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* In ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', Horok, Xayide the witch's hand-shaped castle, is surrounded by a forest of orchids taller than a man -- orchids that also happen to be [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]], thus serving as a first layer of protection around her lair.
* ''Literature/PettsonAndFindus'': There are some giant flowers, especially dandelions, in the background. They are [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight completely ignored by the characters or the narrator]], and are just there as an artistic choice by the author (who is also the illustrator).

* These giant flowers can be quite effective at adding to a magical, even fairytale background especially with the strong association of flowers with [[FlowersOfRomance love]], beauty and magic.

* In the ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' episode "The Flower Plot", Whispy Woods has the fortune of having a flower grow right in front of him, which he names Lovely. However, King Dedede transforms Lovely into a monster. Like in the video games, Lovely deceives others with her adorable face. Unlike the games, she goes OneWingedAngel and tries to suck the life out of Whispy.

* In the third-to-last episode of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', [[TheDragon Joker]] sends Cure Peace and her [[EvilKnockoff Bad End counterpart]] into a PocketDimension full of giant flowers to fight. While flowers of all shapes and colors are present, the two spend most of the battle on a single red flower that's larger than all the others.

* [[https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/2016/2016-05-03.gif This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip has Garfield walking next to a daisy almost twice his size without batting an eye. According to the cat, it really had rained a lot.

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* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': Horok, Xayide the witch's hand-shaped castle, is surrounded by a forest of orchids taller than a man — orchids that also happen to be carnivorous, thus serving as a first layer of protection around her lair.
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* In the ''Literature/PettsonAndFindus'' picture books, there are some giant flowers, especially dandelions, in the background. They are [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight completely ignored by the characters or the narrator]], and are just there as an artistic choice by the author (who is also the illustrator).

* "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by ''Music/TheBeatles'' has two passages of towering flowers, such as "cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head..." and "everyone smiles as your drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high..."

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module [=EX2=] ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror'', which is based on Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''. The PlayerCharacters will encounter a flowerbed filled with 10-foot-tall versions of normal flowers. The flowers are magical, not just because of their size, but because they can talk, have petals made of precious metals and huge jewels for eyes.
* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' module [=GW6=] ''Alpha Factor''. In the area around Mindkeep, there are multiple areas with flowers up to 20 meters high, including the Rainbow Forest (petunias), Ice Forest (daisies), Fire Forest (snapdragons) and Rose Fields. The giant plants are mutations caused by the nightmarish effects that reduced the planet to an AfterTheEnd setting.

* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'''s resident floral demon Alraune can summon giant demonic flowers that can spit sticky goo on Bayonetta, immobilizing her for a short time.
* In ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', the giant plant Dreamstalk is topped with an equally giant flower. [[spoiler:In the climax, the BigBad Queen Sectonia merges with said flower as her OneWingedAngel.]]
* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', Luigi can water a seedling growing in the Boneyard once during each chapter. Water it enough and it grows into a huge red flower that is bigger than Luigi himself. It then matures into a big fruit, which contains a diamond.
* The Sunflower in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' is one big sunflower. It seems at least four times as big as the rest of the main cast.

* The Spider Queen in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' masquerades as a giant and creepy flower with eyes in place of the stamens to lure unsuspecting prey. After defeat, she transforms into a giant lotus flower several times bigger than Amaterasu.

* The regular sunflowers in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' are already rather big, but the Great Sunflower takes it much further, being several times as big as Mario.
* In ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', when Yoshi hits certain ? Clouds, the clouds will reveal a sunflower seed. When the seed hits the ground, it will grow into a giant sunflower, and Yoshi must climb to the top of it by jumping on its leaves.
* The Origami Gardens in ''VideoGame/YoshisCraftedWorld'' are filled with various flowers several time bigger that Yoshi and the local fauna alike.

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* In the 1966 ''WesternAnimation/TheLoneRanger1966'' cartoon, in the episode "Forest of Death", a MadScientist has created a large variety of dangerous, mutant plants. One of these is a [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous bloom]] large enough to eat a grown man.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'', Sheen is asked to fight a fearsome beast. He is shown a picture of it and sees that it's dwarfed by a flower and agrees to fight it. Later on, he starts to reconsider when he finds the flower and it's as tall as a redwood.
* During the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon Jungle Moon]]", the titular moon where [[FusionDance Stevonnie]] is trapped is home to trees that more closely resemble giant flowers than Earth trees.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Keeping Up with the Bigheads," Rocko plants some seeds to make his yard look better (in order to avoid his house being condemned by Ed Bighead's nephew.) After [[ToiletHumor Heffer fertilizes the lawn]], only one little flower comes up...but then the ground begins to shake, and several daisies the size of ''trees'' pop up, as well as random patches of grass.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': The [[ArtificialHuman Synths]] of Coppelius defend their planet with OrganicTechnology "Orchids." These flowers are the size of a starship, can propel themselves through space, and can disable a ship's power systems on contact.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dawn}}'' has flowers big enough for Ash to use them as trampolines when he jumps up and down on them.

