History Main / FlowerFromTheMountaintop

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In the episode "Enchanted Science Fair", Amber accidentally overuses the Hocus Crocus for her group's project, destroying her own project as well as those of her siblings. When the children visit Cedric the Sorcerer again to restock on ingredients so they can try again, he tells them he's all out of Hocus Crocus and that the only place to get the flower is at the top of Mist Bowl Mountain, but there is enough for only one of their projects. Much of the ensuing episode is then dedicated to them trying to obtain the flower.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': This was the plot of a ''Smurfs'' short; subverted at the end when we find out that there are actually hundreds of the flowers growing up there.
* In the "Game of Peril" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'', Penelope's scavenger hunt list includes a rare flower called the "Crimson Avuncular", which grows only on Mount Mishmash.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has this, though it's not so much as "flower from the mountaintop" as it is "root from the canyon on another planet".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIVJourneyThroughTheMists'', Littlefoot has to go to the dangerous "Land of the Mists" to retrieve the nightflower to heal his sick grandfather.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy'', Maryoku tells the wishes a story about The Golden Flower of Fun, that supposedly grows in a cave and brings happiness to whoever finds it. Fudan decides to go find it, so to dissuade him from making the long journey (and after a confusing conversation with [[HermitGuru Tapo Tapo]]), Maryoku goes off to find it herself. She eventually stumbles upon it, but leaves it where it is when she sees a record of the Yummies who had been there before.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': In "The Bitter Rose", Orko does this to [[GrandRomanticGesture prove his love]] for Dree'Elle. Initially it causes problems for everyone until it's revealed he did something unexpectedly beneficial, after all.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', one of the Thirteen Treasures of Rule is guarded by a giant worm. A nearby alchemist tells Ren that a certain magical flower with healing powers that grows deep in a dangerous marsh is poisonous to the worm. In the end, [[spoiler:Ren uses the flower to save the life of someone he befriended in that episode. Said friend repays the favor by distracting the worm while Ren claims the Treasure.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Three's a Crowd", Twilight and Cadance travel to a hill at the edge of Equestria, to find a rare flower to cure Discord. [[spoiler: He "forgot" to mention that the flower is the size of a tree. And seemed to be genuinely unaware it was guarded by a SandWorm. And in fact, he was ''never even really sick'' (not until the worm sprays him).]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', Kaeloo sets up a game show-like experience for her friends. Sadly, she can't actually make anything dangerous, and the flower is on a rock which the others are forced to pretend is a mountaintop..
* The High Wattleflower in ''WesternAnimation/KulipariAnArmyOfFrogs'' grows at the top of a mountain frogs die trying to climb and is an essential part of battlefield medicine, being "biological ''and'' magical". It was also [[spoiler: used to create the Veil around the Amphibilands, and can therefore be used by the villains to destroy it.]]

* In ''Bettada Hoovu''[[labelnote:Translation]]Flower from the mountain [[/labelnote]] a {{Tearjerker}} of a [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherwoods Sandalwood]] movie, a young boy makes a living plucking and selling flowers from a mountain to feed his extremely poor family. However, he makes such a paltry amount from selling these flowers, that in the end, he is forced to choose to spend what little money he has, between a textbook he badly needs to stay in school, or a blanket to keep his family warm in the coming winter. [[spoiler: He chooses the blanket]]

** In another episode, "Snorkmaiden's Lost Memory" Snorkmaiden gained {{Easy Amnesia}} from attempting to each a flower she thought was Edelweiss, slightly inverted that she climbed down to reach the flower initially, and ends up climbing down because she and Moomin judged trying climbing back up was too dangerous, only to lose her footing on the way.

** In another episode, "Snorkmaiden's Lost Memory" Snorkmaiden gained {{EasyAmnesia}} from attempting to each a flower she thought was Edelweiss, slightly inverted that she climbed down to reach the flower initially, and ends up climbing down because she and Moomin judged trying climbing back up was too dangerous, only to lose her footing on the way.

* ''{{VideoGame/Avalon}}'': You have to retrieve the "Flower of the Eternal Roam" from a mountaintop in order for your ally Caddman to brew the [[FindTheCure antidote to the Dark Poison]], so [[TheDragon Esor Amreh]] can't use it on you again.

* ''{{VideoGame/Avalon}}'': You have to retrieve the "Flower of the Eternal Roam" from a mountaintop in order for your ally Caddman to brew the [[FindTheCure antidote to the Dark Poison]], so you [[TheDragon Esor Amreh]] can't use it on you again.

-->'''Marcus:''' Lord Eliwood loved his wife deeply. And one night...before the two became engaged, Lord Eliwood suddenly disappeared from the castle. When he returned to his love three days later, he presented her with a beautiful white flower which only grows in the snowy highlands. It was the flower which she loved the most.

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* Subverted in the last ''Anime/TenchiMuyo!'' OAV. Tenchi's mother is injured climbing a mountain for a healing herb... which grows abundantly in the valley below.

* Occurs in ''Anime/DotHackSign''. Tsukasa is entrusted with a grunty which gets sick. To cure it, he must collect a rare herb from a very high level dungeon, even though he is very low level. [[spoiler: He is able to get it, but he doesn't return in time and the grunty dies anyway.]]

* ''Franchise/OnePiece'': Chopper gets a rare medicinal herb to save the doctor who raised him. The plant? A toxic species of mushroom known as a Jolly Roger. The doctor knew it was poisonous from the beginning, but couldn't tell the poor kid that he risked his life for nothing.

