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* [[Land of Oz]] series:
** In ''Ozma of Oz'', Dorothy and co. come upon lunch-box trees in the country of Ev, which contain a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge-cake, a pickle, a slice of new cheese, and an apple. The trees also grow napkins.
** In ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', the inhabitants of Oogaboo are named after the crops they grow on their orchard
* ''[[Snow Crash]]'' has a dog whose virtual reality includes steaks growing on trees.
* [[Discworld]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' takes this trope to extremes. A god of evolution causes trees and bushes to sprout with anything the wizards who land on the island desire, up to and including cigarettes (and many other bizarre examples, but I don't have the book on hand at the moment).
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* The illustrations to the classic children's book ''Ferdinand the Bull'' feature a cork tree that has bottle corks growing on its branches like acorns. In [[Real Life]], cork does grow on trees, but as bark.
* ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex'' has an illustration depicting the Colombian condom bush (''[[Sdrawkcab Name|Citcalyhporp rebbur]]'').
* In Norman Juster's ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'', words grow on trees. When Milo questions this, they point out that money doesn't grow on trees, but something
* In the French story ''La sorciere du placard à balais'' (The witch from the broom closet), the main character ends up with a macaroni tree in his garden.
* In Douglas Adams' ''[[Life the Universe And Everything]]'', it is explained that since the universe is so very large, everything one could possibly manufacture is growing somewhere as a natural product. The two things he mentions specifically are mattresses (apparently a swamp-dwelling animal species), and screwdriver trees.
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