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* ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' has Mandora Boy, a living mandrake who gives advice to the Magirangers

In a story, they are usually a NatureHero, or at least have great value in nature. They may also be a hermit or sage that advises the heroes. In extremes, they may be a KnightTemplar of an eco terrorist... that can [[WhenTreesAttack call killer trees]] on a whim and [[GreenThumb snare you]] [[TentacleRope in vines]], all while making their [[TheLostWoods lost forest]] [[ClosedCircle inescapable.]]

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* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Groot is a [[PlantAliens tree-shaped alien]]. He's enough of a plant to be able to [[spoiler:regrow entirely from a small cutting after the rest of his body his destroyed, although the new Groot has none of his predecessor's knowledge or memories, and ''WordOfGod'' has said he should be regarded more as the original Groot's [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy son]] than Groot ressurected]].

[[caption-width-right:215:The Swamp Thing and his wife, [[MulticoloredHair Abigail Arcane Holland]].]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDsRp0EfbA The Mandrake]]: In this short film, a witch tries and fails to grow a mandrake to use as an ingredient, so she hires a farmer with a green thumb to do it for her. The farmer is shocked to find a plant that looks and acts like a child, and ends up growing attached to it.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', that part of the wood elf army which isn't {{Fragile Speedster}}s is composed entirely of plant people, ranging from dryads (human-sized, spikey, made of wood) to tree-kin (the spirits of dead Wood Elves inhabiting bodies built out of dead wood and branches) to {{tre|ants}}emen (like dryads, only much bigger). In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', the wood elf army has been split in two, with the plant people now their own army, the "Sylvaneth", with the actual elves being renamed "The Wanderers".

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: The Earth Carnival'' episode 16, the gang worries when a rainforest-themed carnival attraction has become lifeless. A specific girl who was working at the attraction deciding to leave was the cause, and when the gang finally finds her, they discover she's an anthropomorphic flower who left because she was worried about trees in the nearby rainforest being cut down.

** The mutant criminal Black Tom Cassidy, partner of ComicBook/TheJuggernaut, became one for a while. After doctors treated his wounds with a wood-like substance, a combination of a genetic virus and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s mutated cells made his body nearly all plant matter. This benefitted Tom's mutant powers immensely, seeing as he had to amplify them through wood, and he was more powerful than ever before. Sadly, he was eventually driven insane from the change, and committed many murders in this form, including a young boy until the change was undone by M-Day. (He didn't lose his regular mutant powers, but his now-former friend the Juggernaut convinced him to turn himself in.

* ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'': Viktoria initially appears human but is actually a dryad of some sort, able to create long stabbing/entangling vines from her fingertips, and has bark-covered skin and glowing red eyes. She's one of the heads of the Pagans and all of them have a huge affinity for plants and wild things.

*** When she first appeared in the comic books, she was merely a murderous seductress with a plant motif. Later on, she took on the persona of an "eco-terrorist" with a little mad scientist thrown in. In current comics continuity, Poison Ivy has been physiologically part-plant since The Floronic Man's initial experiments. Initially, she only had to ability to exude plant-based poisons from her own body and was immune to all poisons. Through the years, she has developed the ability to control plants (size, shape and movement and, occasionally, behavior if one of her hybrids has a level of sentience) and her physiology has changed dramatically so that she now resembles a plant, down to the fact that her costume, once a leafy one-piece bathing suit, now consists of her own leaves]] arranged in an acceptable fashion on her body. She exhibits more or less plant-like qualities depending on the artist, but these qualities are generally constant. In ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', she is described as having a link to a mystical/elemental being called "The May Queen", but this is rarely mentioned. A link to a force (much like the Speed Force in Franchise/TheFlash) called "The Green" is implied as well, and she can use this to communicate with others over long distances via plants.

** Lalamon is a rotund humanoid sprout who can fly by [[HeliCritter spinning the leaves on its head]]. It evolves into Sunflowmon, a bipedal sunflower with long, three-fingered arms, leaf wings, a sunflower blossom for a head and a wide mouth full of sharp teeth. Sunflowmon then evolves into Lilamon, another flower fairy whose arms and legs are simply long, tapered flower blossoms, and then into Lotusmon, a purple-skinned woman with a headdress based on a lotus fruit. In ''Anime/DigimonSavers'', however, Lilamon evolves into Rosemon instead.
** In ''Anime/DigimonSavers'', Rosemon gets an EvilCounterpart in [=BioLotusmon=], a Digimon identical to Lotusmon except that her headdress is green instead of purple and the petals on her staff are purple instead of rainbow-colored.

