History Main / ArtisticLicenseBotany

* In ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', the Tudor rose is presented as [[LiteralMetaphor a real red and white flower]] found in the gardens of the aristocracy. Never mind the fact that the Tudor Rose was just a symbolic metaphor made to represent the merging of the houses of York (whose crest was a white rose) and Lancaster (whose crest was a red rose), no matter which way you crossbreed roses, no real crossbred rose would have whole-colored petals as demonstrated in the movie.

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', trees take three days to grow, and another three for the fruit to reappear once shaken off. Trees are also unable to produce fruit at all in the Winter. Although given how important fruit can be throughout the series, this is an AcceptableBreakFromReality.

* ''Film/{{Annihilation}}'': When the team discovers a field of plants that have grown in the shape of people, Josie the botanist theorizes this is because their hox genes, which dictate where parts of the body grow, were replaced with those of humans. However, [[https://www.inverse.com/article/41706-annihilation-plant-people-hox-genes plants do not have any hox genes]] and it's uncertain what would happen if they even received any.

* During the song "What Else Can I Do?" in ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', Isabela creates a river of sundew and points out that they are carnivorous as a few of the plants "snap" their petals at Mirabel. While the plant does need to capture and eat primarily insects in order to survive, it does so passively, with its petals acting like fly paper. Once an insect is stuck, the petals produce enzymes that digest it.

* GlowingPlant: Plants having bioluminescence for no apparent reason.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has Flowey's primary method of locomotion: he dives into the ground and then reappears in another spot, [[spoiler:as shown during the moments he briefly submerges just as the player goes back to a previous screen]]. Flowey's capable of doing this during ''any'' of the stages of the world, including a perpetually covered snowland, and a melting hot volcano area. No flower can adapt so well to so many different environments without dying instantly.

* In ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', the Tudor rose is presented as [[LiteralMetaphor a real red and white flower]] found in the gardens of the aristocracy. Nevermind the fact that the Tudor Rose was just a metaphor made to represent the merging of the houses of York (whose crest was a white rose) and Lancaster (whose crest was a red rose), no matter which way you crossbreed roses, no real crossbred rose would have whole-colored petals as demonstrated in the movie.

* In ''VideoGame/LittleRedHood'', you can harvest cherries (a fruit that comes from Prunus trees) from palm trees.
-->'''Webvideo/AngryVideoGameNerd:''' The only thing the kick can be used for is kicking palm trees to make cherries appear. But please God, tell me one thing: ''Why are there '''cherries''' coming out of a fucking '''palm tree'''?!'''

* In ''Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass'', Ivy claims that plants are better than people because they only take what they need. There are many examples of invasive and territorial plants, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy including ones that actively suppress other plants from growing through chemicals]], such as sunflowers, broccoli, and walnut trees.

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', trees take three days to grow, and another three for the fruit to reappear once shaken off. Trees are also unable to produce fruit at all in the Winter. Although given how important fruit can be throughout the series, this is an AcceptableBreakFromReality.

* Trees in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' take three days to grow, and another three for the fruit to reappear once shaken off. Although given how important fruit can be throughout the series, this is an AcceptableBreakFromReality. Moreover, trees in real life are also unable to produce fruit at all in the Winter.

* In Season 5 of ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'', John Dutton as governor fires his environmental advisor for claiming solar panel installations won't destroy nearby sage grass, since installing the solar panels will require removing some of the sage grass. The problem: as a rancher, John should know this isn't a problem. Sage grass is almost completely useless since cattle cannot eat it, and it also affects the growth of plants that ''are'' useful. For this reason, sage grass is only used for esthetic purposes on ranches, and only if the climate has a lot of droughts (which Montana does not) where other plants would not flourish. So Stanley was essentially [[BadBoss fired for advising something that was not only environmentally friendly but also pragmatic for ranching]].

* In ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', the Tudor rose is presented as [[LiteralMetaphor a real red and white flower]] found in the gardens of the aristocracy. Nevermind the fact that the Tudor Rose was just a metaphor made to represent the merging of the York (whose crest was a white rose) and Lancaster (whose crest was a red rose) Dynasties, no matter which way you crossbreed roses, no real crossbred rose would have whole-colored petals as demonstrated in the movie.

* In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' "Coffee Plant" sketch, Grover prepares Mr. Johnson a cup of coffee from scratch by picking coffee cherries from a bush and placing them into a coffee maker. Before the fruit can be made into a beverage, the seeds (aka. coffee beans) must be separated from the fruit, then left in the sun to dry for a few days, then the parchment around the seeds - which forms during the drying phase - must be removed, then the seeds must be roasted, cooled and finally ground up in order to be turned into a cup of joe. If Grover did do all of these things, it would have taken at least a week for Johnson's coffee to be made.

* Trees in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' take three days to grow, and another three for the fruit to reappear once shaken off. Although given how important fruit can be throughout the series, this is an AcceptableBreakFromReality
** Moreover, trees in real life are also unable to produce fruit at all in the Winter.

