Acorn Tree: Makes acorns. In Mundania, this function is performed by oak trees.

Ances-Tree: Its big bole branches into two, then two to four, into eight, and so on to infinitesimal branchlets. The bark corrugations resemble tiny words, names and dates.

Artis-Tree: All are different. No two are alike in color or construction, but all are masterpieces, most appealing to behold.

Ash Trees: Found in blue, white, or black, these untidy trees scatter ash on the forest floor.

Baobob Tree: Grows upside down with its foliage on the ground and its roots in the air. Inside the hollow of the tree, everything seems to be rightside up.

Bay Tree: A mournfully howling tree from which is produced bay rum.

Beerbarrel Trees: A variety of brews form naturally in these hollow-boled trees. Beerbarrel trees which look sickly yield Ail, extremely wide ones contain Stout, and ones with twisted, pinched limbs contain Bitter.

Blackjack Oaks: They bash intruders. Used as part of the defenses of Castle Roogna.

Box Elders: These trees steal the youth of others which blunder into their grove. They are hollow inside.

Breadfruit Trees: A staple of the Xanth diet. Fresh bread in Xanth is budded, not baked.

Buckeye: Rakish trees that wink at passersby. Centaurs make a potent liquor out of the nuts that has a real kick.

Bull Spruces: These have horns that can tear or gore the unwary.

Butternut Tree: The soft-shelled nuts contain the best fresh butter.

Cabbage Palm: A tree with normal-looking fingers, but the palm is solid cabbage.

Cedar-Chest: This tree produces antiseptic smelling boxes in which one can store anything safely away from bugs. Some cedars yield Hope Chests, which can contain insubstantial magic.

Cheesefruit: Tasty fruit found on cheesewood trees, out of which cheeseboxes are made.

Cherry Bombs: Originally ordinary chocolate-covered cherries adapted by King Roogna for the battle against the invading Fifth Wavers. They explode with great force when thrown.

Chest-Nut: Grows chests of nutsm which contain all manner of nuts: cocoa nuts, P and Q nuts, red, blue, and hazel nuts, sandy beach nuts, and soft butternuts. The chests also contain several inedible nuts and bolts.

Cocoa Trees: Produce cocoa-nuts that contain hot cocoa.

Cordwood: Comes from cord trees. The wood can be seperated into its component cords. If one wants to make an especially strong object, on would disassemble cord and re-form the matter into the parts needed before construction, therefore making use of pre-recorded material.

Cough Drop Tree: Small nuts that make one cough.

Coven-tree: Large individual leaves with black markings on them label cages with their inhabitants names, and give direction. On display are Gi-ants, ma-moths, enor-mouse, tremen-does, gigan-tics, stupen-does, and im-mens, brought here by Xanthippe. When they are freed, all the creatures charge around madly.

Crabapple: Snappish fruit with ugly little faces and pinching claws. When steamed, crabapples turn bright red, and are delicious. Crabapple jelly is a popular favorite, though it affects everyone's mood for the rest of the day.

Date Palm: This plant has fronds for every day of the year. Day lilies grow around it in little cups of earth, but only one blooms each day. In the center of the palm is the century plant, which has long, thick green leaves spread out in a globe. At the heart of the plant are straight stalks clothed by many round leaves that glitter as brightly as gold. When they are touched, they stop time, for that is what the gold coins are: thyme, one of the most subtle and powerful plants of all. In Xanth, it appears that thyme is money.

Date Tree: On this tree grow down-dates and up-dates, which are affected by air waves. The fruit looks like a little 8 connected to a little D, as is proper for a D8.

Dead-Wringer: A plant so closely related to the tangle tree, or nooseloop, that it is frequently mistaken for one, though it is less dangerous than either.

Direc-Trees: Yellow-leaved tree which will help with any inquiries for a quarter part of anything. On its leaves are pictures of the things it knows about.

Dogwood: A normally friendly tree with teethlike inner branches, though its bark is worse than its bite. Its many leaves resemble the faces of dogs, and its roots are like doglegs. Its fruits are hot dogs.

Flying Fruits: These fruits are tasty and normal. Their leaves act like wings. When they leave the tree, they find nests that resemble large salad bowls.

Geome-tree: A three dimensional plane tree with precisely shaped leaves.

Glass Trees: The transparent, brittle leaves of this tree and its inner bark provide windows for Castle Roogna. It is wise to handle it with care, for each sharp fragment may cause one pane.

Gluebark: Anything which penetrates the bark of this sticky tree is held fast and then engulfed, as the tree slowly grows around it and absorbs it.

Hoarse Chestnut: A tree which makes heavy breathing sounds when the wind passes.

Hominy Tree: Produces fresh grits.

Hornbeam: Honks and shines brightly.

Horse-chestnut: This tree whinnies to attract attention, then tells boring old stories, dropping one chestnut after another as long as it has an audience. None of a chestnuts stories are ever true. The nuts themselves resemble a centaur's droppings, another expression for blatent untruth in Xanth.

Indus-tree: A busy plant with a lot going on in the branches.

Infant-tree: Tough babies grow on this tree that wear diapers and helmets, also a little sword or spear. If anyone ever disagrees with them, they say, "Tough shift!" because in the military, some shifts are harder than others.

Ironwood Tree: Used for pressing clothes, also a source of metal; very tough.

Monkey Puzzle Tree: Only someone watching it grow can solve the puzzle. Makes a good refuge when staying in a dangerous place.

Multifruit Tree: Useful plant on which several different fruits grow at once. Magically adapted where there was too little room for all the different fruit trees to grow.

Mys-tree: Its defense is that under its influence, an intruder has trouble figuring things out.

Nonenti-tree: An unimportant tree, hardly worth this listing.

