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Sometimes, an organism will have both characteristics of a plant (for example, ability to photosynthesize, has leaves, flowers and other plant parts) and characteristics of an animal (The ability to move around at will and it resembles a familiar creature). Scientists don't know how to classify it. We like to call it a Planimal. (Please note that mushrooms are ''fungi'', not plants - mushroom-animal hybrids don't belong here.)
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'', Audrey II is a plant, but has vocal chords and apparently, a full digestive system in its stalk. Kind of [[Justified Trope|justified]] seeing as how it's from space.
* Biollante from ''[[
* ''[[Gremlins 2]]'': After drinking a potion from the science lab, a Gremlin turns into a Gremlin/Vegetable hybrid.
* ''[[Troll 2]]'', (which had nothing to do with the original ''Troll''), features goblins (not Trolls) which turn people into edible plantmen because they are vegetarians.
* Apes and wolves made out of plants played an important role in ''[[Lady in
* In '[[Batman and Robin (
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Tremors]] the Series'' is the Trope Namer. The Planimal was a plant/root/thing, but also has a circulation system. It was a mixture of DNA from; the Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap and some sort of lizard.
* The creatures of Darwin IV, from ''Alien Planet''.
* A few pop up in ''[[
== Mythology and Folklore ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'': Piranha Plants, Dino Piranha, etc.
* ''[[Pikmin]]''
* Bulbasaur's family from ''[[Pokémon]]'' is both animal and plant simultaneously. As are a number of other Grass types that resemble animals such as the other Grass starters, Pansage, Leafeon, Deerling, Sawsbuck pictured above, and others.
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* ''[[Super Scribblenauts]]'' allows you to add "wooden" to anything.
* [[Man-Eating Plant|Spore plants]] in ''[[Fallout]]'', one of which became sentient.
* The Kikwis of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
** The Koroks from ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' has Baromett plants, which grow sheep. Probably inspired by the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary mentioned under 'Mythology'.
* Most of the martian wildlife in the ''[[Ultima]]'' spinoff ''[[Martian Dreams]]'' are ambulatory, sapient plants, while the animal kingdom consist solely of subterranean worms. Even the civilised martians were some variation of gourd. Humorously, they refer to the visiting humans as "worms", not as an insult, simply because it's the closest thing they can recognise us as.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Spliced]]'' has the Swineapple; it's part pig, part pineapple.
* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' has Dr. Bushroot, who turned himself into a half-plant, half-duck in a failed experiment.
* One episode of ''[[Krypto the Superdog (
* In the episode [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E11 Family Appreciation Day|"Family Appreciation Day"]] of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Disney Channel|Disney Junior's]] ''Octonauts'' brings us "Vegimals," a group of semi-anthropomorphic vegetables, with a turnip called "Tunip" as their leader. They communicate using cheeping and trilling noises and can whip up a mean "fish biscuit" (not made of actual fish, but tastes fishy.)
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