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* ''Literature/ImpossibleCreatures2023'': Borometzes are green lambs who grow on stalks.



* ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'': There large stick bug-like beasts that mimic trees and attack animals or people who get to close. They fit this trope because part of their disguise is that they have actual symbiotic plants growing from them.

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* ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'': There are large stick bug-like beasts that mimic trees and attack animals or people who get to close. They fit this trope because part of their disguise is that they have actual symbiotic plants growing from them.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has a few pals that appear to be a cross between a plant and an animal, such as Lifmunk and Tanzee. Notably, the game also answers the question of planimal meat, as some of them like Caprity (a berry bush goat), Broncherry (a cherry sauropod) and Mammorest (a tree-mammoth) drop their meat when killed and can be cooked into dishes. Cooked Caprity meat is even mentioned to be both berries and meat at the same time.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has a few pals that appear to be a cross between a plant and an animal, such as Lifmunk and Tanzee. Notably, the game also answers the question of planimal meat, as some of them like Caprity (a berry bush goat), Broncherry (a cherry sauropod) and Mammorest (a tree-mammoth) drop their meat when killed and can be cooked into dishes. Cooked Caprity meat is even mentioned to be both berries and meat at the same time.time, while Broncherry meat is stated to have nutrients gained from photosynthesis.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has a few pals that appear to be a cross between a plant and an animal, such as Lifmunk and Tanzee. Notably, the game also answers the question of planimal meat, as some of them like Caprity (a berry bush goat), Broncherry (a cherry sauropod) and Mammorest (a tree-mammoth) drop their meat when killed and can be cooked into dishes. Cooked Caprity meat is even mentioned to be both berries and meat at the same time.
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* ''VideoGame/AgainstTheStorm'': The Coral Forest biome contains trees shaped like coral and mussels; cutting down the latter has a chance of yielding meat.
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* ''Literature/ThePlantThatAteDirtySocks'': The titular plants are fully mobile and have displayed learning tendencies.
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Just checked: there's an earlier work


* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': ''The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide'' reveals that the large-rooted mangrove-lookalike gnarltrees of Dagobah has a stage in its life-cycle in which the root part became the mobile, [[ManEatingPlant predatory]] [[GiantSpider knobby white spider]], which is still a plant, [[NonIndicativeName not a spider]] (but is still knobby and white), but does vaguely resemble one (or at least, more than it resembles a tree)

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* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': ''The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide'' ''Literature/TheIllustratedStarWarsUniverse'' reveals that the large-rooted mangrove-lookalike gnarltrees of Dagobah has a stage in its life-cycle in which the root part became one of its roots splits off to become the mobile, [[ManEatingPlant predatory]] [[GiantSpider knobby white spider]], which is still a plant, [[NonIndicativeName not a spider]] (but is still knobby and white), but does vaguely resemble one (or at least, more than it resembles a tree)one. Eventually, once it's eaten enough, the spider plants itself in the ground and [[BizarreAlienReproduction becomes another gnarltree]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'' gives us the [[EldritchAbomination Bog Lady]] from the Season 1 finale "The Uncondemning", a wicked swamp goddess who manipulates plant life and couldn't stand Arlo leaving the swamp for New York. According to Ruff, she has moss hair and leaf skin.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHerbs'', the animal characters all have features modeled after the herb they're named after. Thus, Parsley has parsley leaves for a mane, Dill has a sprig of dill on his tail, Tarragon has spines formed from leaves of tarragon etc.
* ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'' gives us the [[EldritchAbomination Bog Lady]] from the Season 1 finale "The Uncondemning", a wicked swamp goddess who manipulates plant life and couldn't can't stand Arlo leaving the swamp for New York. According to Ruff, she has moss hair and leaf skin.
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** ''Videogame/EarthBound'' has two kinds of Mobile Sprouts, Demonic Petunias, two kinds of Hostile Oak and two varieties of walking mushroom.

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** ''Videogame/EarthBound'' ''Videogame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'' has two kinds of Mobile Sprouts, Demonic Petunias, two kinds of Hostile Oak and two varieties of walking mushroom.
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* Ads for nasal spray Flonase depict giant plant monsters representing common plant allergies (a tentacled flower monster in one and a [[KingKoopaCopy turtle-like]] grass monster in another) menacing a large city, with only one person, who had used the advertised product earlier that day, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight keeping a cool head about it]].

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* Ads for nasal spray Flonase depict giant plant monsters representing common plant allergies (a tentacled flower monster in one and a [[KingKoopaCopy turtle-like]] turtle-like grass monster in another) menacing a large city, with only one person, who had used the advertised product earlier that day, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight keeping a cool head about it]].
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* ''Scranimals'' by Jack Prelutsky is a children's poetry book featuring a whole menagerie of these, which live on their own island out in the sea. Among its offerings are Broccolions, Mangorillas, and [[TheDreaded the detested Radishark]].
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** The [[https://scryfall.com/card/ydmu/18/vinesoul-spider Vinesoul Spider]] is a GiantSpider made out of green vines.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Nexomon}}'', quite a few Plant-type Nexomon look like animals with floral traits. For example: Petril, the game's Plant-type StarterMon, is a bipedal reptile with two leaves growing from its tail, a facial crest made of tree bark, and a neck frill made of large pink flower petals.
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* ''Videogame/{{Beastieball}}'': The Beastiepedia entry of the reptilian Sprecko describes that its whole body is covered in a sort of fungal growth, which also renders it rather sticky.
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* ''Fanfic/KaijuRevolution'': Biollante is an ancient being containing DNA from many plants and animals. In fact, it's theorized that she may be some kind of genetic library for all life on Earth.
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* As it turns out in ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead Speaker'', [[spoiler:every native animal on Lusitania]] is one of these, and they undergo metamorphosis, turning from plant to animal.

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* As it turns out in ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead Speaker'', ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', [[spoiler:every native animal on Lusitania]] is one of these, and they undergo metamorphosis, turning from plant to animal.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* ''WebAnimation/UniverseFallsTheSeries'': In episode 6, Peridot is inspired by meeting Mabel's pet pig Waddles to get Steven to create "Waddlesmelon", a pig-like watermelon creature not unlike the Melon Stevens. The real Waddles looks [[GreenEyedMonster half-jealous]], [[UncannyValley half-weirded out]].

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* ''WebAnimation/UniverseFallsTheSeries'': In episode 6, Peridot is inspired by meeting Mabel's pet pig Waddles to get Steven to create "Waddlesmelon", a pig-like watermelon creature not unlike the Melon Stevens. The real Waddles looks [[GreenEyedMonster half-jealous]], [[UncannyValley half-weirded out]].out.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Lorwolf}}'': The Basidio and Colpach companions have this design. Basidios are toads with poisonous fungi on their backs and Colpach are felines with branches growing out of their heads and backs.
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* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon:''
** The "tentacle" monsters resemble innocuous vines, but according to [[AllThereInTheManual the accompanying guide]], they're actually a type of land-dwelling cnidarian related to jellyfish. Similar to jellyfish, their tentacles are lined with stinging cnidocytes to paralyze their prey.
** The Barometz (or Vegetable Lamb of Tartary) also shows up in a few chapters. It's presented as a play that grows a huge fruit that almost perfectly resembles a sheep from its shoot (an unripened fruit resembles a lamb inside a giant tomato-like rind). However, the "sheep"'s internal organs are all fused together, its bones are brittle, and the flesh tastes like crab. An {{omake}} discusses how vegetarians and meat-eaters disagree on whether it counts as plant or not.


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* The algae species ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorococcum_amblystomatis Chlorococcum amblystomatis]]'' is a noted symbiont of the spotted salamander. It grows in the eggs of the salamander, recycling the carbon dioxide released from the embryo into oxygen and sugar (and also colouring them light green). It's speculated that the algae lays dormant in the salamander's tissues as it grows up until it produces its own eggs and spreads the algae further.
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* In the ComicStrip/{{Moomin}} storyline "Moominvalley Turns Jungle", there's a carnivorous bush that happens to have eyes and legs. Two Hemulens, one a botanist and the other a zoologist, get into an argument over whether it's a plant or animal.

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* In the ComicStrip/{{Moomin}} ''ComicStrip/{{Moomin}}'' storyline "Moominvalley Turns Jungle", there's a carnivorous bush that happens to have eyes and legs. Two Hemulens, one a botanist and the other a zoologist, get into an argument over whether it's a plant or animal.

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* In the ComicStrip/{{Moomin}} storyline "Moominvalley Turns Jungle", there's a carnivorous bush that happens to have eyes and legs. Two Hemulens, one a botanist and the other a zoologist, get into an argument over whether it's a plant or animal.
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