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9	[[caption-width-right:260:A trope with [[{{Pun}}its roots]] in antiquity.]]
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11	-> '''Dendroo \| δενδρόω'''\
12	(vb.) turn/grow into a tree\
13	In the Passive, it means "to be turned into a tree." Used surprisingly often.
14	-->-- ''Ancient Greek Word of the Day, [[http://classicsenthusiast.tumblr.com/post/121255140896/ah-greek-mythology-i-know-thee-well Classics Enthusiast]]''
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16	One of the more extreme ways to get [[InHarmonyWithNature closer]] to MotherNature is to become an actual plant.
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18	This trope goes [[OlderThanFeudalism way back]] to the days of Myth/ClassicalMythology, when turning people into plants was used as both a reward and a punishment by the various [[Characters/ClassicalMythology gods of the pantheon.]]
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20	A Transflormation can be positive, negative, or even neutral under the right circumstances. Becoming a plant may be the result of a ForcedTransformation in which the victim's consciousness is either rendered inert or [[AndIMustScream forced to look on in silence]]. On the other hand, it may instead take the form of a species change from {{Muggle\|s}} to PlantPerson.
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22	It's not unheard of for some trace of the person's physical form to remain after their transformation, [[TheTreesHaveFaces such as a distorted version of their face remaining on a tree trunk]].
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24	Because people tend to associate positive feelings with nature, a permanent transflormation can be an effective way to show that a dying character is "returning to nature" and thereby finding peace and dignity in death.
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26	See also CoolAndUnusualPunishment, TransformationHorror, CurseThatCures, and {{Metamorphosis}}. Compare its sister tropes TakenForGranite (an involuntary stint as statuary) and {{Animorphism}}.
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28	Not to be confused with PlayingATree.
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30	!!Examples:
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34	* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'' has two human background characters who are turned into trees ([[AndIMustScream with their eyes still moving]]).
35	* ''Manga/FairyTail'': At the end of his fight with [[ActionGirl Erza]], [[BloodKnight Azuma]] of Grimoire Heart transforms into a tree partially due to the horrific wound she inflicted on him to finish him off and partially because he burned out his Lost Magic, the [[GreenThumb Arboreal Arc]], during their fight, with him noting this is the price he pays for such power. Despite this, he completes his transformation smiling as [[AGoodWayToDie she gave him the fight of his life]].
36	* ''Anime/FlipFlappers'': [[spoiler:The mother]] of the protagonist wipes out most of the members in [[NebulousEvilOrganization Asclepius]] by turning them into clovers.
37	* ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'': In one episode of the 2018 series, this happens to Nezumi-Otoko, Kiyomi, and Kubota during the initial confrontation with the bamboo people, who were also humans before entering the bamboo thicket.
38	* ''Manga/FoolNight'': Is entirely about people turning into plants. In an earth that has lost it's sun, running low on oxygen, mankind has developed transfloration technology to turn people into plants that survive without sun.
39	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
40	** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Giorno's Gold Experience revolves around this concept, transforming inorganic matter into either animals or plants.
41	** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Once [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent The Green Baby]] begins to take form within the prison's maximum security ward, it starts turning all the nearby prisoners into trees that [[BodyHorror spreads throughout their bodies]].
42	** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Sugar Mountain's Stand, forces someone who failed to use up the items they were given before sunset causes them to be turned into wood and embedded into a tree's bark.
43	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Ryokugyu's Wood-Wood Fruit allows him to transform his body into various plants/wood. He is able to sprout vines and branches from his body like tentacles, which is also how gets his nutrients without eating, simply by using his vines to sap them from various sources.
44	* ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'': One sketch has Pipimi turn into a tree after saying a bad pun.
45	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Hiei has Mukuro's [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] fused with a parasitic plant, making him almost immortal but still able to feel pain, then [[AndIMustScream gives the guy to Mukuro as a present.]]
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49	* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In one story, Donald tricks Fethry into thinking that, if you swallow cherry pits, you will sprout branches and eventually turn into a tree yourself. He sneaks a few twigs into his ears and hair during a conversation to make Fethry think that he's starting to transform, runs off, and dresses a sapling in his sailor suit to make his cousin think he fully transformed. Fethry buys it and, having swallowed a few pits himself, heads off to the botanical garden to find a nice spot to root himself and patiently waits out his transformation. Eventually the trick is revealed, [[EveryoneLaughsEnding everyone has a laugh as the story closes]]... and in the very last panel, [[RealAfterAll a fresh twig pops out of Donald's ear]].
50	* ''ComicBook/DistrictX'': Gregor Smerdyakov's mutant power is slowly transforming into a tree whenever he sleeps. His family prevents this by waking him up and pruning any roots and branches, but they get separated, and he becomes a full-blown tree in the sewers.
51	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': In issue #9 of the original series, a FlashBack to the League's origin (not previously revealed), the heroes all arrived seperately at the site of a strange meteor whose radiation started turning them into trees. Decades later, when an almost entirely different line-up of the League are turned into trees by magic in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueEurope'' #31, ComicBook/MartianManhunter's reaction is "[[CallBack As if once wasn't enough!]]"
52	* ''ComicBook/MarvelTales'': Issue #105 of the early horror title has the story "The Man Who Vanished", in which a businessman goes on vacation to a cabin in the Catskills, but finds it's been taken over by a creepy old hunchbacked man and that the last man who tried to evict him mysteriously disappeared. He chases the old man away and discovers a bizarre human-shaped tree growing on the cabin's porch. The man tries to uproot it but discovers the plant's sap resembles blood... and that there's a strange plant like growth on his arm. The growth eventually spreads over his whole body and changes him into a ghastly plant creature just like the tree on the porch, which he realizes to his horror was once the man who disappeared earlier. His wooden feet than root him to the ground next to the other man-tree, and the old man returns to care for his garden. The last narration box then switches to the POV of one of the plant-beings, [[SchmuckBait begging the reader to come drop by the cabin and get closer to the plants so that they can have company]].
53	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Loki was once punished by Odin by being transformed into a tree [[AndIMustScream for a dozen centuries or so]] until someone shed a tear for him.
54	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': In the fourth issue, Morpheus muses on how {{Hell}} has changed just before coming upon the wood of suicides (as seen in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''). He hears one of the trees say he thought taking pills would stop his pain and notes there were once so few suicides to only take up a grove. Since his last visit, there are so many of them that they make up a forest.
55	* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': In the comic book story "The Little Tree", Lumberjack Smurf finds out that an elf's sister has been turned into an evergreen tree and spares her from being cut down.
