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  2. List of fictional plants - Wikipedia

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    Man-eating plant: A fictitious tree in the forests of Madagascar that possesses mobile, ensnaring stems. [citation needed] Spaghetti tree: A tree from which spaghetti is harvested. It was an April Fool's Day joke launched by the BBC TV programme Panorama in 1957.

  3. Category:Fictional plants - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fictional plants" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Man-eating plant - Wikipedia

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    A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...

  5. Strange Horticulture - Wikipedia

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    Described as an "occult puzzle game", [1] Strange Horticulture involves the discovery and identification of a fictitious herbarium of plants for sale to a range of mysterious and unscrupulous customers. Gameplay involves the completion of puzzles by matching the details of customer requests of plants to their descriptions, opening up access to ...

  6. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    True to its name, Chlorophyte has plant-themed properties, and can be used to craft armor and weapons that harness the powers of plants. It can be combined with glowing mushrooms to make Shroomite, a blue fungi-themed version of the same metal used in ranged weapons and armor, or with ectoplasm to create Spectre Bars, a glowing ghost-themed ...

  7. Lists of fictional species - Wikipedia

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  8. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    "In tribute to the author Terry Pratchett OBE, all the new fossil plant species diagnosed and described in this paper are named for fictional characters who appear in his series of Discworld novels." [144] †Ginkgoites weatherwaxiae Watson et al., 2001: Ginkgo: Granny Weatherwax †Ginkgoites nannyoggiae Watson et al., 2001: Ginkgo: Nanny Ogg

  9. Human uses of plants - Wikipedia

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    Both real and fictitious plants play a wide variety of roles in literature and film. [41] Plants' roles may be evil, as with the triffids , carnivorous plants with a whip-like poisonous sting as well as mobility provided by three foot-like appendages, from John Wyndham 's 1951 science fiction novel The Day of the Triffids , and subsequent films ...