A vast range of flora grows in the world, varying greatly from place to place depending on climate and conditions.[3]
Habitats[]
There are several distinct habitats in the Avatar World, each suitable for different species and variations of plants.
Foggy Swamp[]
Due to its humid air, the Foggy Swamp is home to a large number of plants, which are all densely packed into the area together with the other organisms that live there.[4]
Poles[]
Due to the Northern and Southern Water Tribe's arctic climate and low temperatures, flora in these parts can only grow underwater, excluding the plants around the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[5]
Si Wong Desert[]
The Si Wong Desert holds the driest, hottest climate of the world. The desert's ecosystem primarily consists of cacti in terms of flora.[6]
List of flora[]
Air Nomads[]
Legumes and beans[]
Flowers[]
- Chrysanthemum — A flower sometimes used in Air Nomad dumplings.[10]
- Rhododendrons — Sister Disha's favorite spot to meditate in the Southern Air Temple was by a patch of these flowers.[11]
- White lotus — A white flower, famed for its beauty and the Pai Sho tile modeled after it.[1]
Fruits and vegetables[]
- Apple — Sweet, cultivated fruit.[12]
- Banana — Long yellow fruit, used for juices.[13]
- Cabbage — Vegetable sometimes used for dumplings.[10]
- Carrot — Vegetable sometimes used for dumplings.[10]
- Chayote — Vegetable sometimes used for dumplings.[10]
- Coconut[14]
- Cucumberquat — Used dried or in rice for Air Nomad dishes.[15]
- Lemon — Used in desserts.[16]
- Mango[15]
- Moon peach — Round, sweet fruit.[17]
- Onion — Used for juices.[13]
- Pear[18]
- Plum — Used in fruit pies.[19]
- Taro — A crop grown by the Air Nomads in the valleys of the Patola Mountain Range.[20][21]
- Tomato[20]
Herbs and spices[]
Trees[]
- Juniper — A coniferous tree.[22]
Others[]
- Barley — Used for dishes such as tsampa.[23]
- Grass — Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, cultivated into fields for outdoor games.[24]
- Rash cactus — A type of cactus that can cause rashes upon contact with skin.[25]
- Rice — Common grain.[15]
Water Tribe[]
Berries[]
- Blueberry — Fruit that grows wild in the arctic during summers.[26][22]
- Pepper berry — Used as a remedy for colds by combining with blubber to form a paste that is rubbed on the chest.[27]
Flowers[]
- Pink flowers — Unidentified blossoms which only grow in the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[28]
Fruits and vegetables[]
Sea prunes are stewed in the Southern Water Tribe.
- Sea prune — A prune that grows underwater and is similar in taste to the ocean kumquat.[29]
- Taro — Grown in the Spirit Oasis.[30]
Trees[]
- Ironspruce — A tree whose wood can be crafted into bows.[31]
- Pine tree — A type of tree found in the North and South Pole.[32]
Others[]
- Bamboo — Typical tall bamboo which only grows in the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[28]
- Grass — Typical green grass which only grows in the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[28]
- Greaseberry bramble — A bush that can cause injury when fallen into.[33]
- Seaweed — Kind of algae used for lotions.[34] There are several variations available.[35]
Earth Kingdom[]
Berries, nuts, legumes, and beans[]
Lychee nuts are reddish-brown.
- Acorn — A hard tree nut.[36]
- Bacui berry — A berry known to cure the poison of the white jade plant.[37]
- Fava bean — Used to make doubanjiang.[38]
- Goji berry[39]
- Lychee nut — A small, reddish brown nut notable for its taste and abundance.[40]
- Maka'ole berry — A berry that causes blindness, very similar in appearance to the bacui berry.[37]
- Peanut — A small legume that can be made into a sauce.[41]
- Dumpling weed — A legume that thrives in harsh, rocky conditions, such as the north of Kyoshi Island.[42]
Flowers[]
- Cherry blossom — A pink flower that blooms in the spring on trees in the northwestern Earth Kingdom immediately adjacent to the Su Oku River.[43]
- Chrysanthemum[44]
- Jasmine blossom — Flower used to make tea.[5][45]
- Moon flower — A white flower that grows best in partial shade.[2]
- Moon peach blossom — A flower that normally blooms in the spring. It was worn by the members of the Autumn Bloom Society in order to identify each other.[46][47]
- Panda lily — Rare black and white flower found only on the rims of volcanoes. Commonly proffered as an expression of love.[34]
- Peony[44]
- Plum blossom — Cultivated for its fruits and flowers.[48]
- Silver lily — A white flower that grows only in a specific area of the southern Earth Kingdom.[49]
- Sunflower — Bright yellow, cultivated flower.[50][51]
- White dragon bush — A plant with red-white flowers, famed for the tea made with its leaves and flowers.[37]
- White jade bush — A poisonous plant with red-white petals that causes rashes if consumed; it can even be fatal if not treated.[37]
Fruits and vegetables[]
- Apple — Sweet, cultivated fruit.[12]
- Banana[52]
- Beet — Root vegetable with a distinctive red hue.[53]
- Cabbage — Cultivated leafy vegetable.[54]
- Celery[55]
- Chili pepper — Spicy, colorful fruits.
- Cucumber[56]
- Daikon radish[56]
- Eggplant[56]
- Grape — Dried to make raisins.[57]
- Jujube[39]
- Lettuce — Cultivated, leafy vegetable.[54]
Mangoes can be made into a fresh beverage.
- Mango — Cultivated, sweet, orange-red fruit,[34] sometimes made into a beverage.[58]
- Moon peach — Sweet, pale round fruit, favored by Momo.[59]
- Papaya — Waxy, orange fruit.[34][60]
- Pear[61]
- Persimmon — An astringent tree fruit.[62]
- Plum — A sweet, purple fruit which drops in the fall.[4]
- Pumpkin[63]
- Scallion[56]
- Soy — Made into sauce and tofu.
- Taro[56]
- Watermelon — Sweet, juicy melon.[64]
Herbs and spices[]
- Cilantro[65]
- Cinnamon[66]
- Coriander[67]
- Ginger root — Used to make tea.[48]
- Ginseng — A root often used in herbal teas.[68]
- Lavender — Fragrant herb used to make scented soap.[69]
- Peppercorn — Many varieties are cultivated.[66]
- Starpoppy seed — A cross between a starflower seed and poppy seed that is sprinkled onto food.[70]
Trees[]
- Banyan-grove tree — A tree that encompasses and is the heart of the Foggy Swamp.[4]
- Itchleaf tree – Produces resin that can be refined into bloodlaquer, a product exclusive to Taku.[71]
- Moon peach tree — A tree on which moon peaches grow, found in the central courtyard at the Moon Peach Inn in the Middle Ring of Ba Sing Se.[72]
- Nipa – Mangrove palm found in the southern Earth Kingdom.[73]
- Oak[59]
- Persimmon tree — A tree on which persimmons grow.[62]
- Pine — A tree whose wood can be turned into floorboards that may squeak when stepped on.[74]
- Purple rosewood – Unfathomably old tree that grows in the Foggy Swamp. Avatar Yangchen was disgusted by zongdu Iwashi having furniture carved from this wood.[71]
- Sandalwood — Aromatic plant, used as medicine.[48]
Others[]
- Bamboo — Typical tall bamboo;[59] can be used to make baskets called "bamboo steamers" that hold fresh dumplings.[75]
- Banana leaf — Used as medicine.[48]
- Barrel cactus — A type of cactus.[6]
- Cactus — A spiky, juice-filled plant found in deserts; its juice causes hallucinations when consumed.[6]
- Cotton — A flowering plant whose seeds are surrounded by fibers that can be woven into clothing.[76]
- Grapevine — A plant on which grapes may grow.[77]
- Grass — Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, which grows wild or is cultivated on lawns and pasture as a fodder crop.[78][79]
- Moss — A flowerless green plant that grows in damp habitats, such as crags jutting above the ocean surface.[80]
- Oat — Cultivated grain used as feed for livestock, such as flying bison.[79]
- Rice — Cultivated white grain.[3]
- Seaweed — Kind of algae.[4]
Fire Nation[]
Berries, nuts, and legumes[]
- Dumpling weed — A legume that thrives in harsh, rocky conditions, such as the Boiling Rock.[42]
- Purple berry — Sweet, succulent fruit used for dye.[81]
- Tamarind — Used in various dishes.[82]
Flowers[]
- Camellia — A flower used as the family crest of the Saowon clan.[83]
The fire lily is a vibrant red color.