* ''ComicBook/CaballisticsInc'': During a mission, Hannah is captured by a female earth spirit who is rooted in a tree's vines underground. Naturally, [[GaiasVengeance she thinks humanity should be wiped out]].

The [[VisualPun Plant Person]] is a bridge between the Plant and Animal Kingdoms, being able to talk to plants (or at least understand them at an [[TheEmpath empathic level]]) and people alike. Their wisdom can be profound and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]], coming as it does from a plant rather than animal (let alone human) point of view. Biologically, he or she is either a motile plant or a person with a lot of plant-like characteristics: they may be able to photosynthesize their own food, drink water from their feet, and even [[HealingFactor regrow severed limbs]]. If they lean more towards the animal, they probably still need to eat (which they logically would, as photosynthesis in real life doesn't provide enough energy for a motile lifestyle), but it may be "nutrients" or dirt rather than cheeseburgers (though they just might; hey, at least it [[ManEatingPlant isn't people]]).

* ''WesternAnimatin/PJMasks'': Season 5 introduces Orticia, a young plant-girl with GreenThumb powers, created out of a seed by Romeo. She is actually based on a similar character from the original picture books.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100330.html Mr. Geranium]] is a particularly ridiculous example. He's literally a potted geranium who gained sentience and superpowers in a [[FreakLabAccident freak accident]]. Probably the single most absurd element in the comic, he's only appeared once since his introduction.

* In [[TabletopGame/MutantYearZero Mutant: Year Zero]], Mutants can have one of two plant themed powers, one simply called Human Plant and another called Spores. With Human Plant you can get nourishment from sunlight; with a body that has bark-like skin, which is also covered in sharp thorns that you can use in close combat. Whilst with Spores, PCs have hidden spore sacs on their bodies that are capable of spraying spore clouds against targets in a near distance. The spores can also be used irritate a victim’s eyes to blindness and cause their skin itch with a rash. They also stink so horribly that the victim chokes or suffers severe nausea. But the cloud of spores can also help obscure you and escape from a conflict.

The Plant Person is a bridge between the Plant and Animal Kingdoms, being able to talk to plants (or at least understand them at an [[TheEmpath empathic level]]) and people alike. Their wisdom can be profound and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]], coming as it does from a plant rather than animal (let alone human) point of view. Biologically, he or she is either a motile plant or a person with a lot of plant-like characteristics: they may be able to photosynthesize their own food, drink water from their feet, and even [[HealingFactor regrow severed limbs]]. If they lean more towards the animal, they probably still need to eat (which they logically would, as photosynthesis in real life doesn't provide enough energy for a motile lifestyle), but it may be "nutrients" or dirt rather than cheeseburgers (though they just might; hey, at least it [[ManEatingPlant isn't people]]).

They can usually claim without irony that they are "one with nature", living in forests and surrounded by life. They might be a mystical Dryad, a [[FreakLabAccident scientist who fell into a vat of chemicals]] ([[Comicbook/SwampThing or a mystical plant god who thinks he did]]), or a race of motile plants that just happens to look [[HumanAliens very human]] by accident, by [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith design]], or by ''[[EvilutionaryBiologist des]][[MixAndMatchCritters ign]]''. Despite generally having a human shape, they may or may not be able to casually pass for human. This is because they tend to have green or barky skin, leaves for hair and dress in {{Garden Garment}}s and/or plant-themed {{Clothing Appendage}}s. Interestingly, there is a big disparity between male and female plant people, as the page image shows. Perhaps stemming from the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical]] Dryad, plant people [[OneGenderRace tend to be women]], and ''very'' [[CuteMonsterGirl attractive]] ones at that. Men, on the other hand, take more after trees than humans.

* MushroomMan: A humanoid (or at least intelligent being) based off of fungi. Fungi are not plants, but fiction still treats the two groups as interchangeable often enough for them to fit here.