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[[File:PlantPeople.jpg|link=Swamp Thing|frame|The technical term is "[[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|Sexual Dimorphism]]". [[All Thethe Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary|In Troper]], this would be [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]].]]
 
 
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== Advertising ==
* The advertising of Green Giant frozen vegetables features the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqtkjEg5Tmk Jolly Green Giant, and his nephew, the Little Green Sprout].
* One of the cast members in [[Orangina (Advertising)|Orangina]] are actual female plant people (bathing suits even!), though they only appear in one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bi3erz2Ek8 commercial].
 
 
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* ''[[Trigun]]'' has {{spoiler|Vash and Knives}} plus a few other nameless ones who mostly {{spoiler|are used to generate power. The nameless ones are humanoid in shape, but apparently are unable to communicate with normal humans}}.
** The term "Plant" in this context is far more likely to be an allusion to the concept of a "Power Plant" than an actual, biological plant. When one considers what most plants are used for and their nigh-supernatural abilities, this makes far more sense.
* Cheza from ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]''
* The Druids from ''[[Origin: Spirits of the Past]]''.
* {{spoiler|Count D}} from ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]''. {{spoiler|He tends to sprout vines when he's bleeding.}}
* Mandrakes from ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]'' are tiny green elves with a rose-like flower and two leaves growing out of their heads. They sleep buried to the base of the flower in dirt. They also screech at you if you pick them.
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* [[Marvel Comics]]' the [[Man-Thing]], now a member of the ''[[Thunderbolts]]. ''
* [[DC Comics]]' the ''[[Swamp Thing]].''
* Following the success of the Swamp Thing, ''[[Black Orchid (Comic Book)|Black Orchid]]'' was [[Retcon|retconned]] to also be a Plant Person. Noticeably though, while the later two Orchids are more plant than human, they can't control plants or flowers and their powers are primarily [[Glamour]] and pheromone manipulation.
* Atom and [[Swamp Thing]] villain Jason [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Wood]]roe; The Floronic Man
* Swamp Thing and Man-Thing are both [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] of a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] comic monster called The Heap.
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== Film ==
* Tabanga (AKA Baranga) the Tree-Monster in the 1957 B-movie, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP6W0ZCQRg From Hell It Came]''.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]] II'' is a form of a plant and takes form of a Victoria's Secret model.
 
 
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* In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''Speaker for the Dead'', {{spoiler|the Pequeninos start their lives as mammals, then the males transform themselves into sentient trees upon death as part of their life cycle (females do this too, but much more rarely, and only to start new communities or to replace a dying Mother Tree). The transformation is actually required for their system of reproduction. In fact, it turns out every native life-form on their planet has an element of this: the snakes and the river reeds, the cows and the high grass, etc}}
* The ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' has [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zelosian Zelosians], human-shaped plant aliens who can live for a month on sunlight and water. [[Death Star]] has one named Celot Ratua Dil.
* [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]'s Mi-Go are described as intelligent fungus. Also, the Old Ones (the tentacled barrel-shaped dudes from Antarctica) are described as having both plant and animal traits.
* ''[[Goosebumps]]'' had one in the book ''Stay Out of the Basement'', of which it is the main plot point.
* Philip José Farmer's ''Dark is the Sun'' has Sloosh, one of a species of plant-centaurs.
* The stingbulbs from the ''[[Fablehaven (Literature)|Fablehaven]]'' series start out as little fruits, but if you prick your finger on one, it turns into an exact replica of you. It's not a perfect copy, though—a few memories are missing, it doesn't necessarily think and act like you (it obeys the orders it receives after transformation), and it only lives for a few days.
* In ''[[Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz]]'' they run into a race of plant people called the mangaboos.
* The kodama from ''[[Return to Neverend]]'' are a dryad-like race. [[The Dragon|Kell]] is a unique example, and is ''quite'' violent.
* What everyone becomes after they die in Pentexore in ''[[Dirge for Prester John (Literature)|Dirge for Prester John]]''. The bodies of the dead are planted and become trees.
 
