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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': The Cotati are intelligent, telepathic alien trees, and originally pretty inoffensive, responding to the Skrulls' challenge to create something in the Blue Area of the Moon by making a garden so beautiful it outshone the Kree's competing city. The Kree did not take this well. Eventually, in ''{{ComicBook/Empyre}}'', they got sick of being everyone's whipping boys and demonstrated a previously well-hidden dark side.



* Creator/DCComics:
** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'' introduces the Black Mercy, a parasitic intelligent plant which attaches itself to a host and feds from their bio-aura while inducing its victim hallucinations.
** ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': The title character is a disembodied consciousness, who forms his body from the plantlife surrounding him. This works well on Earth, where the flora is just flora, and can be twisted and reshaped with impunity. When he lands on an alien planet and is surrounded by sentient plants, it's outright BodyHorror the way they're twisted and crammed together to form the body of a giant space alien. For the record, said planet was the homeworld of the plantlike [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Comicbook/GreenLantern named Medphyll (who arrives to reason with Swampy).
** Jason [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Woodrue]], a.k.a. the Floronic Man, a foe of Atom and Swamp Thing, occasional ally of ComicBook/PoisonIvy, and [[HeelFaceTurn onetime]] [[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians New Guardian]], is a humanoid who comes from an interdimensional planet populated by a race of dryads, and gained [[WhenTreesAttack a tree-like form]]. His early pre-Crisis Atom stories have him using Earth as a base from which he would try to conquer his homeworld. His alien origin is dropped in the ComicBook/New52, where Jason is now an [[PlantPerson American-born human given a tree-like form]], and is known as the Seeder.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Rykornians are small rhombus bodied male aliens with leaf-like limbs and long silky fibers growing on their faces that are born from husks on large stalks which seem to be the sedentary females of the species and which have long thin leaves they can use as tentacles and "knock out sap".



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** The Cotati are intelligent, telepathic alien trees, and originally pretty inoffensive, responding to the Skrulls' challenge to create something in the Blue Area of the Moon by making a garden so beautiful it outshone the Kree's competing city. The Kree did not take this well. Eventually, in ''{{ComicBook/Empyre}}'', they got sick of being everyone's whipping boys and demonstrated a previously well-hidden dark side.
** ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Groot is a humanoid alien tree.
* One ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' side story features a plant vampire whose only reason for existing is the {{Pun}} topping of a TallTale... when they drive a steak through his heart. (At which point the Galactic Police storms in and busts everybody - probably for being [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus too silly.]])
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' has the Evronians, who first come to life as large fungus-like "spores" before maturing as fully mobile ducklike aliens, and even as adults maintain the ability to turn back in their very resilient spore form when in mortal danger. The enormous reproductive rate coming from their fungal nature, alongside the fact modern Evronians actually ''clone'' said spores, is one of the reasons they are a HordeOfAlienLocusts, as they ''have'' to find new worlds to invade and, after a certain point, [[spoiler:turn into {{Planet Spaceship}}s to divide their numbers by half and go different ways to avoid a genocidal civil war]].
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' featured the Neti, a race of long-lived plant aliens. At least two of them, Ood Bnar and Tra'Saa, became Jedi. Neti resembled bundles of knotted tree roots but had limited shape-shifting abilities, able to alter the actual shaping of their bodies (Tra'Saa, for instance, adopted a CuteMonsterGirl-like appearance, with only her "hair" appearing rootlike).
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsTheHighRepublic'' introduced the Drengir, a sentient, telepathic species of carnivorous plant-like aliens with insatiable appetites and a healing factor powerful enough that bisecting one with a lightsaber was an effective way of causing that Drengir to asexually reproduce. Being exposed to the Drengir could cause other creatures with telepathic abilities, including Jedi, to become enmeshed in their collective mind.

