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The agricultural equivalent of [[Green Rocks]]. If this particular crop/livestock's production is the foundation for an entire culture, it can help define a [[Planet of Hats]] or [[One Product Planet]]. May be an indication of current or [[Lost Technology|Lost]] [[Organic Technology]] within the setting. [[Soylent Soy]] may be an example, if derived from a single crop species rather than blending two or more. |
The agricultural equivalent of [[Green Rocks]]. If this particular crop/livestock's production is the foundation for an entire culture, it can help define a [[Planet of Hats]] or [[One Product Planet]]. May be an indication of current or [[Lost Technology|Lost]] [[Organic Technology]] within the setting. [[Soylent Soy]] may be an example, if derived from a single crop species rather than blending two or more. |
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== Anime and Manga == |
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
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* ''[[Robotech]]'' has the Invid Flower of Life. Scientific discoveries derived from this plant triggered the protoculture wars, as the Robotech Masters seek to control its secrets, the Invid go on a genocidal Roaring Rampage Of Revenge in response, and Earth is caught in the middle. Among the products produced from it: |
* ''[[Robotech]]'' has the Invid Flower of Life. Scientific discoveries derived from this plant triggered the protoculture wars, as the Robotech Masters seek to control its secrets, the Invid go on a genocidal Roaring Rampage Of Revenge in response, and Earth is caught in the middle. Among the products produced from it: |
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{{quote|Chemicals used in genetic engineering, allowing the creation of the Robotech Masters' Henchmen Race, the Zentraedi. |
{{quote|Chemicals used in genetic engineering, allowing the creation of the Robotech Masters' Henchmen Race, the Zentraedi. |
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A catalyst critical to operation of the Robotech Masters' FTL drive. }} |
A catalyst critical to operation of the Robotech Masters' FTL drive. }} |
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== [[Literature]] == |
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⚫ | * In the ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series, Home Trees of Midworld provide food, shelter, and an organic security-system. Pika-pina, from Tran-ky-ky, can be made into sailcloth, paper or rope, its nutrient-rich nodules are edible raw or cooked, and its leaves can be eaten plain, ground into flour, squeezed for juice or dried out as bedding. |
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== Literature == |
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⚫ | * In the [[Humanx Commonwealth]] series, Home Trees of Midworld provide food, shelter, and an organic security-system. Pika-pina, from Tran-ky-ky, can be made into sailcloth, paper or rope, its nutrient-rich nodules are edible raw or cooked, and its leaves can be eaten plain, ground into flour, squeezed for juice or dried out as bedding. |
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* "Swist" from the children's story ''Weslandia'': |
* "Swist" from the children's story ''Weslandia'': |
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{{quote|Grows super-fast |
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Grows super-fast |
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The fruit is delicious, and the rinds can be dried into cups |
The fruit is delicious, and the rinds can be dried into cups |
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Excellent tubers |
Excellent tubers |
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Inner fibers can be spun into clothes |
Inner fibers can be spun into clothes |
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Oil from the seeds acts as suntan lotion and bug repellant |
Oil from the seeds acts as suntan lotion and bug repellant |
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The crop attracts a whole ecosystem of pleasing animals |
The crop attracts a whole ecosystem of pleasing animals}} |
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⚫ | * In the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', Esteban Borges's artificially designed and created "Butter Bugs" are meant to be this. They are large bugs that live in colonies with a Queen and reproduce quickly, yet their breeding is human-controlled so they can't overrun the environment. In their stomachs they secrete 'Bug Butter', which is tasteless, sort of the consistency of tofu, and can supply all your dietary needs: you can practically live of it alone. Their excrement is also excellent fertilizer, and they can be kept at low cost since they can eat just about anything that's organic, including bark, branches and grass. Their marketing didn't exactly take off at first, as people were turned off by their ugly appearance and thought it was pretty disgusting to eat something that was regurgitated by one, until Ekaterin redesigned them to be "Beautiful Butter Bugs". Now it seems they're going to be pretty profitable. |
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⚫ | * In the [[Vorkosigan Saga]], Esteban Borges's artificially designed and created "Butter Bugs" are meant to be this. They are large bugs that live in colonies with a Queen and reproduce quickly, yet their breeding is human-controlled so they can't overrun the environment. In their stomachs they secrete 'Bug Butter', which is tasteless, sort of the consistency of tofu, and can supply all your dietary needs: you can practically live of it alone. Their excrement is also excellent fertilizer, and they can be kept at low cost since they can eat just about anything that's organic, including bark, branches and grass. Their marketing didn't exactly take off at first, as people were turned off by their ugly appearance and thought it was pretty disgusting to eat something that was regurgitated by one, until Ekaterin redesigned them to be "Beautiful Butter Bugs". Now it seems they're going to be pretty profitable. |