 
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* Tybo the Giant Carrot Man on the ''[[Lost in Space]]'' episode "The Great Vegetable Rebellion". Technically a Plant Alien, but considering he's planning on turning the Robinsons into plants, ''and'' he's practically a [[Rubber Forehead Alien]]...
* ''[[Creepshow]]'' has [[Stephen King]] playing a bumpkin who touched a meteor turning into a plant creature, but it wasn't a pleasant thing.
* Zhaan in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' is plant-based and experiences rapture during solar flares. She can't actually talk to plants, though, and thinks of them the same way humans might a very stupid ape.
* Lyekka (and possibly Wist) from ''[[Lexx]]''.
* Violet from ''[[The Outer Limits (TV)|The Outer Limits]]'' revival episode ''Flower Child''.
* Ficus the "vegeton" first officer from ''[[Quark]]''
* The Papay from the ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' miniseries, which resemble bipedal, leafless aspen thickets.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has Jabe, from the Forest of Cheem, is a [[Fetish Fuel|surprisingly sexy tree-lady]].
* ''[[Goosebumps]]'': see Literature above.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' of course, has several species of plant people, including Treants and Dryads.
** Not to mention the Woodling template, [[Up to Eleven|which lets you add this trope to any existing species]], and the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Topiary Guardians]], which are [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|animated topiary sculptures.]] If D&D has examples of a trope, it has a LOT of them.
* In the Glorantha setting for ''[[Rune Quest]]'', elves are sentient humanoid plants.
* One of the mutations in ''[[Gamma World (Tabletop Game)|Gamma World]]'' was Photosynthetic Skin, which allowed the mutant possessing it to produce their own food and heal lost [[Hit Points]] at 4x normal rate if in sunlight. Another option is to be an out-and-out human-shaped plant.
* ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]'' adventure ''There's a Crisis at Crusader Citadel''. One of the Crusaders [[NPC|NPCs]] is [http://www.patric.net/docfiles/Crusaders-Evergreen_LL_v1.0.pdf Evergreen], who has the plant powers of poison and plant control.
* In ''[[Warhammer]]'', that part of the Wood Elf army which isn't [[Fragile Speedster|Fragile Speedsters]] is composed pretty much entirely of plant people, ranging from Dryads (human-sized, spikey, made of wood) to Treemen (like Dryads, only [[Our Giants Are Bigger|much bigger]]).
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* If you use too many pesticides in ''[[The Sims]]'' Seasons, you turn into a plant person and need to have a lot of water.
* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' and ''[[Fallout 3|3]]'' have Harold, an NPC ghoul with a tree he calls Bob growing out of his head.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Spore_carrier Spore Carriers], humans that have been taken over by parasitic Bacteria in an experiment to genetically engineer plant spores. The ''Old World Blues'' DLC reveals that they originated from the Big MT R&D Facility and that the [[Brain In Aa Jar|Think]] [[Mad Scientist|Tanks]] are responsible for them, amongst many other horrifying things in the game.
* Bracken in ''[[Dungeon Siege]]''.
* The Dendroids from ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III'', and the Treants from V
* The Deku and Koroks in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series. While they look like Hylian children, the Kokiri might actually be plant people as well, as they were given life by the Deku Tree and eventually become the Koroks.
* EVA in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'' speculates that The End's unusual amount of stamina might be due to photosynthesis. Later, upon [[Skippable Boss|one of his many possible deaths]], The End's skin actually does transform into bark.
* In the ''[[Thief]]'' series, Viktoria initially appears human but is actually a dryad of some sort, able to create long stabbing/entangling vines from her fingertips, and has bark-covered skin and glowing red eyes. She's one of the heads of the Pagans and all of them have a huge affinity for plants and wild things.
* Lilligant from ''[[Pokémon]]'', based off a Dryad. [[One-Gender Race|She's always female, too]].
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* The goddess Melandru from ''[[Guild Wars]]''.