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* Creator/MarvelComics:
** The Cotati are intelligent, telepathic alien trees, and originally pretty inoffensive, responding to the Skrulls' challenge to create something in the Blue Area of the Moon by making a garden so beautiful it outshone the Kree's competing city. The Kree did not take this well. Eventually, in ''{{ComicBook/Empyre}}'', they got sick of being everyone's whipping boys and demonstrated a previously well-hidden dark side.
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''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Groot is a humanoid alien tree.
* One ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' side story features a plant vampire whose only reason for existing is the {{Pun}} topping of a TallTale... when they drive a steak through his heart. (At which point the Galactic Police storms in and busts everybody - probably for being [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus too silly.]])
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' has the
''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': The Evronians, who first come to life as large fungus-like "spores" before maturing as fully mobile ducklike aliens, and even as adults maintain the ability to turn back in their very resilient spore form when in mortal danger. The enormous reproductive rate coming from their fungal nature, alongside the fact modern Evronians actually ''clone'' said spores, is one of the reasons they are a HordeOfAlienLocusts, as they ''have'' to find new worlds to invade and, after a certain point, [[spoiler:turn into {{Planet Spaceship}}s to divide their numbers by half and go different ways to avoid a genocidal civil war]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The story ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'' introduces the Black Mercy, a parasitic intelligent plant which attaches itself to a host and feds from their bio-aura while inducing its victim hallucinations.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
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''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' featured the Neti, a race of long-lived plant aliens. At least two of them, Ood Bnar and Tra'Saa, became Jedi. Neti resembled bundles of knotted tree roots but had limited shape-shifting abilities, able to alter the actual shaping of their bodies (Tra'Saa, for instance, adopted a CuteMonsterGirl-like appearance, with only her "hair" appearing rootlike).
* ** ''ComicBook/StarWarsTheHighRepublic'' introduced the Drengir, a sentient, telepathic species of carnivorous plant-like aliens with insatiable appetites and a healing factor powerful enough that bisecting one with a lightsaber was an effective way of causing that Drengir to asexually reproduce. Being exposed to the Drengir could cause other creatures with telepathic abilities, including Jedi, to become enmeshed in their collective mind.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'':
** The title character is a disembodied consciousness, who forms his body from the plantlife surrounding him. This works well on Earth, where the flora is just flora, and can be twisted and reshaped with impunity. When he lands on an alien planet and is surrounded by sentient plants, it's outright BodyHorror the way they're twisted and crammed together to form the body of a giant space alien. For the record, said planet was the homeworld of the plantlike [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Comicbook/GreenLantern named Medphyll (who arrives to reason with Swampy).
** Jason [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Woodrue]], a.k.a. the Floronic Man, a foe of Atom and Swamp Thing, occasional ally of ComicBook/PoisonIvy, and [[HeelFaceTurn onetime]] [[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians New Guardian]], is a humanoid who comes from an interdimensional planet populated by a race of dryads, and gained [[WhenTreesAttack a tree-like form]]. His early pre-Crisis Atom stories have him using Earth as a base from which he would try to conquer his homeworld. His alien origin is dropped in the ComicBook/New52, where Jason is now an [[PlantPerson American-born human given a tree-like form]], and is known as the Seeder.
* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': One side story features a plant vampire whose only reason for existing is the {{Pun}} topping of a TallTale... when they drive a steak through his heart. (At which point the Galactic Police storms in and busts everybody - probably for being [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus too silly.]])
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Rykornians are small rhombus bodied male aliens with leaf-like limbs and long silky fibers growing on their faces that are born from husks on large stalks which seem to be the sedentary females of the species and which have long thin leaves they can use as tentacles and "knock out sap".
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* ''Anime/SonicX'' has the DyingRace of PlantAliens, who play an important part in Season 3. The notable members include [[LoveInterest Cosmo]] and [[AliensAreBastards the Metarex]].

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* ''Anime/SonicX'' has the DyingRace of PlantAliens, plant aliens, who play an important part in Season 3. The notable members include [[LoveInterest Cosmo]] and [[AliensAreBastards the Metarex]].
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* ''Anime/SonicX'' has the [[DyingRace Seedrians]], who play an important part, notable members including [[LoveInterest Cosmo]] and [[AliensAreBastards the Maverix]].