* These giant flowers can be quite effective at adding at a magical, even fairytale background especially with the strong association of flowers with [[FlowersOfRomance love]], beauty and magic.
* Them giant blossoms can also fit in a dense jungle-like biome, they tallness reflecting the triumph of plant life.

* In the 1966 ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger'' cartoon, in the episode "Forest of Death", a MadScientist has created a large variety of dangerous, mutant plants. One of these is a [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous bloom]] large enough to eat a grown man.

* They can convey an alien and otherworldy flair to an atmosphere, just like its FungusHumongous sister trope.

** Perhaps the biggest flower of them all is the one on which Titania is built. Yes, it is big enough for an ''entire town'' to be built on top of it. From above it is approximaively two dozen of times the size of the player's ship.

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* In ''Film/StarWars'', the [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle planet]] Felucia is completely covered in thick, thriving forests of enormous plants and fungi: besides [[FungusHumongous giant purple mushrooms the size of trees]], the Felucian jungles are also home to numerous trumpet-shaped blue flowers the size of houses.
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In RealLife, flowers rarely are bigger than a few decimeters tall, the biggest ones being the rafflesia, which can reach 1 meter in diameter (3,3ft) and the titan arum, whose inflorescence is the tallest in the world, reaching more than 3 meters high. However, in fiction, blossoms can be ''much'' larger and taller than that. Many reasons can explain the use of those behemothic flowers:

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': One of the few stable features of the Positive Energy Plane, the fiery realm where souls germinate before moving on to animate living beings in the rest of the universe, is a grove of crystalline flowers tall as the tallest trees in the material world, each lit from within by an eternally burning light -- except for a few that are dark and dead, and fewer still that are shattered and guttering. These flowers are lovingly tended and almost worshipped by the jyoti, BirdFolk-like entities who tend and guard the plane’s fields of immature souls, and each massive flower is known to represent [[DeityOfHumanOrigin a mortal soul who rose to godhood]] -- the dead flowers are those whose gods died, the defiled ones are of gods who embraced undeath.

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* In ''Film/StarWars'', the [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle planet]] Felucia is completely covered in thick, thriving forests of enormous plants and fungi: besides [[FungusHumongous giant purple mushrooms the size of trees]], the Felucian jungles are also home to numerous trumpet-shaped blue flowers the size of houses.

* The Spider Queen in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' masquarades as a giant and creepy flower with eyes in place of the stamens to lure unsuspecting preys. After defeat, she transforms into a giant lotus flower several times bigger than Amaterasu.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module [=EX2=] ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror'', which is based on Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''. The PlayerCharacters will encounter a flowerbed filled with 10 foot tall versions of normal flowers. The flowers are magical, not just because of their size, but because they can talk, have petals made of precious metals and huge jewels for eyes.

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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's A Crowd]]", Discord claims to have contracted an illness called the Blue Flu, which can only be cured by brewing a tisane out of the petals of a type of daisy growing at the very edges of Equestria. When Twilight and Cadance arrive at the daisy's location, they discover a little detail Discord left out: the flower is a good couple of stories tall, with a stem the girth of a good-sized tree trunk and petals big enough to completely cover a pony they fall on top of.

In RealLife, flowers rarely are bigger than a few decimeters tall, the biggest ones being the rafflesia, which can reach 1 meter in diameter (3,3ft) and the titan arum, whose inflorescence is the tallest in the world, reaching more than 3 meters high.However, in fiction, blossoms can be ''much'' taller than that. Many reasons can explain the use of those behemothic flowers:

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', winning Sburb causes the planet Skaia to germinate a new universe, during which time its surface [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4021 blooms]] with lily pads large enough to see from outer space.

* During the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon Jungle Moon]]", when [[FusionDance Stevonne]] is trapped on the eponymous moon all the the trees on it more closely resemble giant flowers rather than earth trees.

* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', before and during the TimeSkip, Usopp is trapped in a strange forest island with only a man named Heracles keeping him company. Then the "island" suddenly folds itself - and the island is revealed to actually be a giant carnivorous flower. With the help of Heracles, Usopp managed to survive there for 2 years.

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* ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'':

** There is also the verdant Leadbeater and Stainrod's Nature Reserve, which is built in a lush and verdant if threatening area of the Reach, which features among other giant tubular flowers.

* During the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Jungle Moon", when [[FusionDance Stevonne]] is trapped on the eponymous moon all the the trees on it more closely resemble giant flowers rather than earth trees.

[[caption-width-right:282:Much bigger than your average begonia.]]

* The wooded Realm of the Fay in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' is some sort of MacroZone covered with ridiculously tall plants, and the Lotus Lake located in the middle of it features gigantic [[GlowingFlora glowing]] pink lotus flower to bring in the SceneryPorn.