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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': The fruit that most people eat is a mutant plant called a mutfruit, which is descended from apples. The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' DLC ''Point Lookout'' features the Punga fruit, which the local tribals cultivate, worship, and trade for its anti-radiation properties.

* Every once in a while in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'', the player will see rare, alternative colored variations of fruits (except for coconuts) that sell more than their regular colored counterparts, often called Perfect.

** Different types of giant ManEatingPlant produce fruit to lure in their prey; Team Touden retrieves some of the fruit and make it into a tart. A footnote mentions that different kinds of plants produce different fruit: the digestive types' are juicy and sweet, while the fertilizer types' are dense and full-flavored.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon''
** Different types of giant ManEatingPlant produce fruit to lure in their prey; Team Touden actually manages to retrieve some of said fruit, which they then cook into a tart. A footnote mentions that different kinds of plants produce different fruit: the digestive types' are juicy and sweet, while the fertilizer types' are dense and full-flavored.
** In a later chapter, it's shown that pollinated [[PlantPerson dryad]] flowers eventually turn into pumpkin-like fruits with human faces on them. [[NightmareFetishist Laios]] is appropriately excited to eat them and Marcille is equally and appropriately freaked out.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is built on this trope and others like it.

* In fairy tales classified as tale type ATU 566, "The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits (Fortunatus)" (of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index), the hero gains three magical objects that are stolen by a princess. In revenge, he finds some fruits that can make horns grow on a person's head and uses them on her. Depending on the variant, the fruits may be figs or apples.

** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsAWonderfulLife'' (and the original, ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'') have hybrid crops, which are a blend of two regular crops of the same kind done through the plant Vinnie. (e.g. Bananas with Peaches, or Strawberries with Tomatoes). Then those hybrids can blend into second-level hybrids. There's also blending seeds with various foraged flowers to imprive seed quality, seasonal growth, and hardiness, and in the remake blending the wild Trick Blue with any plant makes a blue variant that sells for more than the original.

* Every once in a while in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'', the player will see rare, alternative colored variations of fruits (except for coconuts) that sell more than their regular colored counterparts.

* ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher'' has a number of different fruits and vegetables you can feed to your slimes, and all are pretty bizarre (except for the carrots). Heart-shaped beets, pears with spikes, mint-flavored mangoes, metallic parsnips, lemons that exist partly out of phase with our reality...

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has a wide variety of fruits simply known as "berries" since their introduction in generation II. Since generation III, they have {{Punny Name}}s and odd appearances and mysterious properties like the titular {{Mons}}. These mainly serve as the main food source for most Pokemon.

** The legendary witch Granny Weatherwax keeps a garden of "...''herbs''" (ellipsis and italics mandatory) for medicine-making and other applications of her craft. It's ambiguous how much of their magic is intrinsic and how much is [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve from the knowledge]] that they are "...''herbs''" from a witch's garden... but the plants do turn to watch passers-by.

!!Authors:
* Creator/RoaldDahl liked these. Snozzcumbers from ''Literature/TheBFG'' (which were so disgusting the giants preferred to [[ImAHumanitarian eat children instead]], with the exception of the eponymous Big Friendly Giant who [[DefectorFromDecadence put up with the foul taste]]) come to mind.
** Quentin Blake's illustrations of snozzcumbers resemble gigantic cousins of the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momordica_charantia bitter gourd]].
--->'''[[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]''': And when you lick a snozzberry, it tastes just exactly like a snozzberry...
* Creator/DrSeuss likewise used them a lot.
* Creator/CSLewis describes some in his ''[[Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy Perelandra]]''. Of course, they are on Venus.
** ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' has the tree with the silver apples -- a direct reference to the Tree of Knowledge from Literature/TheBible -- one of which cures Digory's mother's apparently fatal illness. There's also the toffee-fruit tree he and Polly plant, which is sadly never heard of again. Later, in ''Literature/TheSilverChair'', it turns out that way beneath the surface of Narnia's world, precious metals and gems are living plants that produce fruit. And of course the heaven in ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' has a tree whose fruit, in true C.S. Lewis style, can only be described by saying how much better it is than everything that exists in the real world.
*** It's implied that the first and last examples are one and the same, only now [[spoiler: the characters eating it are both dead and in the kingdom of Aslan, so they get the full bore of it.]]

!!Individual works:

* ''Fanfic/FamilyOfTheShield'' has Naofumi Iwatani and his daughter [[PlantPerson Teal]] use their GreenThumb abilities on Bioplant Seeds in order to create [[MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop a myriad of different fast-growing nutritious fruits and vegetables from them]] ranging from the ordinary Fruit Bushes used in Lerno Village, the Potato-like "Netting Roots" that will just keep growing downwards unless planted in a box or other container, and the Apple-like "Swirlers" that switched between orange and red which determines whether the Swirler would be Sweet or Sour when picked.

* ''Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges'': The premise of the tale and its variants is that the hero searches for fruits that release adult maidens for him to marry. More often than not, the fruits are citrus fruits, which include citrons, lemons, oranges, bitter oranges and bermagots. Alternatively, the hero may find apples, pumpkins, cucumbers, and even reeds.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': The fruit that most people eat is a mutant plant called a mutfruit. The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' DLC ''Point Lookout'' features the Punga fruit, which the local tribals cultivate, worship, and trade.

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', given its significant EarthDrift compared to the rest of the series, has numerous examples which are native to Vvardenfell and are cultivated by the Dunmer. For example, Comberries are bitter-sour berries used to make alcohol. Ash Yams are root vegetable similar to potatoes with a very distinctive odor. Saltrice is a white/gray stalk vegetable said to be very "tasty and nutritious". Muck is a fibrous slime harvested from fungus-like "muckspunge" plants that is mildly toxic, but if properly prepared, can be used to cure common diseases. Marshmerrow is a leafy green with modest healing properties. Trama Root is a bitter-tasting shrub root used to brew tea. Numerous other examples are found throughout the game as well.
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': Everything found in the ''Shivering Isles'' expansion, with a large side order of FungusHumongous.
** ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': While most of the fruits and vegetables in Skyrim are quite close to their real-world counterpart (potatoes, wheat, cabbage, apples, and so on) there is also snowberries, which grow exclusively in extreme cold environments where few other edible plants can live. They are useful for crafting potions to resist different types of magic damage and are an ingredient in several pastries that the player can make.

* In fairy tales classified as tale type ATU 566, "The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits (Fortunatus)" (of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index), the hero gains three magical objects that are stolen by a princess. In revenge, he finds some fruits that can make horns grow on a person's head and uses them on her. Depending on the variant, the fruits may be figs or apples.
* ''Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges'': The premise of the tale and its variants is that the hero searches for fruits that release adult maidens for him to marry. More often than not, the fruits are citrus fruits, which include citrons, lemons, oranges, bitter oranges and bermagots. Alternatively, the hero may find apples, pumpkins, cucumbers, and even reeds.

* In fairy tales classified as tale type ATU 566, "The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits (Fortunatus)" (of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index), the hero gains three magical objects that are stolen by a princess. In revenge, he finds some fruits that can make horns grow on a person's head. Depending on the variant, the fruits may be figs or apples.