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* ''Anime/SonicX'' has the [[DyingRace Seedrians]], DyingRace of PlantAliens, who play an important part, part in Season 3. The notable members including include [[LoveInterest Cosmo]] and [[AliensAreBastards the Maverix]].Metarex]].
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': One episode is about a sprawling underground fungi that hypnotizes people into thinking they're in a nice safe place, like a bed in cabin, to immobilize and devour them. It almost gets Mulder and Scully. This plot is based on a news report about a fungus in Oregon that is two miles across and may be the largest living thing on Earth.

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': One episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E21FieldTrip Field Trip]]" is about a [[FungusHumongous sprawling underground fungi fungi]] that hypnotizes people into thinking they're in a nice safe place, like a bed in cabin, to immobilize and devour them. It almost gets Mulder and Scully. This plot is based on a news report about a fungus in Oregon that is two miles across and may be the largest living thing on Earth.
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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsTheHighRepublic'' introduced the Drengir, a sentient, telepathic species of carnivorous plant-like aliens with insatiable appetites and a healing factor powerful enough that bisecting one with a lightsaber was an effective way of causing that Drengir to asexually reproduce. Being exposed to the Drengir could cause other creatures with telepathic abilities, including Jedi, to become enmeshed in their collective mind.
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Corrected the misspelling of "Ood Bnar" as "Ood Briar"


* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' featured the Neti, a race of long-lived plant aliens. At least two of them, Ood Briar and Tra'Saa, became Jedi. Neti resembled bundles of knotted tree roots but had limited shape-shifting abilities, able to alter the actual shaping of their bodies (Tra'Saa, for instance, adopted a CuteMonsterGirl-like appearance, with only her "hair" appearing rootlike).

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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' featured the Neti, a race of long-lived plant aliens. At least two of them, Ood Briar Bnar and Tra'Saa, became Jedi. Neti resembled bundles of knotted tree roots but had limited shape-shifting abilities, able to alter the actual shaping of their bodies (Tra'Saa, for instance, adopted a CuteMonsterGirl-like appearance, with only her "hair" appearing rootlike).
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* ''Chlorophyll'' features the Xyllans, leafy bark-covered humanoids who slip into torpor in locations without sunlight unless they're wearing a solar vest.
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* One ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' side story features a plant vampire whose only reason for existing is the IncrediblyLamePun topping of a TallTale...when they drive a steak through his heart. (At which point the Galactic Police storms in and busts everybody - probably for being [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus too silly.]])

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* One ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' side story features a plant vampire whose only reason for existing is the IncrediblyLamePun {{Pun}} topping of a TallTale...TallTale... when they drive a steak through his heart. (At which point the Galactic Police storms in and busts everybody - probably for being [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus too silly.]])
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has several examples of [[UpliftedAnimal "provolved"]] plants.

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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' ''Website/OrionsArm'' has several examples of [[UpliftedAnimal "provolved"]] plants.
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* ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'': The skrode-riders in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' and ''Literature/TheChildrenOfTheSky'' are part-plant AIs that live just about everywhere in the inhabited galaxy, and turn out to be quite important to the plot.

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* ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'': The skrode-riders in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' ''A Fire Upon the Deep'' and ''Literature/TheChildrenOfTheSky'' ''The Children of the Sky'' are part-plant AIs that live just about everywhere in the inhabited galaxy, galaxy and turn out to be quite important to the plot.
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* ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'': The Mazone are plant-based alien women, blue like Zhaan from ''Farscape'', though they share the long hair of most female Leiji Matsumoto characters.

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* ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'': ''Manga/CaptainHarlock'': The Mazone are plant-based alien women, blue like Zhaan from ''Farscape'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', though they share the long hair of most female Leiji Matsumoto characters.



* Creator/EdmondHamilton: One story is about a man who has seeds from another planet land in his backyard and grow into a green humanoid couple. The problem is, [[spoiler: the human and the girl fall in love with each other, and the alien guy kills the girl the moment he can actually move towards her (they initially have roots)]]. The human goes to live in a desert -- he can't stand green anymore.

