Basic Trope: Items grow like fruit on trees.
- Straight: A tree grows wads of cash instead of fruit clusters.
- Exaggerated:
- Every leaf is a dollar bill.
- Everything in existence grows on trees (literally)
- Downplayed: Bananas and carrots grow on actual wooden trees.
- Justified:
- A Wizard Did It.
- The unusual fruits are noted to have been grafted to improve yield just like in real life.
- Inverted:
- The tree produces nothing, not even leaves, flowers, or fruit.
- Leaves or other things which are typically grown on trees are used as money, food, or some other use.
- Apples are mined or manufactured instead of growing.
- Subverted:
- Money doesn't literally grow on trees...
- Or, this tree doesn't produce anything unusual.
- Double Subverted:
- But the paper it's made from comes from trees.
- But that's because it's out of season.
- Or, another tree does.
- Parodied: Trees grow on trees.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nothing unusual grows on trees.
- No trees in this setting.
- Enforced: "What's an efficient, amusing way of showing people that something magical is happening here?"
- Lampshaded: "Money doesn't grow on...nevermind."
- Invoked: Someone makes a wish for infinite money when they find a genie's lamp and get three wishes.
- Exploited: Make a secret forest of these trees. Infinite cash, that only you know of!
- Defied: The genie says that won't be possible because of the impact it would have on the economy at large.
- Discussed: "I wish I could just pick wads of cash from a money tree in Real Life!"
- Conversed: "Yeah, but think of the inflation!"
- Deconstructed: Artistic License – Economics; if money literally did grow on trees, it would have very little worth, thus driving up costs.
- Reconstructed: Society in this setting is a hippie utopia anyway, so there's no need for money anyway; people do favors for one another out of the goodness of their hearts, not in hopes of getting cash in return.
- Played For Drama: With all this worthless cash lying around, the economy (and thus society) spirals into a depression.
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