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While the trope name is 'Flower from the ''Mountaintop,''' the plant doesn't necessarily have to be from the top of a mountain, just in a dangerous, inaccessible place.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* In [[Blood Plus|Blood+]], Saya wants a suitable present for her father on his birthday, and decides on a uniquely-colored flower which is hanging on the side of a cliff. Haji tells her it's too dangerous, but she's insistent on getting the flower, so Haji decides to retrieve it for her. Unfortunately, he slips, and is mortally wounded in the fall. In order to save his life, [[Our Vampires Are Different|Saya]] feeds him some of her blood, [[Emergency Transformation|turning him into a chiropteran chevalier in the process]].
* Occurs in .hack//Sign. Tsukasa is entrusted with a grunty which gets sick. To cure it, he must collect a rare herb from a very high level dungeon, even though he is very low level. {{spoiler|He is able to get it, but he doesn't return in time and the grunty dies anyway.}}
** Also occurs in [[.hack|.hack//Legend of the Twilight]], where Tsukasa's (and Elk's) near-identical counterpart asks Sugo-in-Kite's-avatar to help her get a [[Healing Potion|Pfenix Feather]] from a high-level [[Mix
* [[One Piece]]: Chopper gets a rare medicinal herb to save the doctor who raised him. The plant? A toxic species known as a Jolly Roger. The doctor knew it was poisonous from the beginning, but couldn't tell the poor kid that he risked his life for nothing.
* More than one of the Seven Colors Flower's sightseeings in [[Hana Noko Lunlun]] happen in mountains. {{spoiler|In one of these, Lunlun plummets to her death and has to be revived by the Flower Star Spirits.}}
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* In ''The Magic of Oz'', one of the [[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz books]], a character decides he's going to go get an incredibly rare flower as a gift for Princess Ozma, or something. It grows on an island in the middle of a river. Only it turns out that if you step on the island, your feet grow roots.
* In the ''[[Redwall]]'' book ''Salamandastron'', a character sets out to pick the Flowers of Icedor to cure a devastating plague at the abbey.
* In [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''Taran Wanderer'', the fourth book (and unplanned one) of [[Prydain Chronicles|Chronicles of Prydain]], [[The Hecate Sisters]] send Taran off to find a mirror that, if he looks into it, will reveal who he really is (something that Taran, who has no idea who his family is, desperately wants to know). Subverted in that {{spoiler|it turns out that the magic mirror is just [[
* Used literally in William Shatner's ''Star Trek: Captain's Blood''.
* Susan Cooper's fifth book in The Dark Is Rising series has the epynomous ''Silver on the Tree'', a bloom that happens rarely. Of course, the battle is waging around the tree, because the other side understands the importance as well.
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== Myth&Legend ==
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh (Literature)|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' has him searching for a magical flower; he finally does have it, then a [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|snake]] [[Diabolus Ex Machina|eats it]]. Also an inversion: the flower was the [[Consolation Prize]] for not getting true immortality, as it just makes you younger so you can live a bit longer. It also leads to [[Lamarck Was Right]] since it explains [[Just
* In Slavic and Baltic folklore, the mythical [[You Fail Biology Forever|"fern flower"]] blooms once a year on Midsummer's Eve. What it actually ''does'' depends on the culture.
* One fairy tale has a prince be fated to have attempts on his life made by a snake, an alligator, and a dog. His [[Genre Savvy]] wife saves him from all three. With the alligator, it tells him that unless he can fill a pit of sand with water and keep it filled, it will kill him. His wife recalls being told about a four-leaved flower on the top of a mountain in the middle of a desert which can do just that. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|She goes by herself and procures it for him]].
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