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* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'': the devil fruits that give eaters superpowers.

* ''[[Rosario to Vampire (Manga)|Rosario to+ Vampire]]'': the monster Durian in Capu 2.

* ''[[Toriko (Manga)|Toriko]]'' is built on this trope and others like it.

* Not used for laughs in the manga ''[[Sugar Dark]]'' where one of a series of monstrously sized, practically unstoppable undead [[Eldritch Abomination]] called "The Dark" had been buried under an tree, tainting and mutating its growing fruits with its essence. The adorable, yet horribly [[Woobie|woobieishwoobie]]ish [[Moe]], Meria, ate one of the fruits of the tree and absorbed its power, turning her into a [[Nigh Invincible]] creature whom members of the [[Masquerade]] use to lure the "The Dark" into killing and torturing her in various ways before they become incapacitated by the upcoming sunlight and buried into the ground, which is the only way of sealing them off from harming humanity.

{{quote| '''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka]]''': And when you lick a snozzberry, it tastes just [[Shaped Like Itself|exactly like a snozzberry]]...}}

* [[CSC. Lewis (Creator)|CSS. Lewis]] describes some in his ''[[The Space Trilogy|Perelandra]]''. Of course, they are on Venus.

** ''[[The MagiciansChronicles of Narnia]]'' had some as well. ''[[The Magician's Nephew]]'' has the tree with the silver apples -- aapples—a direct reference to the Tree of Knowledge from [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] -- one—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 ''[[The Silver Chair]]'', 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 ''[[The Last Battle]]'' 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.

* ''[[The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales]]'' by Frank Stockton: the story ''Christmas Before Last'' has the Fruit of the Fragile Palm. It's similar to a coconut, but the inside is so delicious that it's worth as much as diamonds or pearls.

* Dayig fruit, from ''[[Summers at Castle Auburn]]''. The main character's uncle uses it to pose a sort of personality test to a hunting party: The fruit is absolutely delicious, but full of tiny, poisonous seeds. Would you risk trying it? {{spoiler|Later subverted: the seeds aren't poisonous at all, and he was just playing mind games with the group.}}

* Loads in the ''[[Star Trek Novel Verse]]''. Zalkatian ''Clamdas'', Betazoid ''Hilrep'', ''Horvas'', Andorian ''Vithi'', many, many more.

* The [[Land of Oz]] featured a lot of these-, such as the lunch pails grewinggrowing on trees featured in ''Ozma of Oz''.

== [[Live -Action TelevisionTV]] ==

* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] offscreen in the [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[Stargate SG -1|Wormhole X-Treme]]'', when Martin Lloyd tells a prop guy to "get some kiwis and spray-paint them green" for a scene, instead of using [[How Do You Like Them Apples?|apples]].

{{quote| '''[[Deadpan Snarker|Prop Guy]]''': So, now the scene reads, "Colonel Danning walks into the orchard, says 'How like Eden this world is', and bites into a painted kiwi."}}

* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary:Vegetable Lamb of Tartary|Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]], which is believed to ''grow sheep as its fruit''.

== [[Tabletop RPGGames]] ==

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' has the* Death's Head Tree. Its fruit resembles heads (those of the bodies the tree has eaten) that can spit seeds like bullets.

* Used to [[Squick|Squickiest]]iest effect in the monster list "Dark Menagerie" of ''[[SwordsScarred And SworceryLands]]''. Gaurak the Glutton, one of the titans sealed into the land of Scarn by the gods, would offer his most devoted followers tainted greasy melons that turn them into disgusting, greasy folds of fat hardly able to walk and swarming with lard worms that eat anything unlucky enough to suffocate in their folds.

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has a wide variety of berries since their introduction in generation II that can improve a Mon's abilities. Since generation III, they have [[Punny Name|Punny Names]]s like the titular [[Mons]].

** Heck, there's even Pokemon who are fruits or vegetables: Exeggecute, Sunkern, Seedot, Ludicolo, Tropius (technically its banana beard), Cherubi, Cherrim, Whimiscott (based on the cotton plant as well as the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary:Vegetable Lamb of Tartary|Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]]), Ferroseed and Ferrothorn (if horse-chestnuts are considered as "fruit"). There's also [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Applin_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Applin], an apple-Mon that can evolve into ''three flavors'' of apple pie Mon!

* The mushrooms from the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series.

* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Videovideo Gamegame)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' series has the star-shaped Paopu fruit, which supposedly links the destinies of those who share one.

* The ''[[Tales Series(series)]]'' games have, in addition to the usual selection of apples, bananas, etc., a pair of recurring fictional fruits called "kirima" and "amango".

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Videovideo Gamegame)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games seem to have these, when there's a Chao-raising virtual pet minigame. In the original ''Sonic Adventure'', at least, you have cubicle fruit, triangle fruit, and round fruit, and then more special ones like Chao fruit ,<ref> shaped like Chao heads, increases a Chao's normal stats for every bite</ref>, and heart fruit .<ref> pink and heart-shaped, makes a Chao fertile and interested in breeding with other Chao</ref>. There are also the mushrooms, which increase the hidden intelligence and luck stats and look suspiciously like Mario 1-Up mushrooms.

* [http://dogscape.blogspot.com/2010/10/log-one.html "Dogscape"], one of [[Creepypasta]]'s creepiest and [[Squick|Squicktastic]]tastic stories http://dogscape.blogspot.com/2010/10/log-one.html had the "puppy fruits".

* Just about anything the [[Hobbits|Kiwi]] can grow on ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Galaxy Rangers]]''. An episode involved trees that grew nutritious marshmallows.

* In one episode of ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', among the gifts given to Fry after he leaves the Planet Express to sleep in Bender's apartment is a miniature fruit salad tree offered by Leela. Fry picks a tiny banana among the half-inch sized fruits, eats it, and tosses the skin on the floor (which Amy promptly slips on).

* ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]]'': in the episode "[[Forbidden Fruit]]" one of their newest team members, a techno-organic vehicon with a bat mode named Nightscream, offers the members fruits from a towering organic fruit tree to help their organic components. However, the fruit magnifies their bestial sides that dominates over their robotic minds, turning them animalistic and feral. The maximals are restored when Cheetor (the only one who rejected the fruit out of misguided suspicion of Nightscream) cuts down the tree's trunk.

* Much of the action in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Family Appreciation Day" involves the Apple family being busy with the harvest of Zap Apples, a magical breed of apple that sprouts delicious rainbow-colored fruit... fruit which only grows following a series of ominous-looking signs, and which disappears not long after if it's not picked as soon as possible.

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