56	* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The first-ever comic book adaptation (by Creator/GoldKeyComics) features a planet of [[ManEatingPlant Man-Eating Plants]] which reproduce through spores that can also infect animals and turn them into plants as well. Even worse, they can not only travel through space but also penetrate the hulls of starships like the ''Enterprise''. After the landing party narrowly escapes the planet, during which a RedShirt was transformed, Spock recommends destroying all life on it to prevent the spores from spreading to other worlds
57	* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In the story arc ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'', after being infected with the "Plant Scourge", Supergirl can unwillingly transform any living being near her into a vegetable.
58	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' #30, it's revealed that back in ancient times Aphrodite turned a group of sirens into trees as punishment for their calling sailors to their deaths. One of these trees was cut down and a piece of it carved into a bangle that ends up in the hands of Mona Menise and helps her try to get revenge on Wonder Woman. Diana forces the siren out of the wood with her lasso, showing her true form and revealing she'd been stuck in the tree, and later the bangle for centuries unable to move or communicate while aware of her surroundings.
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62	* ''Animation/GypsyTales'': Near the end of "The Gypsy Woman and the Devil", the devil turns Vunida into a cherry tree for her starving children to eat.
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66	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
67	** In sequel ''Ghosts of the Past'', Ollivander observes that this is often the fate of incautious young wand-makers foolish, arrogant, or plain lazy enough to try and make a bargain with one of TheFairFolk for access to some particularly fine trees or arcane woods.
68	** During the [[BigBadassBattleSequence free-for-all]] at the climax of the sequel's ''Bloody Hell'' arc, Wanda sort of turns Selene into a tree (the 'sort of' is because [[GoodIsNotSoft Wanda]] makes a tree grow up and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through her,]] tearing her to pieces and trapping what remains in the tree). [[HealingFactor Selene being Selene]], this slows her down for a while, but eventually she breaks free by [[ScaledUp turning herself into a dragon]].
69	** In ''Unfinished Business'', [[spoiler: Nimue]] pulls this on [[spoiler: Carol]], turning her into a tree.
70	* In ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'', Fluttershy mutates into a tree in the style of Harold from the game series.
71	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2213336/12/Head-Heart-Soul Head Heart & Soul]]'' when Harry thinks Ron has been killed, he transfigures Voldemort into a tree and makes it permanent.
72	* The ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'' explores the results of this trope with Fluttershy, who spends her summer vacation as a tree and takes a fair bit of convincing to turn back into her old self.
73	* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': ''Second Sun'': Sir Stratus. "He’d been turned into a small shrub by the Lord of Chaos" before being turned back.
74	* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': In the final chapter, Twilight thinks about when she felt protective of her adoptive daughter, about how she was going to deal a ForcedTransformation into cacti:
75	--> Most of all, Twilight thought of the day Nyx got lost in the Everfree Forest because of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Twilight had never been so furious or worried. She was really on the verge of turning those spoiled little brats into cacti.
76	* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': As part of the reason Twilight Sparkle is AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength:
77	--> '''[[spoiler:Discord]]:''' "Well, I imagine that believing one had turned their parents into decorative plant life ''would'' leave something of a scar..."
78	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': A princess stranded in the Faewilds gets turned into a tree by a pair of mischievous fairies, forcing Spectra to challenge them to a game of wits to make them turn her back. Later, one of the same fairies turns badly-wounded Spectra into a tree to give allies time to reach her and provide medical aid.
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82	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' has Doraemon and friends traveling to the Green Planet, a world populated by PlantAliens. At one point, after being captured by hostile tree-men, Doraemon uses his gadget mask to turn the whole gang into tree-people to sneak through tree-men guards. They do revert back to their human forms after a few minutes, though. There's also the discovery of a conspiracy within the Green Planet attempting to drop a plant-based nuke on ''Earth'', triggering an ApocalypseHow with Earth's entire population converted to plants, and the climax revolves around Doraemon and gang trying to prevent this from happening.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': A nymph turns herself into a tree when chased by Phil in reference to the myth of Daphne and Apollo. It's VoluntaryShapeshifting on her part, though: as he comments "They can't keep their hands off me", she indignantly whips him with a branch.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'': Near the end, the Nowhere Man turns the chief Blue Meanie partway into a rose bush.
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88	* ''Film/Annihilation2018'': While inside [[EldritchLocation the Shimmer]], the expedition discovers a field full of plants in the shapes of humans. They're not sure whether they used to be humans or are just [[InvertedTrope plants that grew into that shape]]. While they are near the field, [[spoiler:leaves start to sprout from Josie's arms. She commits suicide by letting herself become one of those plants]].
89	* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', Bobby Joe is captured by the possessed trees in the woods. Next time we see her, her corpse has been embedded in a tree.
90	* ''FIlm/TheFountain'': The conquistador explodes in a burst of grass, tendrils and flowers at the end of his story, mirroring the Mayan creation myth mentioned earlier in the film.
91	* ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'': Whenever [[ManEatingPlant Audrey II]] eats someone, it sprouts a flower with that person's face afterwards. [[spoiler:After it eats Seymour, he becomes a flower that can exchange words with his love interest.]] This is preserved in [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the stage musical]] but left out of [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors the film version of the musical]].
92	* The plot of ''Film/TheRookies'' involves a bioweapon dubbed the "Green Virus" which can cause plants to grow on the skin of humans; prolonged exposure will turn human beings into trees. The BigBad, leader of an EcoTerrorist syndicate, intends to use the virus to "cleanse the earth" by turning the world's human population into plants, and a major scene of the film involves the virus being unleashed into New York, turning much of the populace into tree-people.
93	* A rather horrifying example in ''Film/SpecialSilencers'' (an Indonesian action-horror flick). BigBad Gundar is a murderer who came into posession of pills that turns the victim's internal organs into plants, that he spikes into their food and drinks. More than one onscreen victim has their insides transflormed with branches and roots bursting out their bodies ChestBurster-style. [[spoiler:In the final battle, the hero Hendra managed to force Gundar to swallow the capsule containing the rest of his pills, turning Gundar into a bloody mess of roots as an appropriate KarmicDeath]].
94	* ''Film/Troll2'': The goblins of Nilbog town do this to people [[EvilVegetarian so that they can eat them]], by means of getting them to eat their evil food. Arnold gets turned into a plant thing by the goblins, complete with his own planter. Of course, he mostly just looks like a human with a couple of vines and pieces of bark stuck on, because the movie had NoBudget.
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98	* One of the (many) bad endings from ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle'' have you investigating an Elven fountain in an enchanted garden. Alas, the water is magic, and when it splashes on you, it turns you into a plant.
99	* The ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure '' book "The Magic of the Unicorn" has this as one of its bad endings, even if it's rather AndIMustScream since you're stated to be still able to feel and think.
100	* One book of the ''Star Challenge'' series too, as punishment for messing with [[WhenTreesAttack ent-like aliens]] of the Andromeda Galaxy.
101	* ''Literature/CretanChronicles'': One of the bad endings can have Altheus being punished by getting turned into a bolus tree.
