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15	[[quoteright:350:[[Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaguyabamboo.png]]]]
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17	In science fiction, beings with BizarreAlienBiology, or in fantasy, magical beings, which would then overlap with NatureSpirit, don't have to be created through typical biological processes. This trope is when beings are grown out of plants. It's a form of [[BornOfMagic magical]], non-sexual birth, in a similar vein to DeliveryStork.
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19	The beings may come from flowers, [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables fruit or vegetable plants or trees]]. The beings may look like regular beings or they may look different and/or have different powers or abilities. As well, the plant-grown beings may be good and benevolent or they may be evil, malicious beings.
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21	The idea may come from the fact that in nature, fruit is born from flowers, so this trope basically applies this concept to sentient beings.
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23	Compare PlantPerson, who may or may not be born from a plant, but does show plant-like characteristics, and GrowsOnTrees, which is for things that grow on trees, specifically.
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25	This may also be how a WonderChild is created.
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33	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
34	* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': When Togemon, a giant cactus, digivolves to Lilymon, a plant fairy, the TransformationSequence shows a rose blooming from Togemon's head and releasing Lilymon.
35	* ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'': Ha-chan, the baby fairy, is born when she emerges from a ball of light from a pink flower.
36	* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'''s second season is kicked off with Hana-chan being born by emerging out of a blue rose.
37	* ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' features this with Setsu, 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 the water she drinks from it is what keeps her alive, and constitutes most of her body. [[spoiler:Killing it kills her and her daughter after only half a year. At the end of the chapter, 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.]]
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40	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
41	* In the first episode of ''Animation/ToobaToobaNoonbory'', a giant pink lotus flowers blooms, and from it comes a little girl. This little girl is named [=PinkAru=], and becomes a primary cast member as she is adopted into Noonbory and Hanubi's family.
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44	[[folder:Comic Books]]
45	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Poison Ivy is known for making plant animal hybrids to serve her.
46	* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': The original Swamp Thing was {{retcon}}ned into being a plant that thought it was a human. Rebirth from plants is par for course for any avatar of the Green.
47	* ''Comicbook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Rykornians are born from giant corn-like stalks, and then use the husks they crawled out of as their homes.
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50	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
51	* Tale type ATU 407, "The Girl as Flower", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, deals with the heroine as a flower: either cursed to become a flower, or ''born'' as one. In the latter tales, when the tree or branch that the heroine comes from becomes a large tree, the heroine simply comes out of the plant as an adult maiden:
52	** ''[[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433088071380&view=1up&seq=64&skin=2021 The Daughter of the Rose]]'' (Romania).
53	* ''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.
54	* ''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.
55	* ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'': 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.
56	* ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'', as essentially, she is a wingless fairy born from a flower, and she even gets wings part way through her story.
57	* 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.
58	* ''Literature/UrikohimeAndTheAmanojaku'': Urikohime is a woman born from a melon. Technically "uri" means any cucurbit, but the common interpretation is specifically a melon. Her EvilCounterpart, the amanojaku, rarely is also born from a melon.
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62	* ''Fanfic/HalkegeniaOnline'': As said in Chapter 34:
63	--> wild pixies are like little helpers to Yggdrasil, they protect and tend to World Tree and its offshoots. They spawn from a rare species of flower that only buds in the presence of the World Tree or one of its shoots and only blossoms on the night of a full moon. [=ALfheim=] lore says that Navigation Pixies are wild pixies that are born from a Yggdrasil Blossom that blooms in captivity.
64	* In the third story of ''Fanfic/TheSmurfetteVillage'' series, the Smurfs discover their birth origin as born from plants grown in a garden that is watched over by the goddess Gaia.
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67	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
68	* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'': The body snatchers take the form of flowers that touch a person, and then form a pod from where the original dies when their emotionless duplicate emerges, making the "kill" part of KillAndReplace, essentially automatic.
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72	* In ''The Cabbage Patch Fib'' by Creator/PaulJennings, a father tells his son the story about babies growing out of cabbages, so the boy goes to look in the cabbage patch and finds a green baby that apparently ''did'' grow out of a cabbage.
73	* 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.
74	* [[spoiler: The "piggies" of the ''Literature/EndersGame'' sequels reproduce this way, as does all other complex life on their planet; this was an adaptation to survive [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the]] [[ThePlague Descolada]].]]
75	* In the ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses'', princesses are planted.
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79	* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': In "The Cabbage Patch Fib", Pete tells his little brother Bronson the story about babies growing out of cabbages, so Bronson goes to look in the cabbage patch and finds a green baby that apparently ''did'' grow out of a cabbage.
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83	* Myth/PhilippineMythology: The first man and woman were said to be born from a bamboo tree that was split in half.
84	* In France (and other European countries), when they wanted to avoid TheTalk, 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 PlayedForLaughs.
85	* In the ''Literature/{{Mabinogion}}'', the perfect woman [[ArtificialHuman 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.
86	* In Myth/BrazilianFolklore, Sacis-Pererês -- mischievous tricksters with the appearance of a black child with one leg and a magic red cap who like to play pranks on humans -- are said to be born from bamboo sticks.
87	* In Myth/NorseMythology, the Aesir created the first humans, Ask and Embla, from trees.
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91	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventure [=OA7=] ''Test of the Samurai''. The PlayerCharacters can meet Oe-Urai, AKA the Peachling Girl. One day while a man was fishing, he found a peach floating in the water. After he picked up the peach, it burst open and out stepped Oe-Urai.
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95	* Toys/CabbagePatchKids are born in cabbage patches.
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99	* ''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.
100	* ''VideoGame/FairyBloomFreesia'': Fairies are born from flowers, and inherit qualities, like disposition to humans, from them, as said by the Jomon Tree in Day 10, as he attributes Freesia's sympathy to humans due to her birth flower:
101	-->'''Jomon Tree:''' ''(to Freesia)'' Your birth flower must have been sympathetic to humans. […]\
102	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.
103	* {{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.
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107	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': The episode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE5HouseAndGarden House & Garden]]", [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy 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.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': One episode 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.
109	* In ''WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors'', the Monster Minds sprout from green organic vines.
110	* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', the pixies are born from a huge flower called The Tree of Life.
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115	Jellyfish and other medusozoans are the closest equivalent to this trope in real life, beginning life as a stationary, anemone-like "polyp", which several mobile adult "medusas" then bud off from.
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