History Main / PlantAliens

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

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' 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.

May cross over with PlantMooks if the characters are treated as disposable cannon fodder. Compare PlantPerson, {{Planimal}}. See also AlienKudzu, which may or may not be a plant.

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Germination}}'': All of the plants.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Certain breeds of Tamagotchi resemble Earth plants, with Kuratchi (a flower Tamagotchi in a flower pot) being one of the earliest-appearing examples.

* "The Lotos Eaters", by Stanley Weinbaum, provides a rare sessile example in the titular aliens. In fact, their immobility is kind of the point. They're a race who wholeheartedly disbelieve in free will or life having any meaning -- and if you hang around them long enough, they'll telepathically convince ''you'' of it, too, pulling you over a DespairEventHorizon so that you [[EnthrallingSiren no longer think it's worth the bother to get up and leave their territory]]. When one explorer starts succumbing to this effect faster than the other, the first has to practically drag the second out of range of the creatures' telepathic influence.

Aliens aren't just made of meat. Whether dumb, talkative or even singing, plant-based aliens have been a staple of movies, films and TV for decades. There are even a few based on fungi, which are just as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessile sessile]], despite being very different from plants. They're actually much more closely related to animals, but if you've got walking talking mushrooms, why worry about a little thing like that?

** 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. [[{{Understatement}} 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.

May cross over with PlantMooks if the characters are treated as disposable cannon fodder. Compare PlantPerson, {{Planimal}}.

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* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Technically not an alien, as it was created by a MadScientist like everything else, but the Morbuzahk, a sentient, EldritchAbomination-style plant that tries to take over Metru Nui, probably qualifies. There's also its prototype the Kharzhani (not to be confused with the ancient EvilOverlord it was named after).
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* ''WebOrigina/OrionsArm'' has several examples of [[UpliftedAnimal "provolved"]] plants.

* ''Literature/RodAlbrightAlienAdventures'' series includes a sentient plant named Phil among its crew. (Phillogenous esk Piemondum, in full.) He looks just like a giant flower in a floating pot and speaks by 'burping' air through his pods. When the main character expresses astonishment that a plant could talk, he responds, "You're made of meat. It's a wonder you can think at all." Which is also a ShoutOut to [[Literature/TheyreMadeOutOfMeat this story]].

* One side story of ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' features a plant vampire which only reason for existence 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.]])

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': 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".

** "Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness" features an alien race sometimes called the "fungi from Yuggoth". They are not true fungi, though; that's just the nearest comparable Earth organism. In appearance they are somewhat crustacean with membranous wings, their bodies quickly dissolve after death, they are capable of human speech after surgical alteration, and the material they are made of does not appear in photographs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'': While not "aliens" ''per se'', the [[OurElvesAreBetter Wuts]] are revealed to be plantlike in more than just their green and vaguely leafy-looking appearance. In one episode, we see a yellowish and aged-looking Wut step into a pool of water... and in the time it takes to pan to the water and back to his face, he becomes recognizable again as one of the main characters.

** ''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).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'': While not "aliens" per se, the [[OurElvesAreBetter Wuts]] are revealed to be plantlike in more than just their green and vaguely leafy-looking appearance. In one episode, we see a yellowish and aged-looking Wut step into a pool of water... and in the time it takes to pan to the water and back to his face, he becomes recognizable again as one of the main characters.

** The Cotati are intelligent, telepathic alien trees.

** A[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] features bipedal, talking plants that evolved from trees in the Brazilian rainforest. However, in appearance they're more like RubberForeheadAliens -- or, in Jabe's case, a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe. They have concealed tentacles ("I'm not supposed to show them in public"), and consider being breathed on a rather "intimate" gift. "There's more where that came from."

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' episode "The Man-Eater of Surrey Green" features a giant plant that's using psychic powers to control a team of scientists to help it spread its seeds across the world. It then eats them all, as is its wont. The episode also features a baffling off-hand reference to forests on the moon.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': One episode features an invasion by broccoli-shaped aliens. With their parents captured, the children of Townsville resorted to eating the intruders, at the [=PPGs=] behest. (Obviously, the {{Aesop}} to be learned here was to eat your vegetables... but hypnosis by eating vegetables was [[BrokenAesop what brought up this situation in the first place]].)
Relish Rampage, a tie-in game, has the Girls them defeating alien pickles.

* ''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).