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* In ''[[The Lorax]]'', the Once-ler uses the tufts from the Lorax's truffula trees to make all-purpose consumer products known as thneeds. Subverted in that the truffula trees aren't being cultivated, just harvested from the wild until there's none left. |
* In ''[[The Lorax]]'', the Once-ler uses the tufts from the Lorax's truffula trees to make all-purpose consumer products known as thneeds. Subverted in that the truffula trees aren't being cultivated, just harvested from the wild until there's none left. |
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{{quote|It's a shirt, it's a sock, it's a glove, it's a hat |
{{quote|It's a shirt, it's a sock, it's a glove, it's a hat |
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And it has other uses, far beyond that }} |
And it has other uses, far beyond that }} |
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== Live-Action |
== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
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* Radishes in ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''. For Fraggles it's their main food source. Doozers use it as building material (which is why Fraggles find it delicious, although they don't know about it). Gorgs, who grow it in the first place, use it for anti-vanishing cream, which keeps them from fading away to nothing. |
* Radishes in ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''. For Fraggles it's their main food source. Doozers use it as building material (which is why Fraggles find it delicious, although they don't know about it). Gorgs, who grow it in the first place, use it for anti-vanishing cream, which keeps them from fading away to nothing. |
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== Music == |
== [[Music]] == |
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* "The Wompom", a song by [[Flanders and Swann]], about the world's most miraculous, all-purpose plant. |
* "The Wompom", a song by [[Flanders and Swann]], about the world's most miraculous, all-purpose plant. |
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* In the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game, parts of the viridia plant can be used for everything from flour to fabric to lumber to oil to ''naturally-grown canoes''. Justified by [[A Wizard Did It]]. |
* In the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game, parts of the viridia plant can be used for everything from flour to fabric to lumber to oil to ''naturally-grown canoes''. Justified by [[A Wizard Did It]]. |
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== Video Games == |
== [[Video Games]] == |
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* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' |
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' has no universal plants, but a few crops are more versatile than "eat or brew". Quarry bush leaves can be cooked as is or ground into flour, while its seeds ("Rock nuts") can be pressed for cake (also cookable) and oil (which can be used in cooking or to make soap); Pig tail and Rope reed are not edible, but both can be brewed into alcohol or spun into thread for cloth and ropes. |
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** Animals can be shorn (again, thread gives both cloth and ropes), milked (which allows to make cheese) and butchered for edible parts (meat, fat, etc), leather (uses range from bags and wineskins to armor, and it's the only common material good for quivers and backpacks) and bones (can be made into crossbow bolts and some armor pieces) plus hooves and horns if appropriate. |
** Animals can be shorn (again, thread gives both cloth and ropes), milked (which allows to make cheese) and butchered for edible parts (meat, fat, etc), leather (uses range from bags and wineskins to armor, and it's the only common material good for quivers and backpacks) and bones (can be made into crossbow bolts and some armor pieces) plus hooves and horns if appropriate. |
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* Hemp can be used for food (the seeds), medicine (against aczema and inflammation), as rope, for fabric for clothing, sacks and sails, as building material, as jewelry, it can be made into paper and plastic, and it can be used for fuel, weed control and water purification. And yes, it has that other use too. |
* Hemp can be used for food (the seeds), medicine (against aczema and inflammation), as rope, for fabric for clothing, sacks and sails, as building material, as jewelry, it can be made into paper and plastic, and it can be used for fuel, weed control and water purification. And yes, it has that other use too. |
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** Then again, it's rare to encounter a culture that actually uses it for all these uses and has no other crops. In that light only corn can really count. |
** Then again, it's rare to encounter a culture that actually uses it for all these uses and has no other crops. In that light only corn can really count. |
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* After the work of [[w:George Washington Carver|George Washington Carver]], peanuts come close. |
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