102	* More than one bad ending in ''Literature/YourePlantFood'' have you being transformed into plants, one which is shown on the book's cover. In the story itself you can obtain an antidote to suppress the transformation.
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106	* ''Literature/TheAeneid'': Aeneas finds the kingdom of Polydorus abandoned and overrun by a forest. The Trojans have no idea where all the people could have gone, until one of them breaks off a tree branch and the voice of Polydorus screeches out a warning about this cursed land. Aeneas leaves the tree-man and doesn't come back.
107	* ''Literature/ABadCaseOfStripes'': Downplayed when Camilla sprouts branches at one point.
108	* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'':
109	** Pre-series, Zeus turned his daughter Thalia into a pine tree to save her life. [[spoiler:She gets better, courtesy of the healing powers of the Golden Fleece. The tree remains where it is, but she goes back to being a human.]] On hearing her story in ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Titan's Curse]]'', Percy worries about what ''his'' father, Poseidon, might do in this sort of situation. He guesses he would either end up as plankton or as a floating patch of kelp.
110	** Nico got turned into a dandelion by Persephone due to a "family spat" sometime before "[[Literature/TheDemigodFiles The Sword of Hades]]" and gets turned into a corn plant by Triptolemus in ''[[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus The House of Hades]]''.
111	* ''Literature/TheCourtOfTheAir'': An ancient and evil civilization escaped a terrible disaster by moving underground, and coped with the lack of food by transforming the enslaved majority of its vassal-states' population into plants that lived off the caverns' thermal energy. The elite classes lived off their human "crops", which were helpless to resist or even protest.
112	* ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'': Drinking water from a dreaming spring with a "wicked heart" will turn the drinker into a tree.
113	* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': The seventh circle of Hell contains a twisted forest where each tree contains the soul of a suicide; the souls judged thus are thrown into the forest in the form of seeds, and grow into immobile trees wherever they happen to land. Borrowing from ''The Aeneid'', Creator/{{Dante\|Alighieri}} has no idea the trees are people until he breaks off a branch; then he sees black blood pour out while the voice trapped within the tree finally can let out a horrid scream.
114	* ''Literature/TheDuelOfSorceryTrilogy'': In the third book, Serroi is turned into a tree [[spoiler:as the [[EquivalentExchange price]] of defeating Ser Noris]]. In the subsequent trilogy, ''Dancers'', [[spoiler:she turns back]].
115	* This turns out to be Michael's fear in the first book of ''Literature/TheForbiddenGame''. He believes his fear is silly but after the group almost become plants themselves, the others remark it is just as horrid as everyone else's fears.
116	* In "The Girl Who Loved the Sun", by Creator/DianaWynneJones, the title character ends up as a beech tree; the story is modeled on Greek legends, but with a more English and less Mediterranean ecosystem.
117	* "Green Thoughts", a 1931 novella by John Collier, has an exotic, [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] orchid whose blossoms resemble what it eats (flies at first, then a cat, then its owner); it is thought to have been the inspiration for ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'', above.
118	* ''Literature/TheHouseWithAClockInItsWalls'': At the end of ''The Letter, The Witch and the Ring'', the villain probably falls victim to a LiteralGenie demon she has summoned, and after wishing to be young and beautiful and to live a thousand years... gets turned into a willow tree.
119	* ''Literature/TheImmortals'':
120	** In the second book of the quartet, [[TheArchmage black robe]] Numair manages to change [[DiscOneFinalBoss Book Two Final Boss]] Tristan Staghorn into an apple tree, which is treated as a near-impossible feat. He also mentions that EquivalentExchange is in play and that a tree somewhere else in the world has turned into a man. This was such a WhatHappenedToTheMouse incident that the author addressed it later.
121	** ''Elder Brother'', a short story in ''Literature/TortallAndOtherLands'', starts with an apple tree becoming human, though he retains [[SuperStrength treelike strength]]. He's very confused by this and soon quite upset about the confusing, fast-moving world of animals, but eventually takes the name Qiom.
122	* ''Literature/LandOfOz'':
123	** In ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', Mombi's last-ditch attempt to escape Glinda is to turn herself into a rose.
124	** In the {{backstory}} of ''Kabumpo in Oz'', the Princess of Sun Top Mountain was turned into a tree by the evil magician J. Glegg when she refused to marry him.
125	* In ''Literature/MagicKingdomOfLandover'', Queen Willow is a PlantPerson who periodically transforms into an actual tree, but only temporarily. [[MeaningfulName No points for guessing what kind of tree]].
126	* In ''Literature/TheMidnightLibrary'', a short story collection, the story called "An Apple a Day" concerns a young boy steals an apple from a neighbour's orchard, turning out to belong to a local witch, then he starts his horrifically slow transformation into [[TheTreesHaveFaces an apple tree with his face on it]]. [[AdultsAreUseless His parents don't really notice.]]
127	* ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'': The evil sorceress Alcina seduces men, but when she tires of them, she changes them into stones, animals, plants, or anything that strikes her fancy. When she did this to Astolfo, she turned him into a myrtle. He is eventually turned back to normal by the good sorceress Melissa.
128	* ''[[http://redbirdweb.de/anyones/piktor.htm Piktors Verwandlungen]]''/''[[http://redbirdweb.de/anyones/piktor.htm Piktor's Metamorphoses]]'' by Creator/{{Hermann Hesse}} is about a version of Paradise where the animals and plants [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change forms]] all the time. The titular Piktor transforms into a tree and is [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in this form]] until [[spoiler: a woman comes and [[RomanticFusion becomes one with him]]. The pair can now shapeshift just like all the other creatures.]]
129	* ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'':
130	** This happens to Amberle at the end of ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy The Elfstones of Shannara]]'': she was chosen to transform into a new Ellcrys, the magic tree that keeps the demons trapped in the Forbidding.
131	** This also happens to Grianne Ohmsford in a different and more limited way at the end of ''[[Literature/HighDruidOfShannara Tanequil]]''; she becomes one of the people who feed the eponymous magic tree's roots, which frees her spirit to live in the air around the tree's branches.
132	* In ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia'', Cecy's brother Oliver gets turned into a tree by an evil magician. [[spoiler:He gets better.]]
133	* In ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', this is revealed to be part of the natural life cycle of the aliens known by the human colonists as "piggies." The piggies, or pequeniños, are the highest form of animal life on their planet; the humans discover (after some tragic misunderstandings on both sides) that when they die they are "planted" and then metamorphose into the planet's large (sentient) trees, the dominant vegetable life, as a natural part of their life cycle. The human scientists eventually discover that this is a common theme for all life on the planet; everything from insects and grass to birds and fish have two distinct stages, many of them switching from animal to vegetable. [[spoiler:It turns out that this is not a natural state but that the planet's native life had been altered by an alien race's genetic engineering virus in the distant past.]]