** The Sylvari in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]''. [[Shown Their Work|To a scary degree, actually.]] [http://www.arena.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ArmorClothingConcepts.jpg See for yourself.]
* ''[[Resident Evil 2 (Video Game)]]'' has the Ivy monsters. They were the end product of using [[The Virus|the T-Virus]] to genetically splice together plant and animal DNA. They are humanoid, which suggests the animal in question was or included human DNA. [[Mighty Glacier|They are slow, but pack quite a punch and soak up punishment like Miracle-Gro]].
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has the Thorian, an extremely old and extremely intelligent plant organism living on Feros. It looks nothing like a human... more like a giant bulb of fleshy stuff with tentacle-like roots going off in every direction. It is also a villain, and uses spores to mind-control other creatures living around it. It can only speak through plant-based clones of individuals it has absorbed, which it can create within itself and then spit out to do its bidding.
* The Alraune monsters in the ''Disgaea'' series.
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', {{spoiler|Marcia Sutton}} is a dryad. Ysengrin is also almost a plant person: as a gift from Coyote, he has the ability to command all the plants of the forest, and he wears magic [[Power Armor]] made from trees, which might not seem like much of a fit for this trope [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=671 until you see what he looks like without it...]
* In ''[[Chirault]]'', pretty much all trees are sapient and dangerous to cross, but most of them are inactive.
* Dryads are a major race in ''[[Felarya]]''.
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== Web Original ==
* The short story [http://everything2.com/user/Apollyon/writeups/The+meadow%252C+dark+and+moist.?author=Apollyon here] combines this trope with [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]] and [[Body Horror]].
* The story ''[http://everything2.com/user/Pandeism+Fish/writeups/Wereshrub?author=Pandeism%20Fish Wereshrub]'' is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].
* In ''[[The Dragon Wars Saga]]'' the dryads (nymphs with a life affinity) are an example.
* The Element Lord of the Jungle in ''[[Bionicle]]''. The Bota Magnan Agori may also count.
* Among the [[Revenue Enhancing Devices|exotic pets]] in [[Uni Creatures (Website)|Uni CreaturesUniCreatures]] are a series of dryads, one for each season. One of the (free) seasonal pets is a flower sprite of some kind.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (Animationanimation)|Darkwing Duck]]'': Dr. Reginald Bushroot.
* The Wuts from ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' are an entire race of [[Plant Person|Plant People]].
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' where a hippie wants to become a tree. He is always shown standing in a plant pot and talks about getting surgeries that will turn him into a plant.
* Flora from ''[[Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors (Animation)|Jayce and Thethe Wheeled Warriors]]'' was born from a blossom created by the hero's father Audric.
* [http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/Lifeforms.html#Phylo Phylosians] from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'' are [[Plant Aliens]].
* Poison Ivy in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' created artificial plant people to assist her schemes in several episodes (not to mention the episode in which she developed a way to punish her enemies by turning them into [inanimate] trees). After the animated continuity was rebooted, she became a full-blown "plant person" herself, complete with green skin and the ability to breathe carbon dioxide. In fact, Batman once defeated her and her army of carnivorous plants by having all the carbon dioxide removed from Ivy's office, causing her and her "pets" to pass out.
** Then the ''[[Batman Adventures]]'' spin-off comic said that the green-skinned, carbon-dioxide-breathing Ivy was another artificial plant person, and that the real Ivy was fully human and off doing her own thing somewhere else.
* The Plant Man from the ''[[Flap Jack]]'' episode of the same name.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]''' Mr. Seaweed Monster Man
* ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'' has the Petalars, adorably [[Lilliputians|Lilliputian]] li'l plant people/[[Plant Aliens]] {{spoiler|who live about a day}}.
* The [[Green Thumb|Sadida]] class in the ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'' series and associated video game have green hair (and, in the males' case, green ''[[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|fur]]'') and brown skin, have literal cabbage patch kids, and turn into stumps when they die.
 
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