Fictional plants are plants that have been thought up, and do not exist in real life. Fictional plants appear in films, literature, television, or other media.
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- Akarso - a plant characterized by almost oblong leaves. Its green and white stripes indicate the constant multiple condition of parallel active and dormant chlorophyll regions, from the Dune universe.
- Axis - a gigantic coiling tree which stretches high above the clouds in the computer generated movie Kaena: The Prophecy
- Audrey Jr./Audrey II - carnivorous extraterrestrial plant from Little Shop of Horrors
- Barnacle tree - mythical tree believed in the Middle Ages to have barnacles that opened to reveal geese
- Biollante - a monster plant of titanic proprotions in the movie Godzilla vs Biollante
- Bubotuber - fictional plant in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. They are thick, black, slug-like plants that extend perpendicularly to the soil. It is normal for them to squirm and they are covered in pus-filled swellings.
- Cleopatra - carnivorous plant in The Adams Family series
- Elowan - a race of plant-like creatures in Starflight computer game
- Giraluna - a plant with paramimetic qualities, evident in its metallic seeds, or spherostills, on its corona, in Parallel Botany by Leo Lionni
- Inkvine - a creeping plant frequently used to whip in the slave cribs in the Dune universe
- Killerwillows, trappersnappers, wiltmilts, berrywishes, pluggyrugs, snaptrap trees an others - from Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
- Krynoids - extraterrestrial carnivorous plants in episode The Seeds of Doom from Doctor Who TV series
- Peahat, Deku Scrubs, Deku Baba - races of plant-like cretures from The Legend of Zelda series of video games
- Peya - plant from Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Rroamal - dangerous creeping parasite vine, from Decision at Doona, by Anne McCaffrey
- Rytt - plant from War Against the Rull by A. E. Van Vogt
- Sser - a bush with red poisonous berries which smelled deceptively sweet, from Decision at Doona, by Anne McCaffrey
- Stinky - a plant on Sesame Street
- Supox utricularia - a race of kind, sentient plant creatures from Star Control computer game series
- Tirils - fictional plants from Parallel Botany by Leo Lionni. One species, Tirillus silvador, has the extraordinary ability to produce shrill, whistling sounds audible to two or three hundred meters.
- Traversers - giant vegetal spider analogues which spin their webs between Earth and Moon in Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
- Tree-of-Life - from Larry Niven's Known Space novels
- Triffids - carnivorous plants which are able to move and possess a whip-like poisonous sting, from the novel The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham. They subsequently appeared in a radio series (BBC, 1960), a motion picture (1962), a TV series (BBC, 1981) and a sequel novel, The Night of The Triffids (2001) by Simon Clark.
- Tumtum tree - appears in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky found in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Vegetable Lamb of Tartary - a mythical plant used by medieval thinkers to explain the existence of cotton
- Whomping Willow - a large, violent, magical tree, striking at those who dare approach it with its branches, from Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling