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* ''[[Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]'': A bamboo cutter finds a tiny thumb-sized, glowing baby inside a bamboo stem. He takes her home to his wife and they name her Kaguya-hime. She grows up to a normal-sized, unearthly beauty who many men, including the Emperor, fall in love with. She ends up returning to whence she came, the moon. This space alien subtext is stronger depending on the variation you read.

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': One episode of has Cow asking where she came from. When she asks her mom and dad, they tell her that she was born in a lettuce patch. She doesn't take this well nor does she accept it as the answer she is looking for.

* ''Manga/{{Mushishi}} features this with Kayo, a woman who was born from a bamboo shoot in a forest where the Magaridake ''mushi'' resides. To some extent her life force is tied to it as well, since [[spoiler:the water she drinks from it is what keeps her alive, and constitutes most of her body. Killing it kills her and her daughter after only half a year. In the end of the tale, both mother and daughter have been reborn in the bamboo shoots that grew over their graves, since a new Magaridake took residence in their bamboo thicket.]]

* This is how ''everyone'' is born in the world of ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms''. Special magical trees grow in every village, town and city and when a married couple pray to the heaven's before one a fruit may bud that when grown to a large enough size will split to produce a human infant (with individual branches marked to tell which fruit belongs to which couple). Not just people either, animals as well with similar trees being kept in villages for domestic livestock while ones deep in the woods produce wild animals and ''youkai'' while a single tree on a holy mountain gives birth to the ''{{Kirin}}'' for all of the twelve titular kingdoms as needed.

* This is how ''everyone'' is born in the world of ''LightNovel/TheTwelveKingdoms''. Special magical trees grow in every village, town and city and when a married couple pray to the heaven's before one a fruit may bud that when grown to a large enough size will split to produce a human infant (with individual branches marked to tell which fruit belongs to which couple). Not just people either, animals as well with similar trees being kept in villages for domestic livestock while ones deep in the woods produce wild animals and ''youkai'' while a single tree on a holy mountain gives birth to the ''{{Kirin}}'' for all of the twelve titular kingdoms as needed.

* ''ComicBook/PoisonIvy'': Is lnow for making plant animal hybrids to serve her.

* ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'', as essentially, she is a wingless fairy born from a flower, and she even gets wings part way through her story.
* ''[[Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]'': A bamboo cutter finds a tiny thumb-sized, glowing baby inside a bamboo stem. He takes her home to his wife and they name her Kaguya-hime. She grows up to a normal-sized, unearthly beauty who many men, including the Emperor, fall in love with. She ends up returning to whence she came, the moon. This space alien subtext is stronger depending on the variation you read.

* ''VideoGame/EverquestII'': The Fae are born from a special flower in a nursery not far off from the city of Kelethin. The race's affinity to nature means that whenever they pass away from natural causes or old age, their spirit is deposited into the flowers where a new Fae is born in a cycle of reincarnation. The Dark Elves of Neriak managed to steal away some of those flowers and used magic to corrupt them, leading to the creation of the evil Arasai race.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors'', the Monster Minds sprout from green organic vines.
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': One episode of has Cow asking where she came from. When she asks her mom and dad, they tell her that she was born in a lettuce patch. She doesn't take this well nor does she accept it as the answer she is looking for.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': The episode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE5HouseAndGarden House & Garden]]", Poison Ivy creates "children" that are grown from pods in a giant plant. They start out looking human, but eventually mutate into huge, hideous cactus-men.

* Myth/PhilippineMythology: The first man and woman were said to born from a bamboo tree that was split in half.

* ''Literature/{{Mabinogion}}'': The perfect woman Blodeuwedd is created from the flowers and growing things of the earth: her hair is effectively made of flowers. Later, for her sins and heartlessness, she is turned into the first owl and fated to haunt the night - the flowers that became human hair now mutate into feathers.

* ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'': The titular boy is discovered by an old couple inside a giant peach, taking the place of the peach pit. In older versions of the story, Momotaro was their biological child, and eating the peach instead [[FountainOfYouth made the old couple young enough]] to have children.
* The Javanese folktale [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timun_Mas Timun Mas]] tells the story of a girl who was born from a golden cucumber, hence her name.
* ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'', as essentially, she is a wingless fairy born from a flower, and she even gets wings part way through her story.
* ''[[Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]'': A bamboo cutter finds a tiny thumb-sized, glowing baby inside a bamboo stem. He takes her home to his wife and they name her Kaguya-hime. She grows up to a normal-sized, unearthly beauty who many men, including the Emperor, fall in love with. She ends up returning to whence she came, the moon. This space alien subtext is stronger depending on the variation you read.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Rykornians are born from giant corn-like stalks, and then use the husks they crawled out of as their homes.

This trope is when beings come out of plants. It's a form of magical, non-sexual birth, in a similar vein to DeliveryStork.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Poison Ivy creates "children" that are grown from pods in a giant plant. They start out looking human, but eventually mutate into huge, hideous cactus-men.

* In Philippine Mythology, the first man and woman were said to born from a bamboo tree that was split in half.

* ''[[Literature/TheTaleofTheBambooCutter The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]'': A bamboo cutter finds a tiny thumb-sized, glowing baby inside a bamboo stem. He takes her home to his wife and they name her Kaguya-hime. She grows up to a normal-sized, unearthly beauty who many men, including the Emperor, fall in love with. She ends up returning to whence she came, the moon. This space alien subtext is stronger depending on the variation you read.

* In the Welsh mythological cycle, The ''Literature/{{Mabinogion}}'', the perfect woman Blodeuwedd is created from the flowers and growing things of the earth: her hair is effectively made of flowers. Later, for her sins and heartlessness, she is turned into the first owl and fated to haunt the night - the flowers that became human hair now mutate into feathers.

* In France (and other European countries), when they wanted to avoid {{the Talk}}, parents sometimes told their children that little boys were born in cabbages and little girls in roses. This is becoming less and less common, though, and mostly {{played for laughs}}.

* The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter/The Tale of Princess Kaguya: A bamboo cutter finds a tiny thumb-sized, glowing baby inside a bamboo stem. He takes her home to his wife and they name her Kaguya-hime. She grows up to a normal-sized, unearthly beauty who many men, including the Emperor, fall in love with. She ends up returning to whence she came, the moon. This space alien subtext is stronger depending on the variation you read.

* {{Inverted}} in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} franchise'' with the fairy-type Flabebe line, where it's not that they are born from flowers, but that they live on, and turn into, a flower as they evolve, and possibly die. They are born from eggs like every other breedable Pokemon, and they start from hatching, already with a flower. Flabebe's sprite contains a large flower that they cling to. Flabébé's Y and Alpha Sapphire Pokedex entries states: "When it finds a flower it likes, it dwells on that flower its whole life long. It floats in the wind's embrace with an untroubled heart.", while the last sentence of the X and Omega Ruby entries is: "The flower Flabébé holds is most likely part of its body." As a Florges, it seems to become fused with its flower.

-->'''Jomon Tree:''' Your [(Freesia's)] birth flower must have been sympathetic to humans. [...]\\

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--> '''Jomon Tree:''' Your [(Freesia's)] birth flower must have been sympathetic to humans. [...]
--> Fairies are born from flowers and some types of flower enjoying living with humans. Your birth flower must have been one that enjoys being around humans.

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* Toys/CabbagePatchKids are born in cabbage patches.
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* ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'': The titular boy is discovered by an old couple inside a giant peach, taking the place of the peach pit.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': When Togemon, a giant catus, digivolves to Lilymon, a plant fairy, the TransformationSequence shows a rose blooming and releasing Lilymon.

* Inverted in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} franchise'' with the fairy-type Flabebe line, where it's not that they are born from flowers, but that they live on, and turn into, a flower as they evolve, and possibly die. They are born from eggs like every other breedable Pokemon, and they start from hatching, already with a flower. Flabebe's sprite contains a large flower that they cling to. Its Pokedex entry states: "When it finds a flower it likes, it dwells on that flower its whole life long. It floats in the wind's embrace with an untroubled heart." As it evolves to Floette and Florges, it seems to become fused with its flower.

* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'': The body snatchers take the form of flowers that touch a person, and then from a pod from where an emotionless duplicate emerges to KillAndReplace the original.