government use Wade's DNA to splice the powers of other mutants onto their own citizens in horrific experiments that eventually result in total organ failure. After liberating them, Deadpool takes him to Monster City, where they have a demonic tree that can grow replacement organs from their genetic samples on a daily basis.

* The popular bonsai plant ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_plant Crassula ovata]]'' is nicknamed the "jade plant", the "lucky plant" and the "money tree" for its supposed power to bring good financial luck.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' feature Gasha trees, which sprout from Gasha seeds you plant and their nuts bear various useful items.

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8mHraEgflE The Money Tree]] by Creator/NeilCicierega.
* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4648ea2855b5a Deliplants]] are genetically-engineered plants that grow animal products, which is more efficient and ethical than using animals.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In one episode, Bushroot developed a money tree that produced [[CounterfeitCash counterfeit bills]]. While it provided him with endless cash, the real purpose of the bills were that they were like seeds that would turn into vines when placed into safes containing real money; the vines would then carry said safes back to the supervillian[[note]]Bushroot admits he didn't want to do it that way, but the bills produced by his tree didn't last long[[/note]].

* Many Mesoarmerican cultures used cacao beans as currency. The beans, naturally, grow on cocoa trees, and are the main ingredient in chocolate, doubling as PracticalCurrency.