- Fire lily — A vibrantly red flower, famed for its beauty, only blooms for a few weeks each year.[29]
- Moon-blooming sampaguita – Jasmine variation that grows on Lambak Island. Its small white flowers only bloom at night during a full moon. In powdered form, this flower dulls senses, and the leaves can be made into tea.[84]
- Peony — A flower used as the family crest of the Keohso clan.[83]
- Rose — Aromatic cultivated flower.[19]
- Silver wisteria — A white flower cultivated on flowering trees in the Royal Palace gardens.[83]
- White chrysanthemum — A flower used as the sign of a master brush-maker.[85]
Fruits and vegetables[]
- Ash banana — Long, gray squash.[29]
- Banana — Peelable fruit.[86]
- Breadnut[87]
- Cherry — Sweet, round fruit.[88][89]
- Chile pepper — Spicy, colorful fruit.[90]
- Dragon paw fruit – Fruit with spiky red shell that grows in bunches. Lambak Island also has a variation with a blue shell rather than crimson.[91]
- Fig — Sweet, sticky fruit.[92]
- Jalapeño[93]
- Lemon — Sour, yellow fruit.[94]
- Mango — A sweet, cultivated orange-red fruit.[95] Wild hog monkeys' favorite food.[96]
- Melonyam — A very sensitive crop, remaining in the ground until the end of the Festival of Szeto.[97]
- Ocean kumquat — Small, round fruits, similar to sea prunes.[98]
- Scallion[99]
- Star apple — Round purple fruit with toxic skin and edible flesh. Found on Lambak Island.[100]
- Tomato carrot — Harder, edible plants that can be grown in gardens.[101]
- Zankan cherry — A pink fruit cultivated on flowering trees in the Royal Palace gardens.[83]
Herbs and spices[]
- Tea plant — Plant with leaves and leaf buds that are used to produce tea.[3]
Trees[]
- Balete tree – Tree with a corded trunk and low-hanging, sprawling branches; grows on Lambak Island.[96]
- Birch — A tree covered with bark that is shredded and mixed with cotton and special oils to test newborns in the Fire Nation for firebending capability.[53]
- Cedar — A tree whose wood shavings are mixed with dried fire lily petals to create an enjoyable fragrance.[53]
- Gingko tree – Ancient mountain trees found in the Capital.[102]
- Greywood — A tree that can grow up to two or three hundred feet tall, found on Lambak Island.[103]
- Nipa – Mangrove palm used to make huts.[84]
- Palm tree — A tree with palm fronds that grows along the beaches at Ember Island.[104][105]
- Pandan[106]
- Willow tree — A tree cultivated at the turtle duck pond in the Royal Palace gardens.[83]
Others[]
- Algae — A type of cave vegetation consumed by cavehoppers.[107]
- Bamboo — Typical tall bamboo; can be used to check the sharpness of an opponent's blade during a sword fight.[94][108]
- Bioluminescent algae — A type of marine vegetation that glows during the night.[109]
- Cotton — A flowering plant whose seeds are surrounded by fibers that can be woven into clothing.[110][111]
- Fire bamboo — A type of red bamboo found on Lambak Island.[112]
- Flax — A flowering plant used to procure flax oil for greasing certain cloths, such as ship sails designed to let as little air through them as possible.[111]
- Grass — Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, which grows wild or is cultivated on lawns and pasture as a fodder crop.[113][114]
- Moss — A flowerless green plant that grows in damp habitats, such as the rocky rim of the dormant volcano containing Royal Caldera City.[115]
- Rattan – Climbing palm used to make mats.[84][116]
- Seaweed — Kind of algae that grows in beds near some of the Fire Islands.[41][111]
Spirit World[]
- Carrot spirit — An intelligent carrot that enjoyed bathing in the aye-aye spirit's oasis in the Spirit Wilds.[117]
- Mangrove forest — A swampy forest composed of wet porous moss, shallow water, and leafless leathery trees with twisted, gnarled trunks high as hills.[118]
- Moss — A flowerless green plant that grows in damp habitats, such as a mangrove forest in the Spirit World.[118]
- Radish lotus spirit — An intelligent radish lotus that played Pai Sho against Iroh.[119]
Other[]
- Cloudberry – A teahouse in Bin-Er was called the Golden Cloudberry.[120]
- Daggerpine[71]
- Flytrap — A carnivorous plant that can grow big enough to consume a grown human. They will actively chase their prey if they are close enough.[117]
- Golden jasmine — A beautiful and aromatic golden jasmine flower, found only on Jasmine Island.[121]
- Gripping grass — Grass that envelops those who stand on top of it for too long, sinking them into the ground.[117]
- Mulberry – Flowering tree used to produce paper.[116]