Oilbarrel Trees: Citizens of Xanth get their fuel from these trees.

Pagean-tree: Very ornate tree. Has marching bands marching through its branches: strips of cloth, brass or rubber with little legs that step out in cadence.

Pairs: Fruit of a greenish yellow that can only be plucked from their branch in twos.

Papershell Pecans: The finest paper can be drawn from the shells of these nuts.

Peace-pines: These are more dangerous than they look. If you lie down underneath one, it will lull you to sleep it it can, and keep you there forever.

Pepper Tree: The spicy bark makes one sneeze.

Pie Tree: One of the staples of food plants in Xanth. Pie trees can bear any kind of pie, usually several types on the same plant: delicious ones like pizza, pecan, shoo-fly, mince, shepard's, cheese, chocolate cream, as well as offensive varieties like crabapple, pineapple, pe-can, and so on.

Pine Tree: This melancholy conifer makes one too unhappy to live. Sometimes to recover from its effects, one needs to seek out a psychia-tree.

Pineapples: This fruit grows on apple pine trees in Xanth, unlike the Mundane pineapples which grow on the ground. The ripe, golden-fleshed fruits, when dropped, explode in smoke and flame with a force that sends shrapnel-seeds hurtling in all directions.

Plain Tree: A jet black tree that enjoys flying, and is willing to carry passengers in its branches. They don't care for mocking-birds, who imitate their pilot fish so many of them have no mockocking sections.
Plumbs: Fruit that grows straight up and down on stringlike twigs on trees; they bob on their branches.

Pogo Trees: Incredibly springy trees that compress vertically and rebound straight up. Can be used as a form of transportation if a crosspiece is attached for the feet to rest on. Pogo trees are found in swamps.

Pome Trees: Pome trees have granite fruit, hard as a stone, which can be used for building. It takes excellent teeth to bite into a pome-granite.

Psychia-Tree: This plant soothes and comforts any troubled person who lies down in is shade.

Punchfruit Trees: These give bowl-shaped fruits that contain thirst-quenching fruit punch. If allowed to get too ripe, the liquid packs a very solid punch indeed.

Reverse Wood: Reverses any magic performed within range of its power. It affects only exterior magic, not inherent magic. In its more primitive state, it also reversed emotions. The bits of it that turn up in Mundania are called "lighter knot" because they burn with magic heat, melting stoves.

Rock Maple: A tough tree whose fruit is large round stones. Rock maples have a nasty sense of humor, and like to drop their stones on creatures which pass under their branches.

Roses: In a special courtyard by themselves at Castle Roogna, five bushes of Mundane-seeming roses grow. They are white for indifference, yellow for friendship, pink for romance, red for love, and black for death. The Test of the Roses is to determine what relationship truly lies between two people. They are enchanted so a person can only pick the appropriate color. Any other will stab his hand with long, sharp thorns. The person taking the test must climb a rope ladder to a tile where the rosebushes can examine him to make sure the emotion the roses reveal is directed at him, not someone else. The roses cannot be fooled.

Rubber Tree: A very flexible tree whose sap is used to make musical rubber bands.

Seeing-Eye Dogwood Tree: This plant looks like a mass of eyeballs on stalks that follow any movement.

Sen-Trees: These guard parts of the forest where intruders are not welcome.

Shade Tree: This tree yields no shadow because it has no substance. A shade tree is the ghost of a real tree which died by violence.

Shoe Tree: The plant from which most citizens of Xanth get their shoes. All kinds of sturdy footwear grow on its branches. The sap from fresh high-heeled pairs can be used as emergency heeling potion when nothing else is available.

Silver Oak:A tree formed of silver.

Slash Pine: A close relative of the needle pine which brandishes sharp blades instead of small spines.

Soda Tree: Special hollow tree which when punctured sprouts forth soda. Lime soda is one of the great favorites, but the tree comes in many different flavors.

Sophis-Tree: An animal that looks like a solid tree, but turns out to be an animal masquerading by standing on its thick tail and spreading its limbs out. It covers itself with bits of green to emulate leaves and branches.

Spikespire Tree: A narrow growth whose branches all point toward the sky in a sharp, tightly wedged spike.

Stork-Leg Tree: Spindly bole with thick, plumy foliage at the top.

Symme-Tree: Is of perfect bilateral design, each vertical half the mirror image of the other.

Torment Pine: Just touching this tree hurts.

Tree House: A magically ] enhanced hybrid of a boxwood, wall-nut, and lodgepole pine which grows into a comfortable domicile mounted high atop the trunk.

Trouser-Tree: On this tree grow nice brown jeans and other pantaloons.

Two-Lips Tree: Its flowers give big smacking kisses on the cheek to passersby.

Umbrella Trees: These come in two types, dry-loving umbrella trees, and the wet-loving parasol trees. The broad spreading canopy of the umbrella opens out when it rains because it likes dry soil over its roots. Parasol trees fold up in rain and spread out in sunshine, because they prefer their roots cool. They are not natural companion plants. Budding seedlings of either are called bumber shoots. Anyone can shelter under these plants; they are beneficent magic. An extract of sap from the parasol plant is a sun-shade elixr called parasol balm, or pa ba for short.

Waffle Tree: A plant that only grows in the Roogna Royal Orchard.

Water Chestnut Tree: If you pick and puncture the chestnuts, you can drink their store of fresh water.

Widowmaker: Tree with reddish sap that drops heavy deadwood limbs on those who walk below.

Winekeg Tree: Depending on the variety, these can contain any color of wine. The saplings yield only sour, immature wine, while the fullgrown trees give robust, mature vintages.

You-Call-Yptus Tree: Calls out warnings can can move its branches to ward off danger.

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