134	* A short story titled "Summer Retreat" is about the Copses, a family of weretrees. They turn into trees to sleep for the winter... after murdering their neighbors and burying them in the yard for fertilizer.
135	* In ''Literature/TheThirdWitch'' (a retelling of Theatre/{{Macbeth}} by Rebecca Reisert), the main character Gilly prays at one point to be turned into a tree, and if that desire is granted she promises to abandon all thoughts of revenge against her nemesis, Macbeth. It doesn't happen.
136	* ''Literature/WhichWitch'':
137	** Ethel Feedbag imprisons a family of three {{Muggles}} in three different trees as part of a black magic competition.
138	** When [[spoiler:Terrence]] is recaptured by Matron and finally realizes he has magic powers, he turns her at least partially into a tree in order to root her to the ground and halt her threatening advance.
139	* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': The Magician Trent won the SuperpowerLottery with the power to transform any living organism into any other living organism. During his reign of terror, he hits quite a few of his enemies with {{Forced Transformation}}s of every size and shape. Then he figures out that trees are living organisms too, and just starts turning his enemies into trees.
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143	* ''Series/Charmed1998'': The sisters invoke this trope with a spell to bypass the recently acquired CompleteImmortality of an episode's villain -- because [[LoopholeAbuse trees are immortal too]].
144	* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021'': The [[EcoTerrorist Callisto Liberation Front]] use a spore-dispersing device designed for {{terraform}}ing as an improvised terrorist weapon. It's [[TransformationHorror not a pleasant experience]], though it is played for BlackComedy.
145	-->'''Newsreader:''' According to eyewitness reports, the toxic gas turned people into...trees? ''[turns off-camera]'' Are you serious with this? Oh, shit, that's nutbags!
146	* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'': In "[[Recap/DinosaursS03E19IfYouWereATree If You Were a Tree]]" a bedtime story Grandma Ethyl tells Baby Sinclair, Earl, who works as a tree pusher for the [=WeSaySo=] Corporation, magically exchanges souls with a tree. At the end of the story Earl and the tree switch back, each having learned the importance of the other. But it's just an in-show story so there are no long term effects.
147	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
148	** Both "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown Mission to the Unknown]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" feature Varga Plants, the thorns of which contain poison that transforms victims into other Varga Plants.
149	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]", anyone infected by the Krynoid will be transformed into a murderous plant monster.
150	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E3TheMarkOfTheRani The Mark of the Rani]]", the Rani has land mines that transform anyone who steps on them into a tree. It is implied that the victims still have consciousness, as one of them is able to move his branches as if they were still arms to stop Peri from meeting the same fate.
151	* ''Series/EdgeOfDarkness'': At the end of the series, [[spoiler:Craven turns into a black flower]] with no attempt at an explanation.
152	* In the ''Series/LostInSpace'' episode "The Great Vegetable Rebellion", Dr. Smith was turned into a plant by an anthropomorphic carrot. (He got better.)
153	* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
154	** In Season 5, the Dwarves testing out the new barrier preventing to leave Storybrook results in Dopey being turned into a tree.
155	** The Backstory has Merlin turned into a tree by the Dark One, and the heroes spend most of Season 5 trying to undo the spell.
156	** This is how Mother Gothel is defeated near the end of Season 7, losing a BeamOWar with Alice which turns her into a tree.
157	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
158	** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': In "A Few Bad Seeds", Rocky is attacked by Pollenator and begins slowly turning into a plant. It also makes him a bit of a flirt, telling Kat she has "nice leaves".
159	** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': In "Petrified Xander", Clare makes a "perfection" potion to use on the flower she's been failing to grow. Xander takes it and while it does cure the acne that's been bothering him, it also starts turning him into a tree (since it creates a perfect ''plant'').
160	* ''Series/TheStrangeCalls'': Episode 6 features a guy who developed a serum that turns people into trees, and has used it on himself (he's halfway through the tranformation). His evil plan is to turn the rest of the town into trees as well.
161	* ''Series/{{Swamp Thing\|1990}}'': The pilot episode for the TV series has the title character fuse a bad guy into a tree as punishment for killing one of Dr. Arcane's escaped test subjects.
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165	* From Music/ToriAmos' "Beauty Queen/Horses": "But will you find me if Creator/{{Neil\| Gaiman}} makes me a tree?"
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169	* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s music video for [[Music/HailToTheThief "There There"]] ends with frontman Thom Yorke becoming a tree as his apparent punishment for stealing some enchanted clothing he found in the woods. [[BodyHorror It's a lot more graphic than it sounds.]]
170	* The music video for Japanese singer DAOKO's Girl features a sequence where the main character turns everyone around her into giant flowers.
171	* The music video for Music/{{Ween}}'s "Transdermal Celebration" is an animation of aliens terraforming the planet and planting spores on humans which turns them into trees. The main subject in the video transforms slower than others and gets to witness the destruction, including watching a toddler getting turned. The video is too short to indicate whether consciousness is retained after getting fully turned.
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175	* Myth/ClassicalMythology sees this happen ''a lot'', often serving as a JustSoStory about the origin of a particular plant back then:
176	** The nymph Daphne was shot by one of Eros' lead-tipped arrows, which caused her to spurn Apollo's amorous advances. Desperate to escape Apollo, the fleeing Daphne cries out to the gods to save her and is [[EmergencyTransformation changed]] into a laurel tree.
177	** Baucis and Philemon from Ovid's Literature/TheMetamorphoses are the only ones in their town to welcome the [[AngelUnaware disguised Zeus and Hermes]] into their home. Part of their reward for upholding SacredHospitality is that when one of them dies, [[TogetherInDeath the other will die also]]; when death comes for them, they are changed into a pair of intertwining trees to symbolize their EternalLove.
178	** After Persephone and Demeter slew the nymph Minthe in retaliation for bragging about being Hades' mistress, Hades transformed his former lover's trampled corpse into the first mint plant.
179	** Leuce, a nymph and consort of Hades, was turned into a white poplar tree when she died, which became associated with the Underworld in general.
180	** The myth of Narcissus is sometimes recounted as Narcissus being [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment changed]] into a narcissus flower as a punishment for being such a, you guessed it, [[TropeNamers narcissist]]. In the earliest recorded versions, though, the flower simply sprang up on the bank of the spring where he died, and was named in his memory.
181	** Myrrha, Adonis's mother, was transformed into a myrrh tree after [[ParentalIncest sleeping with her own father]]. She then gave birth to Adonis while a tree.
182	** Philyre, who got turned into the linden tree after giving birth to Chiron, a centaur.
183	** Smilax got turned into bindweed after slighting Krokos (who got transformed into saffron after his death).
184	** When the Argonauts encountered the Hesperides, the sisters transformed themselves into an elm, a poplar, and a willow tree.
