History Main / GrowsOnTrees

** In ''Ozma of Oz'', Dorothy and co. come upon lunch-box and dinner-pail trees in the country of Ev, with napkins for leaves, each separate food item including cakes and ham sandwiches having its own stem inside.
** In ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', the inhabitants of Oogaboo are named after the crops they grow on their orchard trees -- Jo Apple, Jo Candy, Jo Stockings, Jo Files, etc. Jo Files also has a storybook tree, where the stories are "dull and confusing" if they're picked too soon, but if you wait until they're ripe, they're excellent. In the same book, a prisoner in the Nome King's domain survives by eating off what he calls "Hotel Trees", which grow coconut-looking things you can unscrew to reveal they contain a three-course dinner, from soup to nuts.

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"Well, money doesn't grow on trees, does it?" demanded the count.\\

** On "Treehouse of Horror" short has Homer travel back in time and accidentally alter history by changing [[ForWantOfANail some small thing in the distant past]]. He spends the majority of the episode repeatedly going back and changing different things, creating different {{Alternate Timeline}}s while trying to get back to his own. He eventually ends up in a seemingly perfect timeline: his family is filthy rich, his kids are well-behaved, and [[ObnoxiousInLaws Patty and Selma]] have recently died. Homer seems very content to stay in this timeline, until he finds out that [[TrademarkFavoriteFood donuts]] were apparently never invented, [[FauxHorrific causing him to run screaming back to his time machine]]. Right after he leaves, ''[[GaveUpTooSoon donuts start falling from the sky]]'', and Marge groans in annoyance, "Darn, it's raining again".

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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4648ea2855b5a Deliplants]] are genetically-engineered plants that grow animal products, which is more efficient and ethical than using animals. A similar, if less literal example, are [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49774cb7dce0e meatshrooms]], which are mushrooms with the taste, texture, and nutritional qualities of meat.

* In most Tarot decks the seven of coins (pentacles) depicts a bored-looking farmer tending a plant growing gold coins.

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* In plenty ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' games you can find bomb flowers growing on the ground. they are flowers whose fruit are bombs that light up the moment you pick them up. Gorons take these fruits and process them to create normal bombs.

-->--''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''

* ''Literature/{{Cetaganda}}'', set on a planet where genetic engineering is a high art, has a tree that has ''kittens'' as its "fruit". They don't survive being "plucked", however, if not ripe yet. The man who plucked one (attracted by their sleeping mewing) thought they were somehow glued to the tree and failed to look before effectively ripping one in half.

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* ''Literature/TheTalkingParcel'' by Creator/GeraldDurrell: In the MagicalLand of Mythopoeia, this is the default means of producing many common items: bottles and corks are each plucked off their own respective tree, for example. The main characters' guide finds the real-world version of a "cork tree" rather ridiculous by comparison.

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* ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'': One strip have Mr. Chiu showing Old Master Q his cool new plant, a tree that literally grows money instead of leaves, though only in tiny, 1-dollar notes. When Master Q tries picking one of the notes for himself, Chiu stopped him, telling him "wait a few days, the notes will become 10 dollars." Master Q did return days later, and sure enough said tree now have 10-dollar notes on it's branches. Chiu stopped him again, saying "Come back in a week, it'll grow 100 dollars..." cue a week later, and Master Q returns to see Chiu in a depressed state. Turns out after growing a bunch of 100 dollar notes, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the tree have subsequently wilted and died]].

* ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'': One strip have Mr. Chiu showing Old Master Q his cool new plant, a tree that literally grows money instead of leaves, though only in tiny, 1-dollar notes. When Master Q tries picking one of the notes for himself, Chiu stopped him, telling him "wait a few days, the notes will become 10 dollars." Master Q did return days later, and sure enough said tree now have 10-dollar notes on it's branches. Chiu stopped him again, saying "Come back in a week, it'll grow 100 dollars..." cue a week later, and Master Q returns to see Chiu in a depressed state. Turns out after growing a bunch of 100 dollar notes, the tree have subsequently wilted and died.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'': Referenced during one of the stage announcements for Kelp Dome: Callie states that anything you plant in the dome will grow really well, to which Marie responds that she wants to plant some french fries.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'', Jules grows a money tree, but the bills wither once they're picked.

* One ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' story had the Korean government use Wade's DNA to splice the powers of other mutants onto their own citizens in horrific experiments that eventually result in total organ failure. After liberating them, Deadpool takes them to Monster City, where they have a demonic tree that can grow replacement organs from their genetic samples on a daily basis.