* In an episode of ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'', Charlene needed to get the (aptly named) MacGuffin lily in order to change her scent, which was supposed to attract her true love (hers was a big, oafish brute). She arrives to the mountain top only to find [[spoiler:that the field had been cleared away to make room for a photo booth. When she returns, however, she finds that her scent had changed nonetheless, apparently triggered by her desire to improve herself and not settle.]]

* In the ''{{Literature/Ramayana}}'', Lakshmana, the younger brother of Rama, is struck by a arrow tipped with an incredibly rare and deadly poison during the war. The only cure for it is from a rare flower known as [[MeaningfulName Sanjeevani]] (it roughly translates to "Bloom of Eternal Life"). [[BoisterousBruiser Hanuman]], being the [[UndyingLoyalty loyal friend]] that he is, goes to get it from the mountain it grows on. When he sees that the flower is growing all over the mountain, ''[[StealTheSurroundings he picks up the entire mountain]] and flies back'' so that the entire army can be healed from it. Alternately, he cannot tell the correct herb and carries it back to the experts who can.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' does this twice. With the same species of creature, the same plant required to save its life, and the same girl willingly poisoning herself to save it. Then again, everyone likes Dragon Riders, right?
** Inversed in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', to cure Rosa's poison you need to ''descend'' into the lair of the antlion to get an Antlion Pearl.

* Potentially happens twice in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': The Elven Storyteller requires you to get the Mana Leaf Herb from "a difficult place" in order to cure Colette's illness, and there's also a {{Sidequest}} in which Raine falls ill, and everyone splits up to find a way to cure her. Her brother Genis and his friend Mithos find the required flower at the top of the Fooji Mountains.
* Obtaining a flower was one of the missions in the first ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'' game.
* The only wolfsbane flower in the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' expansion ''Bloodmoon'' is located on top of a large mountain in Solstheim.
** The original ''Morrowind'' has a more downplayed version -- one sidequest asks you to find five (extremely rare) Roland's Tear flowers, and the quest-giver knows of one place where they grow. The good news is, it's not exactly inaccessible -- it's actually fairly close. The bad news is that it is a Daedric ruin, and Daedric ruins have a reputation as some of the most dangerous places in all Morrowind.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', Marcus tells Lilina in their supports that Roy's dad Eliwood did this when he was young, to please his now-deceased wife aka Roy's MissingMom [[spoiler: who can be either Lyndis, Ninian or Fiora. (Though the talk implies said mom ''isn't'' Lyndis, as out of the three ladies she's the only one who is NOT from the zone the flower grows in.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' a Male Morgan can do this for [[CuteMonsterGirl Nah]] in their supports, as the dragon goddess Naga requires it for a ritual that she asks the half-Dragon Nah for. If they reach S support, it turns out it was a plot [[ShipperOnDeck by Naga]] to prove to Nah that her prayers for Morgan to love her wasn't necessary, because he already loved her.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' as a romantic gesture, Aang goes to get one that only grow on the volcano rim.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' when Fiona tells Donkey to get a blue flower with red thorns, just to get him out of the way. Donkey does find the flower, after a moment of freaking out because he's colorblind. But he gets it right.

* An episode of ''Anime/InuYasha'' followed Rin on a journey to retrieve a rare plant from a cliff to cure Jakken of poison.

* In the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Switzerland'', Asterix had to bring to the druid Getafix an edelweiss flower from the Alps, so he can make a cure for someone who's been deliberately poisoned.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book version of "The Astro Smurf", one of Astro's challenges to become a Swoof is to get an edelweiss flower from the top of a mountain before sundown, and given that this task takes place around sundown, this gives Astro very little time to accomplish it. After being unable to climb up the mountain, Astro sees a stork and uses it to complete the challenge in record time.

* In ''The Magic of Oz'', one of the [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz books]], a character decides he's going to go get an incredibly rare flower as a gift for Princess Ozma, or something. It grows on an island in the middle of a river. Only it turns out that if you step on the island, your feet grow roots.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime IV'', Littlefoot has to go to the dangerous "Land of the Mists" to retrieve the nightflower to heal his sick grandfather.

* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'': Ameena, the ill girl you befriend, is making a wishing charm out of a rare flower, which grows only in the wilderness area around the town where you meet her. It doesn't appear to be anything more than an inconvenience for most people to find it, but she's in such poor health that it nearly kills her.
** Subverted humorously and combined with the UnexpectedGameplayChange in the [[VideoGame/StarOcean1 original]] for the Super NES, where you, having been living on a normal fantasy world, have to obtain the flower to cure a plague which is [[TakenForGranite turning people into stone/crystals]]; however, as soon as you get there, an exploration team from the starship above beams down, hears your story and takes you back to the ship to get a cure. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, but this does eventually cause you to wind up saving everyone in the world, and the galaxy.]]
** This also happens in the [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory second installment]]. There's a sick little girl whom you can get Private Actions with (along with another character-- who it is depends on who you're playing as and who you have in your party), and in some of them you go on a journey to the Lassguss Mountains to get a plant to cure her. The Star Ocean series seems to like this trope...
*** It happens again when Bowman makes you venture into the annoying Sanctuary of Linga to find a herb he has never seen before. There's no pressing reason for this, he just wants to see if your braggadocio is legit.

* In ''Werewolf of London'' (1935) a botanist seeks a rare flower that only blooms in moonlight. He is bitten by a werewolf and must grow the flower in England to save himself, as it is the only cure.