* April claims that the plant she gives the turtles at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S02E03ItCameFromBeneathTheSewers It Came From Beneath The Sewers]]" is a venus flytrap. Thing is, it looks nothing like a Venus flytrap. It looks more like a cross between an unbloomed rose and a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Piranha Plant]]. Also, Venus flytraps don't exactly actively bite whatever's in front of then (like it does with Michelangelo). In reality, they passively waiting for a bug to crawl into its open leaves which clamp shut once three trigger-hairs have been touched in a short enough time. And they're still leaves that only close with enough force to trap a fly or other insect- they absolutely can't hold onto an unwilling animal the size of a human.

Plants make up one of the Five Kingdoms of biology (the others being animals, fungi, protists and prokaryotes) and are a fundamental aspect of Earth's biosphere. Doesn't stop [[HumansAreMorons stupid humans]] from portraying them inaccurately in fiction. This can range from anatomical design, certain behaviors, their application when it comes to medicine and toxins and other ways they interact with the biosphere.

* In ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', the Tudor rose is presented as [[LiteralMetaphor a real red and white flower]] found in the gardens of the aristocracy. Nevermind the fact that the Tudor Rose was just a metaphor made to represent the merging of the York (who's crest was a white rose) and Lancaster (who's crest was a red rose) Dynasties, no matter which way you crossbreed roses, no real crossbred rose would have whole-colored petals as demonstrated in the movie.

* In Season 5 of ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'', John Dutton as governor fires his environmental advisor for claiming solar panel installations won't destroy nearby sage grass, since installing the solar panels will require removing some of the sage grass. The problem: as a rancher, John should know this isn't a problem. Sage grass is almost completely useless since cattle cannot eat it, and it also affects the growth of plants that ''are'' useful. For this reason, sage grass is only used for esthetic purposes on ranches, and only if the climate has a lot of droughts (which Montana does not) where other plants would not flourish. So Stanley was essentially [[BadBoss fired for advising something that was not only environmentally friendly, but also pragmatic for ranching]].

** There are numerous plant-like monsters that defy normal biology. For instance, morbols are a type of mobile, carnivorous plant with dozens of eyes and a putrid digestive system that allows them to debilitate foes with a WeaponizedStench. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that they were designed this way by the ancients of the unsundered world who possessed ThePowerOfCreation.]]
* The Utaru from ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'' are a [[CallToAgriculture farming culture]] who are given pouches of flower seeds at birth that they carry with them at all times. When the Utaru dies, that pouch is procured and brought to their tribe's orchard as a funerary right where the seeds grow into flowers. Under regular conditions, seeds can last as long as two years before they could be considered dead, ten years if under a controlled environment (which is unlikely given they're a primitive tribe that don't even practice smithing). Unless the Utaru swap out their seeds on a regular basis, their flower-beds should be deader than the people they belonged to.

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' has the boss fight against Chaos 4, one of Chaos' many forms, which Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles get to fight after Mystic Ruins. The gist of the fight is that the player has to hop between lily pads over the pond in order to avoid attacks from Chaos 4. However, lily pads are essentially just the leaves of the water lily, and are incapable of carrying much weight before collapsing. Unless Sonic and co. are as light as a feather, the lily pads should've gone under as soon as they set foot in them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has Flowey's primary method of locomotion: he dives into the ground, and then reappears in another spot, [[spoiler:as shown during the moments he briefly submerges just as the player goes back to a previous screen]]. Flowey's capable of doing this during ''any'' of the stages of the world, including a perpetually covered snowland, and a melting hot volcano-area. No flower can adapt so well to so many different environments without dying instantly.
* Trees in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' take three days to grow, and another three for the fruit to reappear once shaken off. Although, given how important fruit can be throughout the series, this is an AcceptableBreakFromReality

* April claims that the plant she gives the turtles at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S02E03ItCameFromBeneathTheSewers It Came From Beneath The Sewers]]" is a venus flytrap. Thing is, it looks nothing like a venus flytrap. It looks more like a cross between an unbloomed rose and a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Piranha Plant]]. Also, venus flytraps don't exactly actively bite whatever's in front of then (like it does with Michelangelo). In reality, they passively waiting for a bug to crawl into its open leaves which clamp shut once three trigger-hairs have been touched in a short enough time. And they're still leaves that only close with enough force to trap a fly or other insect- they absolutely can't hold onto an unwilling animal the size of a human.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "[[Recap/WanderOverYonderS2E21TheRobomechabotatronTheFlower The Flower]]", Wander and Sylvia take what seems to be the last flower on a planet with them to try to find a new home for it, safe from [[spoiler:Lord Dominator's quest to destroy the galaxy]]. Not only should removing the flower from its original place be enough to kill it, as flowers derive their nutrients from the ground and the flower spends most of the episode in a small patch of dirt, but most plant life is typically developed to survive in the environment they grew in specifically, and tend to do terrible in adapting to a new one.

* April claims that the plant she gives the turtles at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S02E03ItCameFromBeneathTheSewers It Came From Beneath The Sewers]]" is a venus flytrap. Thing is, it looks nothing like a venus flytrap. It looks more like a cross between an unbloomed rose and a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Piranha Plant]]. Also, venus flytraps aren't exactly the kind of plants that actively bite whatever's in-front of it (like it does with Michelangelo), often passively waiting for a bug to crawl into its open maw before clamping shut.