185	** Apollo gave his lover Cyparissus a tame deer as a pet, and when Cyparissus accidentally killed it, he asked Apollo to let his tears fall forever out of sorrow. Apollo granted the request by turning him into the first Cypress tree.
186	* There's also the [[FairyTale/{{EgleTheQueenOfSerpents}} tale of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglė_the_Queen_of_Serpents ''Eglė, The Queen of Serpents'']], from Lithuanian folklore. A woman named Eglė married a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting snake who can turn into a handsome human prince]] and together they had three sons and one daughter. When Eglė's family threatens to kill her husband and attempts to get information out of the children, the sons kept their mouths shut but the frightened daughter squealed, leading to her maternal family killing her father ([[SinisterScythe with scythes]], no less). Upon learning of this fact, Eglė curses herself and her children into trees: her strong sons into sturdy oak, ash, and birch, while her weak daughter a quaking aspen. Eglė herself turned into a spruce tree.
187	* Blodeuwedd, in Welsh myth, went the other way: Pygmalion-like, she was the perfect woman, called into being from the flowers of the earth, who while beautiful was shallow and fickle -- she was punished for her faithlessness by a further transformastion, this time into an owl to haunt the night.
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191	* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'': occurs to [[spoiler: Hurley and Sloane]] during the ''Petals to the Metal'' arc. [[spoiler: Later, they're revealed to actually have become dryads.]]
192	* ''Podcast/TheMagnusProtocol'': Episode 3 "Putting Down Roots" tells the story of a doctor hiding out in a strange garden and slowly, painfully transforming into a tree after getting scratched.
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195	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
196	* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'':
197	** SpellConstruction allows a temporary version of this by combining the magic for transformation, plants, and humans (or animals, etc.). Since it produces a physically ordinary plant (i.e., blind and immobile) unless it's enhanced by more advanced magic, it's of limited use outside [[ForcedTransformation ruining someone else's day]].
198	** Magi in the Bjornaer MysteryCult gain a [[{{Animorphism}} Heartbeast form]] that they can assume at will. Some gain a Heart''plant'' instead, which is accepted but considered rather odd even by wizardly standards.
199	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
200	** The ''Polymorph Other'' and ''Polymorph Any Object'' spell can change a living creature into a tree or other plant.
201	** In an old ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine article a wizard was challenged to a duel. He snapped his fingers, cast a [[ForcedTransformation Polymorph]] spell on the challenger and changed him into a plant, then said "Next?"
202	** The ''Shape Change'' spell allows the caster to change into a plant, such as a bush.
203	** The Barkburr is a small limpet-like monster that lives on trees. It jumps onto an opponent and injects them with a poison that causes lignification -- it turns the victim into a tree.
204	** The Druid spell ''Jungle's Rapture'' is a curse that makes the victim stiffer and stiffer as it slowly turns into wood over a few days. It's possible to slow down the process with restorative magic, but if not removed the curse will turn the victim into a plant of the same size.
205	** The Wu Jen spell ''Arboreal Transformation'' turns the target into a {{Treant\|s}} the size of a huge oak under the caster's control. After several days, said Treant becomes an ordinary tree.
206	** WildMagic Sorcerors have a 1-in-20 chance of a spell going wrong and becoming a RandomEffectSpell instead usually centred on themselves. One of the possibilities is to turn into a potted plant for one combat turn, if someone deals enough damage to you in potted plant form you revert to your original form however.
207	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
208	** Mosslords -- creatures resembling monstrous, evil, four-armed {{Treants}} -- can, through their ''Deadwood Curse'' special ability, transform one limb of any foe they strike in melee into a gnarled, immobile wooden branch.
209	** A [[BlobMonster forest blight]]'s claw attacks can slowly transform the flesh of its enemies into immobile wood. If their victims are completely overtaken by this lignification, they fully transform into trees. One way to undo this is to slay the blight that did this, at which point all of its transformed victims will retake their original forms.
210	** Green men emit an aura that causes any non-plant creature that comes within sixty feet of them to slowly transform into a nonmagical plant, unless it succeeds at a Fortitude save.
211	** In Second Edition, adult and older forest dragons can turn themselves into trees at will. In addition, when ancient and older ones kill another creature with a bite attack, their target is turned into living wood. The resulting statue can turn into a tree over time, but cannot be used to resurrect its former self.
212	* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'': The oldest [[PlantPeople Ganymedians]] eventually root into the soil of their home and become trees, venerated by their descendants.
213	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
214	** One of [[DeathWorld Catachan]]'s many terrifying flora is the Spiker, a plant which shoots needle-like stingers at living things to turn them into other Spikers.
215	** The Seers of Lugganath astral-projected their forms into the garden of [[{{Plaguemaster}} the Chaos God of Disease, Nurgle]], seeking a cure for a blight ravaging their craftworld. Their punishment for intruding in Nurgle's most sacred sanctum was to be turned into screaming trees. An eternal, miserable decoration on his daily walk.
216	* In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' the Goddess of Life Magic, Alarielle the Everqueen, is able to cast ''Metamorphosis'', a spell that causes the target's arms to twist into branches and their feet to form roots until they become a tree. In the game, if this spell kills the last model in a unit, then the player can replace the model with a wood.
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220	* In ''Theatre/KashcheyTheDeathless'', Kashcheyevna turns into a beautiful weeping willow.
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224	* ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'': This is a recurring "blessing" granted by the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Grievous Miracle]].
225	* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'': This fate befalls anyone caught in the wrong type of virtual atmosphere without a special breathing apparatus. It happens to [[spoiler:Boxxyfan]]’s grandma and sister during Chapter 7, marking the start of his fall into darkness. Later, it happens to [[spoiler:all of Catie’s friends, when Boxxyfan returns to get revenge]].
226	* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', [[spoiler:when the [[BigBad Wasp King]] eats the last remaining leaf of [[ImmortalityInducer the Everlasting Sapling]], he turns into [[OneWingedAngel The Everlasting King]], a semi-plant immortal demigod with huge regenerative power, and he attempts to use his newfound powers to destroy Team Snakemouth. After the defeat, he loses control of his powers and turns into an inanimate tree. Queen Elizant decides to keep it as a monument of their long struggle in search of the Sapling and a warning to not seek its power any longer.]]
227	* ''VideoGame/TheClueFinders6thGradeAdventuresTheEmpireOfThePlantPeople'': Joni starts turning into a plant while held hostage by the denizens of the polluted underground civilization.
228	* In ''VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow'', if you pass the Green Man's [[RiddleMeThis riddle game]] he will grant you the ability to temporarily turn yourself into a tree. If you fail (or deliberately attack him otherwise), [[NonstandardGameOver he'll make you one permanently.]]
229	* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': The second game features giants whose life cycle seems to involve turning into trees (even after death) and dropping seeds. The third game sees this happen to humans as well after spending too long as hollows (minus the seeds).