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* Creator/EdmondHamilton: One story by Creator/EdmondHamilton is about a man who has seeds from another planet land in his backyard and grow into a green humanoid couple. The problem is, [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the human and the girl fall in love with each other, and the alien guy kills the girl the moment he can actually move towards her (they initially have roots)]]. The human goes to live in a desert -- he can't stand green anymore.
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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' featured the Neti, a race of long-lived plant aliens. At least two of them, Ood Briar and Tra'Saa, became Jedi. Neti resembled bundles of knotted tree roots but had limited shape-shifting abilities, able to alter the actual shaping of their bodies(Tra'Saa, for instance, adopted a CuteMonsterGirl-like appearance, with only her "hair" appearing rootlike)

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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' featured the Neti, a race of long-lived plant aliens. At least two of them, Ood Briar and Tra'Saa, became Jedi. Neti resembled bundles of knotted tree roots but had limited shape-shifting abilities, able to alter the actual shaping of their bodies(Tra'Saa, bodies (Tra'Saa, for instance, adopted a CuteMonsterGirl-like appearance, with only her "hair" appearing rootlike)rootlike).
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* Numbuh Vine in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' (well, more specifically the Galactic KND April Fool's joke video/stealth trailer) is an alien operative who looks like a potted plant turned upside down, and whose full numbuh is the chemical formula for chlorophyll. [[spoiler:She's also the true identity of Numbuh One's girlfriend, Lizzie Devine.]]
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1923 SCP-1923]] is a forest on an asteroid.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1923 SCP-1923]] is a forest on an asteroid.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Hamadryads are sapient plants from the Feywild that can alter their bodies during sleep to gain different abilities and the appearance of their foliage changes as they age from spring to summer to autumn to winter. They existed in the 3rd edition, where they were called "Killoren" and were explicitly a plant-based member of TheFairFolk.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Aartuk are nomadic starfish-like sapient plants that are always battle-hungry.
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Hamadryads are sapient plants from the Feywild that can alter their bodies during sleep to gain different abilities and the appearance of their foliage changes as they age from spring to summer to autumn to winter. They existed in the 3rd edition, where they were called "Killoren" and were explicitly a plant-based member of TheFairFolk.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' have Doraemon and friends being taken to Planet Green, populated by sentient, living plant. Unfortunately, these aliens are hostile and intends to drop a green ''nuke'' on earth to convert our planet into a green world like theirs.

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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' have Doraemon and friends being taken to Planet Green, populated by sentient, living plant.plants. Unfortunately, these aliens are hostile and intends to drop a green ''nuke'' on earth to convert our planet into a green world like theirs.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Used for a brief gag at the end of "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E2BodyLanguage Body Language]]", where it is revealed that a houseplant that Helen had purchased at a market was actually an alien life-form, who proceeds to warp out in front of Colin.

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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Used for a brief gag at the end of "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E2BodyLanguage Body Language]]", where Language]]" when it is revealed that a houseplant that Helen had purchased at a market was actually an alien life-form, who proceeds to warp out in front of Colin.Colin after concluding that there's NoIntelligentLifeHere.
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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Zhaan is a HumanAlien plant. It's for the most part treated as no different from the various other biological quirks of the aliens in the series (we aren't even told until late in the first season). It becomes a plot point in one episode when she starts "budding" and growing more aggressive because her body needs to feed on some animal protein once in a while.

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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Zhaan is a HumanAlien plant. It's for the most part treated as no different from the various other biological quirks of the aliens in the series (we aren't even told until late in the first season). It becomes a plot point in one episode when she starts "budding" and growing more aggressive because her body needs to feed on some animal protein once in a while. She also ''really'' [[TheImmodestOrgasm enjoys]] being out in bright solar light.
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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Used for a brief gag at the end of "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E2BodyLanguage Body Language]]", where it is revealed that a houseplant that Helen had purchased at a market was actually an alien life-form, who proceeds to warp out in front of Colin.

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