Plant Monsters

in Basic Fantasy Field Guide Omnibus

• Bloodthorn - Rare carnivorous plants native to temperate forests, hills, and barrens
• Botanical - A plant creature that closely resembles humans in size and form
• Cactus Man - Resembles a Saguaro cactus with arms and legs
• Deep Spore - Knobby leathery globes 2-5 feet in diameter with large eye spots that float in underground realms
• Encephallos Titanum - A cadaver plant that blooms once every hundred years, producing a blood-red flower that shoots spores to create infected thralls
• Floran - Humanoids with stunted features and bodies comprised of plant mass
• Fungi, Octopus - A giant fungus that appears similar to wailing morels but unfurls a tentacled appendage to grasp victims
• Gas Spore - Strange, non-intelligent fungal creatures that resemble oculus
• Guard Fern - A huge, bushy plant typically cultivated to guard narrow features such as hallways or gaps in walls
• Jack O'Lantern - A strange sentient pumpkin with a lit candle inside it
• Mithridatium Bush - Shrub with tightly-closed pods that open to reveal exotic deep crimson flowers edged with black
• Mushroom Men - Intelligent fungal creatures found in subterranean and sylvan environments
• Phantom Fungus - Invisible fungal creature that appears as a brown mass with nodules when visible
• Shambler - An intelligent carnivorous plant that appears as a heap of rotting vegetation
• Sicklemore Tree - An enchanted tree with sickle-shaped, semi-animate branches that scythe at nearby creatures
• Tendriculos - Voracious plant-like creature that can rear up to 15 feet tall
• Treant, Apple - Large, roughly humanoid tree-man of the fruit-bearing variety that hurls fruit as projectiles
• Violet Fungi - Very large purple mushrooms that resemble wailing morels with flailing branches
• Violet Fungus - A purple to gray fungus that resembles a shrieker, attacks with poisonous tentacles
• Yellow Mold - A poisonous fungus that releases deadly spores when disturbed