230	* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Flonne was turned into a flower as punishment for aiding Laharl's invasion of heaven. Whether or not she gets changed back [[MultipleEndings depends on which ending you get]].
231	* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': When [[DueToTheDead properly buried]], dead [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] can grow into [[WiseTree Ancestor Trees]] that retain the elf's spirit and are revered by their living kin.
232	* The ''Franchise/DragonAge'' lore features this as the origin of [[PlantPerson Sylvans]], though it could be seen as more of an InvertedTrope; when spirits and/or demons cross over from the Fade, they typically seek out something ([[DemonicPossession or someone]]) to posses, as their Fade forms are vulnerable and somewhat uncomfortable in the more grounded mortal realm. Unfortunately, if a spirit/demon exits the Fade in, say, an isolated forest, their options are limited, and indeed, many choose to posses trees themselves. This results in them getting trapped in said tree, which becomes their bodies, and they end up immobile until someone either releases them, or they manage to gain enough control over their bodies to begin moving around. Sadly, most sylvans you meet are driven insane, either from the trauma of crossing from the Fade or from being [[AndIMustScream trapped in a tree for gods know how long]], but you do meet one with a penchant for rhymes who refers to himself as a "[[{{Pun}} Poet-tree]]."
233	* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', a curse not only covers an entire kingdom with thorny vines but also turns almost everyone into statue-like plants.
234	* ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl Stone Soup'' has Potions of Lignification, which temporarily transform you into an animate tree. In this form, you are incapable of movement, including teleportation, but have improved defensive capabilities, although attacking and spellcasting are still possible. This is usually beneficial, but drinking an unidentified potion and unexpectedly turning into a tree in the middle of a difficult battle can also be very bad.
235	* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': Over the course of a few hundred years and three games, Harold slowly goes from being an oddball [[MutagenicGoo FEV product]] to a PlantPerson with a [[ConsultingMisterPuppet bonsai tree on his head named Bob]] growing on his head to a fully-fledged [[WiseTree talking tree]] completely rooted in place by a now much larger Bob. He's not really happy with the last bit when your character first encounters him in this form in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', but depending on how you play it, he can come to terms with being involuntarily made a FisherKing slowly restoring plant life to the wasteland.
236	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has this as a possible fate for those who wander into Il Mheg, land of TheFairFolk: numerous "leafmen" are scattered about the landscape in various postures, and the pixies can threaten the player with the same fate in some sidequests. Although it's mostly a punishment for going where people don't belong or otherwise upsetting the pixies, it does at least appear to be instantaneous and painless, and there's one example in which a dying defender was transformed this way instead of succumbing to the BodyHorror PainfulTransformation of turning into a Sin Eater.
237	* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun1'': The population of a lumberjack village is turned into trees due to a forest spirit's curse, then restored after the heroes break the curse. One NPC is balanced precariously over a stream, if you don't move her to safety before removing the curse, she drowns.
238	* ''VideoGame/GoosebumpsNightOfScares'' does this in the ExpansionPack, ''Dead of Night'', where the player gets exposed to Dr. Brewer's plant powder and ends up turning into a plant-person. For the rest of the level, they must collect ingredients to create an antidote to reverse the transformation.
239	* In ''VideoGame/KeenDreams'', this is your main weapon: throwing little seeds to (temporarily) turn enemies into flowers -- as opposed to all other games where Keen wields a ray gun.
240	* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus1986'' has monsters that can [[ForcedTransformation turn]] the player into a ''mobile eggplant.''
241	* The ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' series has several examples.
242	** In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'', the Weeping Willow is actually a princess cursed by a witch. It later gets lifted.
243	** In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride'', this happens in the backstory of a minor female character called Ceres. She was attacked by the WickedWitch Malicia and turned into an oak tree, then stabbed and left to bleed to death with the stake still impaled in her trunk. Of course, the curse gets lifted in the end.
244	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
245	** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', the Flute Boy is slowly turned into a tree by the power of the DarkWorld, and the transformation completes after you play the flute for him one last time, though he gets better in the ending thanks to the Triforce. There are also trees that you can talk to in the Dark World that are implied to have originally been inhabitants of the Light World like the Flute Boy.
246	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' begins with Link forced into the form of a plantlike Deku Scrub by the Skull Kid. Once the player figures out how to reverse the transflormation, they can initiate it [[VoluntaryTransformation at will]] by donning the Deku Mask. The TransformationSequence still looks [[EyeScream excruciating]], though. [[spoiler:The Deku Butler's son, whose form Deku Link comes from, was also changed from a PlantPerson into an inanimate tree.]]
247	* ''VideoGame/ManaSeries'': many games in the series end with someone fusing with the [[WorldTree Mana Tree]] to revive it.
248	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', the Mana Tree dies after the battle. The [[spoiler:heroine, as the sole surviving member of the Mana Tribe]], must stay and become the new tree. The same happens in ''VideoGame/SwordOfMana'', its remake.
249	** In ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', you discover that your mother is part of the mana tree, and that that is the fate of all the women in the mana clan.
250	** In ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', your Faerie friend who accompanied you the entire adventure is actually a seed of the Mana Tree.
251	** ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' ends with you killing the mana goddess inside the mana tree and then disappearing from the world. No explanation is given, but we can expect you've become a mana tree because it keeps happening in the Mana series.
252	%% ** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': [need context here]
253	* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', several Toads become ensnared at Toadwood Forest and are slowly absorbed into the trees as their energy is slowly withered from their bodies.
254	* In ''VideoGame/{{The Messenger\|2018}}'', travelers cursed by the Queen of Quills are transformed into the mushrooms of Quillshroom Marsh.
255	* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': A mushroom instead of plant variant occurs with zombies here. The Witch Hazel is capable of turning most Zombies into Puff-Shrooms (or Fume-Shrooms if her level is sufficiently high enough) for an instant kill. Her [[LimitBreak Plant Food power]] turns a zombie into a [[BewitchedAmphibians Toadstool]], a cross between a toadstool and a toad that eats zombies and produces sun. There's also Spore-shroom, whose projectiles can turn zombies into more Spore-shrooms.
256	* In ''VideoGame/Portal2'', [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn Wheatley]], after taking control of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and becoming DrunkWithPower, shoves [[MasterComputer GLaDOS]]'s [=AI=] brain into a potato battery as payback for her calling him a moron earlier. Needless to say, she's not happy about having to rely on [[EnemyMine Chell carrying her around]] for the rest of the game]].
257	-->[[AC:Oh, hi. So, how are you holding up? ''BECAUSE I'M A POTATO.'']]
258	* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', Julanar is a woman who, while fleeing from brigands, is discovered by a djinn who transforms her into a tree in order to save her from her pursuers.
259	* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'', the Topiary Sprinkler transforms enemies into bushes that keeps them frozen in place.
