Trees of extraordinary material — Mythoi

Motif

Trees of extraordinary material.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary trees, plants, fruit, etc. · view the constellation · filed as F811.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary tree.

10 finer motifs beneath it

Golden tree Silver tree Copper tree Tree of fire. (Cf. F785.3. and other references there given) Tree of camphor Glass (crystal) tree in otherworld Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits Diamond tree Iron tree Tree of cakes

Filed beside it

Tree with extraordinary leaves Tree of extraordinary color Extraordinary location of tree Food-producing trees Tree with musical branches Tree with extraordinary fruit Tree with fruits like human heads Trees with green birds hanging by claws Tree in which people live in nests Trees disappear at sunset Trees grow and "ungrow" each day. (Cf. F817.1.) Tree blooms and grows ripe fruit nightly. (Cf. F815.1, F971.7.) Giant tree: nuts fall scores of miles away, etc Upside-down tree Tree bears fruit, flower, and leaf simultaneously. All drop at once Tree with extraordinary buds

Carried in tale types

One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes · ATU 511 12 recorded variants

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