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Author: Theriocephalus

Dec 5th 2017 at 6:09:04 PM

All right, a few things.

Firstly, I think the description should include the narrative uses of this trope. From the examples, I'm guessing this would mostly be used as a vegetable equivalent of AlienSky, AlienSea and AlienLandmass (i.e. a visual shorthand to communicate that you're in a strange, alien or unfamiliar place), as SceneryPorn, as naturally occurring illumination in otherwise dark areas or some mixture thereof, yes?

Secondly, given that three examples out of five are mushrooms, it might also be good to mention that fungi as well as plants are used in  this manner as an offshoot of fiction's tendency to treat these two kingdoms of life as one and the same.

Thirdly, an example of my own:

[[AC:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''FIlm/{{Avatar}}'': The alien jungles of Pandora contain an enormous variety of bioluminescent plants, with almost every form of plant life giving off some blue or purple glow. This results in some very surreal forests, and the nighttime experience is as such rather different from nights on Earth -- it's a whole lot less dark, to begin with.