260	* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': During the "Plague's End" quest, the player is tasked with finding and reuniting the elven clan leaders, who went into hiding during a civil war. Lord Crwys, of the clan famed for woodcutting and farming, has turned himself into [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles one of the forest trees]] and gotten sick from the Poison Waste seeping into his roots. Thankfully, all he needs to turn back is a dose of plant cure.
261	* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'':
262	** In ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'', one of Shantae's optional transformations is a {{treant\|s}} form that leaves her rooted to the ground, but allows her to spend magic to grow oranges that restore a small amount of health.
263	** In ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'', using the Refresh Dance displays an image of Shantae in a lamia-like form with a large rose-covered root for a tail, [[PlantHair blossoming vines for hair]], and [[GardenGarment plant-based clothing]].
264	* In ''VideoGame/Summoner2'', Maia transforms into the tree of Eleh after defeating the Tempest.
265	* In ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', the [[spoiler:Amiable Vagabond]] is forced to literally put down roots if you turn his attempted betrayal against him and then choose to save him from falling down Old Tom's Well. Given his love of exploring the Skies, this is a living hell for him.
266	* ''VideoGame/SwordAndFairy7'' has a variation with [[OurGodsAreDifferent New Deities]]. They originally were fruits of a divine tree, that were infused with power of the [[PlaceOfPower Chunzi spring]]. If a New Deity loses too much energy, they will transform back into a fruit to recover. It happens at the start of the game with the {{Deuteragonist}} Xiu Wu.
267	* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', [[spoiler: Flowey is actually Prince Asriel Dreemurr, who was inadvertently brought back from the dead (minus [[TheSoulless his soul]]) as a flower thanks to an experiment by the royal scientist, Dr. Alphys.]]
268	* Heroes in ''VideoGame/{{Wildermyth}}'' may acquire the "elmsoul" transformation, in which they absorb an ancient tree spirit and take on plant-like characteristics including the ability to photosynthesize. Should an elmsoul hero lose a limb, it regrows as a tree branch.
269	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
270	** Druids can learn a Tree-of-Life form, which allows them to transform into mighty {{Treants}}.
271	** In ''Warlords of Draenor'', players are introduced to the Botani, plant-people who will inflict this in a distinctly BodyHorror and mind-controlling way on orc (and in one dungeon, human mage) [=NPCs=]. The ''very'' concerning part is that it's hard to tell if the orcs are simply reanimated corpses or if they're enthralled and mutated but [[FateWorseThanDeath still alive]]. As for the humans? One of them begs for you to flee as her body and magic try to kill you.
272	** In ''Legion'', a more deliberate version is done by the Vrykrul Druid [[WiseTree Vydhar]], who, with the help of Highmountain Tauren, transformed himself into a tree ages ago to make his wisdom eternal.
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275	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
276	* ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'' plays up the BodyHorror flavour of this trope should [[spoiler:[[DeathOfAChild Kanna be voted for death]] in chapter 2-2]], leading to the execution [[spoiler:"The Human Flower", whereby seeds are released from Kanna’s collar into her body, causing the root to burst from under her skin, eventually leading to a rose sprouting from her head as the final touch]].
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279	[[folder:Web Animation]]
280	* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'' had a sketch with a guy with "tree powers", but turning himself into a tree [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway proved rather ineffective at stopping crime]].
281	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': In "ComicBook/{{Raven}} vs. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]]", [[spoiler:Twilight transforms Raven into a potted plant and attempts to crush said plant. Unfortunately for Twilight, Raven's soul self can still function even if Raven is incapacitated, and it divebombs the pony hard enough to [[ImpactSilhouette crater her into the ground]], [[AmbiguousSituation though it isn't made clear if it actually killed her]].]]
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284	[[folder:Webcomics]]
285	* ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'': Maggie gains the ability to transform her arms into vines and branches as an effect of forming her [[DealWithTheDevil pact with the demon]] Tuls.
286	* In ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', staying as a tree for six months to three years is one of the first step of training in shapeshifting magic: One has to learn to appreciate other shapes to master them.
287	* ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'': In "A Tale With A Riddle," based on the ''very'' short story by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, three women are changed into flowers.
288	* In ''Webcomic/TheGamer,'' the druid warrior Horpitia Aholting, partner to the Witch of Slaughter, is capable of transforming into a tree that gathers life force to power the Witch's spells.
289	* In ''Webcomic/HeldWithin'', by Dan Standing, the snooty college student Maple signed up for the Arbor Club just to put it on her resume, and her ongoing absence cripples the club's abilities to increase the greenery around campus. This angers Susie, and when Susie's girlfriend is accidentally transformed into a genie Susie uses a wish to transform Maple into a rather obvious choice in trees.
290	* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', Mottom is fond of these, [[https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-4-66/ such as here]].
291	* One of the tales told within ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'' is the story of Negat, the woman who turned into a tree out of her love for the sun, [[JustSoStory becoming the Mother Tree of Dorlish wood]].
292	* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'':
293	** Anne temporarily goes through this starting [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=days-of-their-lives-6 here]] and ending [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=days-of-their-lives-10 here]] in the “Days of Their Lives” arc. She’s changed back shortly afterwards by the nature spirit responsible.
294	** [[spoiler:The original Wotch]] did this to a random thief in a flashback [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=the-originals-3 here]].
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298	* ''Blog/TheTasteOfStatic'': In The Miller Tapes, this is both the fate of [[spoiler:Saint Dagmar and Tom Miller]].
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301	[[folder:Web Videos]]
302	* In ''Funny Or Die'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo parody series]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet\|and the Planeteers}}'' , the Captain (played by Creator/DonCheadle) turns bad guys polluting the environment into trees... but then starts acting like a jerkass and continues to turn innocent citizens into plants, too, much to the horror of the Planeteers who summoned him.
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305	[[folder:Western Animation]]
306	* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': "[[Recap/AaahhRealMonstersS2E9RoshOMonsterTreeOfIckis Tree of Ickis]]" has this happen to Ickis after he eats a seed pod, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin turning him into a tree]], and Oblina and Krumm have to gather up [[TermiteTrouble termites]] to free him from his wooden prison before he is cut down and sliced to pieces by a [[LumberMillMayhem sawmill]] [[ConveyorBeltODoom conveyor belt]] and [[TreesIntoToothpicks turned into baseball bats]]. Gooloog, another monster Ickis meets, also suffered the same issue he did, and moments after Oblina and Krumm save him, he offers Gooloog the termites used on him, but he declines, [[KeepingTheHandicap having grown fond of his current state and saying it's too much responsibility to be free]].
307	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': Tummi steals a fruit off a cursed tree, eats it, and then slowly transforms into a tree himself. The rest of the Gummi Bears need to find the cure.
308	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE29EternalYouth Eternal Youth]]", Poison Ivy turns rich people into trees. Unlike most versions, it takes several days, at least at the dosages she initially uses.
