Fantasy Trees

The Dark Tree Finding its mention in the supplements of the Dungeons and Dragons, the Dark Tree is a fascinating dark plant which will carefully devour its prey. The many amazing plant creatures in Dungeons and Dragons that unleash their evil on their victims make it more interesting. Though the Dark Tree looks pretty much like an innocent Cypress Tree on the outside, it is evil to the core. Characteristically, like the Cypress Tree, it has a really long life. The Dark Tree's bark hides a hideous, evil face which marks its personality as deeply negative. The Dark Tree is like a lioness patiently waiting to pounce on its prey. It exists in a warm, dense jungle and counts on intelligent creatures to wander in its close space.  Once the Dark Tree senses a prey, it will attack, show no mercy! Two of its branches function like its arms. These arms are spindly and wooded, strong and menacing. It will keep on attacking its prey until it falls dead. The Dead Tree will then take

Man-eating tree Man-eating tree, as their name suggests, are carnivorous plants popular among Cryptozoologists as cryptids or mythical tree big enough to kill and consume human or other large creatures. The largest known Carnivorous plants known to exist in the real world is probably the Nepenthes rajah, a Pitcher plant with almost 40 cm tall Pitcher and with volume up to 4 liters. Many popular fantasy works cited about the existence of Man-eating trees in their literature. Edmund Spencer in 1874 fabricated an article about the discovery of Man-eating trees in Madagascar. The article was published on 26 April 1874 in the New York World and was repeatedly published to gain popularity. The article was about a letter written by a German explorer Carl Liche (1881) in the form of a report of encountering a man-eating tree to whom the Mkodo tribe of Madagascar was sacrificing a woman. Other newspapers and magazines tried to catch the race by reprinting the article, however, after 1

The Ellcrys The Ellcrys is a beautiful tree with a crimson leaves and a silvery bark. The Ellcrys is cited in the two novels of The Shannara Trilogy, with a foremost appearance being into The Elfstones of Shannara, a sequel to the first book. The Ellcrys, being glorified for her beauty, played a pivotal role in trapping and expelling the demons, which walked on the four lands, into another world called the Forbidding, much like a Prison with a barrier in between. The creation of Ellcrys was an outcome of efforts by a group of young Elves known as The Chosen, preferred by the Ellcrys itself. The first appearance of Ellcrys is believed to be a crusade for the rebirth of Ellcrys before she died, led by a group of Protagonists. The Ellcrys has a lifespan of around centuries to millennium during which they exploit every bit of their good healthy in keeping the demons locked in the Forbidding. But over the time they lose their healthy state as they too go through the natural pr

Tree of Souls The Tree of Souls is a giant tree that forms the closest spiritual means for a humanoid species called Na’vi to connect to their deity namely Eywa. Na’vi inhabit Pandora, one of many moons of the gas giant called Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri A system, far away from the Earth but makes the closest star system to our own Sun. Pandora’s rich bio-diversity, including the Tree of Souls, which forms a centre around which the Na'vi life revolve, makes it much an Earth-like moon. But humans have much bigger reason to colonize Pandora; their intention is to mine a precious mineral called Unobtanium, a room temperature superconductor, housed in an enormous amount below the Tree of Souls and under other home trees. As with a matter of greed, the humans, in the process of mining the Unobtanium, threatens the life and habitat of Omaticaya and Tipani, Na’vi clan which lives on these massive trees called Hometrees. The Tree of Souls, as portrayed in the movie Avatar,

Whomping Willow Whomping Willow doesn’t like anybody to roam in its space if encountered, it makes it ferocious. The Whomping Willow tree is one of the most popular fantasy trees of Modern literature. It came into view in the second book of the Harry Potter series, TheHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as a large tree on the fields of Hogwarts. The book reveals an unwanted facet of Whomping Willow when Harry Potter and his friend Ron Weasley while arriving in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, got their car accidentally crashed on a Whomping Willow tree. The Whomping Willow then reverts back by attacking and doing a serious damage to the car. Both boys get nearly killed but somehow manage to escape safely from the attacks. Talking further, what you read above was just one side of the story. The Whomping Willow holds an unexpected secret which is revealed in the third book i.e. The Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in an incident where Ron Weasley g