Food-producing trees — Mythoi

Motif

Food-producing trees.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary trees, plants, fruit, etc. · view the constellation · filed as F811.5

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 9

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary tree.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Food-dropping trees Wood which distills wine Fish-producing tree

Filed beside it

Trees of extraordinary material Tree with extraordinary leaves Tree of extraordinary color Extraordinary location of tree 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