309	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Ben can voluntarily transform into the alien forms Wildvine and Swampfire, which are [[PlantPerson Plant People.]] Well, PlantAliens.
310	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': The captain is an example of the self-inflicted version sometimes; he can transform parts of his body into multiple natural things, including trees and vines, if he thinks it will help him deal with a problem. During "The Great Tree Heist", it backfired on him when Hoggish Greedly mulched him, causing him to dematerialize painfully and scaring the Planeteers half to death.
311	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'': In the episode "Core-uption," Waffle becomes a potted flower as a result of Gordon turning the world into a SugarBowl.
312	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': Dr. Reginald Bushroot went a step further than Poison Ivy and injected himself with his experimental serum. This resulted in chlorophyll going through his veins instead of blood and plant tissue growing from inside his body: His feet turning into roots and leaves sprouting thanks to sunlight. He is now more plant than duck since even getting shredded leads to his regeneration.
313	* ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' had an episode where an AbsentMindedProfessor accidentally creates a super plant fertilizer that turns him into a plant. The villains plan to conquer Earth by turning humans into plants using the professor's formula.
314	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': At the climax of "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E10NorthwestMansionMystery Northwest Mansion Mystery]]", the MonsterOfTheWeek turns the guests at the Northwest's party into tree-like [[TakenForGranite statues]].
315	* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E9And10HeartsAndMinds Hearts and Minds]]", to stop Despero's army of soldiers powered by the Py'tar, [[spoiler:the Py'tar itself transforms them into trees, to prevent them from attacking other worlds]].
316	* ''WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoons'': "The Tree Surgeon" has the titular surgeon sprouting roots and branches after accidentally poking himself with a syringe meant for a sick tree.
317	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
318	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", Fluttershy expresses interest in becoming a tree, which became [[MemeticMutation something of a fandom running gag]].
319	** In a flashback in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", a young Twilight Sparkle's PowerIncontinence resulted in her accidentally turning her parents into potted plants.
320	** {{Invoked\|Trope}}, and ultimately used in a partial rather than full-body example, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E18DungeonsAndDiscords Dungeons & Discords]]". While role-playing in the tabletop game he's playing alongside Spike and Big Mac, Discord attempts to transform a guard into a parsnip and, on flubbing the roll to do so, instead transforms his own hand into a cluster of parsnips shaped like fingers. In all of Captain Wuzz's subsequent appearances, his left hand remains the root vegetable he turned it into, albeit a fully movable one.
321	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation A Health of Information]]", one of the symptoms of advanced Swamp Fever, a disease contracted by inhaling a certain kind of pollen, is leaves and branches sprouting from the victim. Ultimately, this results in the afflicted pony being completely transformed into a tree -- [[TheVirus the very same kind of tree whose flowers create the pollen that causes Swamp Fever]].
322	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 The Mean 6]]", the clones of the Mane 6 that Chrysalis creates are made from heartwood, a sample of each pony's hair, and pictures. When the clones get destroyed by the Tree of Harmony, they turn back into colored pieces of the wood they were made from.
323	* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'' is apparently having an upcoming episode in which the titular character gets increasingly tired while playing one day, so he dozes off and has a dream that he turns into a plant, learning about photosynthesis.
324	* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': This is the M.O. of the Beast, the shadowy soul-stealing BigBad--those close to death or or past the DespairEventHorizon turn into edelwood trees, which are then used to keep his lantern lit. [[spoiler:The lantern is also his SoulJar, so he's essentially consuming their souls to stay alive]].
325	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The premise of "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]" is Rick Sanchez, the main character, turning himself into a talking pickle as a ploy to get out of a family therapy session.
326	* In ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'', the destruction of [[AnIcePerson King Winterbolt's]] ice scepter resulted in him turning into a tree.
327	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' episode "Planet Professor Professor", Changed Daily starts turning into an orchid plant the longer he wears a helmet stuck on his head forcing the effect.
328	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeamGalaxy'' episode "Strange Fruit", an hungry Josh eats a fruit from an unknown alien planet without analyzing or trying to identify it first. Turns out to be a MutagenicFood which slowly turns him into a giant version of the fruit. He gets better at the end but not before some TransformationHorror when near the completion of his transformation Josh loses the ability to speak and starts [[BodyHorror rotting awayas he gets much too ripe]]... The protagonists also use the fruit's abilities to fight off the villains of the episode.
329	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Raphael is turned into a plant in the first episode of Season 3 when the turtles battle The Creep, a mutant plant monster.
330	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In the episode "Sea Change", Rumble enters the Well of Transformation ([[VoluntaryShapeshifting which changes whoever is immersed into it to whatever form they think of]]) and is tricked by the heroes into turning himself into a tree, immobilizing him. Luckily for Rumble, he reverts at the end of the episode when an explosion knocks his tree form into the water.
331	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'', Zirconia was imprisoned within, and eventually became, a tree for 3000 years, with her magic being used as a conduit by Simon. He later tries to do the same to Onyx, and in the BeachEpisode he tries again with Zirconia; she's partly turned into a palm tree to fit the tropical setting.
332	* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateBookOfSpells'': One episode has Gus and Cassie afflicted with a curse that brings out their ancestry; Cassie slowly turns into a tree, as apparently witches originally came from "witchwood" (though the specifics aren't explained).
333	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': The effect of a Polter's touch is to turn living creatures into vegetal statues
334	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':
335	** Halfway through the first season, Mirta is changed into a pumpkin by Icy, and Flora spends the rest of the season trying to figure out how to change her back.
336	** Headmistress Faragonda is turned into a tree at one point, but she gets better.
337	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome'', gnomes have a natural lifespan of 400 years, after which they die and become trees. [[spoiler: The GrandFinale depicts David, Lisa, and their friend Casper having reached the end of their lives and departing for the mountains and undergoing the process. While Casper is shown to be scared of the end of his life, David and Lisa accept it and are grateful for the life they shared together. David and Lisa become intertwined apple trees as a sign of their love and their spirits are shown in the closing moments of the show.]]
338	* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': "[[Recap/XiaolinShowdownTheDemonSeed The Demon Seed]]" features a Haylin Seed turning Jack Spicer, Vlad, and all the Xiaolin Warriors save Raimundo into plants. Clay becomes a plum tree (with a not-yet-plantified Omi plucking one of his plums and eating it, prompting Clay to protest, "Hey, watch where you're plucking!") Kimiko becomes a daisy, Jack turns into a CactusPerson, and Omi towards the end becomes an unidentified plant with [[NonMammalianHair a beard made of moss]].
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342	* The parasitic fungus ''O. sinensis'' grows inside moth larvae and eventually emerge from the caterpillar. The infected caterpillar bodies are sought after by Chinese herbalists as a remedy called "dōng chóng xià cǎo" ("winter worm, summer grass").
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