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
- Apple — Sweet, cultivated fruit.[7]
- Banana — Long yellow fruit, used for juices.[8]
- Moon peach — Round, sweet fruit.[9]
- Grass — Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, cultivated into fields for outdoor games.[10]
- Onion — Used for juices.[8]
- Plum — Used in fruit pies.[11]
- Rash cactus — A type of cactus that can cause rashes upon contact with skin.[12]
- Soybean — Used to make tofu.[13]
- White lotus — A white flower, famed for its beauty and the Pai Sho tile modeled after it.[1]
Water Tribe
Sea prunes are stewed in the Southern Water Tribe.
- Bamboo — Typical tall bamboo which only grows in the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[14]
- Grass — Typical green grass which only grows in the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[14]
- Greaseberry bramble — A bush that can cause injury when fallen into.[15]
- Pine tree — One of the few species of tree found in the Northern Water Tribe.
- Pink flowers — Unidentified blossoms which only grow in the warm center of the Spirit Oasis.[14]
- Sea prune — A prune that grows underwater and is similar in taste to the ocean kumquat.[16]
- Seaweed — Kind of algae used for lotions.[17]
Earth Kingdom
Berries, nuts, and legumes
Lychee nuts are reddish-brown.
- Acorn — A hard tree nut.[18]
- Bacui berry — A berry known to cure the poison of the white jade plant.[19]
- Lychee nut — A small, reddish brown nut notable for its taste and abundance.[20]
- Maka'ole berry — A berry that causes blindness, very similar in appearance to the bacui berry.[19]
- Peanut — A small legume that can be made into a sauce.[21]
- Dumpling weed — A legume that thrives in harsh, rocky conditions, such as the north of Kyoshi Island.[22]
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.[23]
- Jasmine — Flower used to make tea.[5]
- 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.[24][25]
- Panda lily — Rare black and white flower found only on the rims of volcanoes. Commonly proffered as an expression of love.[17]
- Plum blossom — Cultivated for its fruits and flowers.[26]
- Silver lily - A white flower that grows only in a specific area of the southern Earth Kingdom.[27]
- Sunflower — Bright yellow, cultivated flower.
- White dragon bush — A plant with red-white flowers, famed for the tea made with its leaves and flowers.[19]
- White jade bush — A poisonous plant with red-white petals that causes rashes if consumed; it can even be fatal if not treated.[19]
Fruits and vegetables
- Apple — Sweet, cultivated fruit.[7]
- Beet — Root vegetable with a distinctive red hue.[28]
- Cabbage — Cultivated leafy vegetable.[29]
- Chili pepper — Spicy, colorful fruits.
- Cucumber[30]
- Daikon radish[30]
- Eggplant[30]
- Lettuce — Cultivated, leafy vegetable.[29]
Mangoes can be made into a fresh beverage.
- Mango — Cultivated, sweet, orange-red fruit,[17] sometimes made into a beverage.
- Moon peach — Sweet, pale round fruit, favored by Momo.[31]
- Papaya — Waxy, orange fruit.[17]
- Pear[32]
- Pumpkin[33]
- Scallion[30]
- Soy — Made into sauce and tofu.
- Taro[30]
- Watermelon — Sweet, juicy melon.[34]
Herbs and spices
- Ginger root — Used to make tea.[26]
- Lavender — Fragrant herb used to make scented soap.[35]
- Starpoppy seed — A cross between a starflower seed and poppy seed that is sprinkled onto food.[36]
Trees
- Banyan-grove tree — A tree that encompasses and is the heart of the Foggy Swamp.[4]
- Oak[31]
- Pine — A tree whose wood can be turned into floorboards that may squeak when stepped on.[37]
- Sandalwood — Aromatic plant, used as medicine.[26]
Others
- Banana leaf — Used as medicine.[26]
- 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.[38]
- 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.[39][40]
- Moss — A flowerless green plant that grows in damp habitats, such as crags jutting above the ocean surface.[41]
- Oat — Cultivated grain used as feed for livestock, such as flying bison.[40]
- 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.[22]
- Purple berry — Sweet, succulent fruit used for dye.[42]
Flowers
- Camellia — A flower used as the family crest of the Saowon clan.[43]
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.[16]
- Peony — A flower used as the family crest of the Keohso clan.[43]
- Rose — Aromatic cultivated flower.[11]
- Silver wisteria — A white flower cultivated on flowering trees in the Royal Palace gardens.[43]
Fruits and vegetables
- Ash banana — Long, gray squash.[16]
- Chile pepper — Spicy, colorful fruits.[44]
- Fig — Sweet sticky fruit.[45]
- Lemon — Sour yellow fruit.[46]
- Mango — A sweet, cultivated orange-red fruit.[47]
- Melonyam — A very sensitive crop, remaining in the ground until the end of the Festival of Szeto.[48]
- Ocean kumquat — Small, round fruits, similar to sea prunes.[49]
- Tomato carrot — Harder, edible plants that can be grown in gardens.[50]
- Zankan cherry — A pink fruit cultivated on flowering trees in the Royal Palace gardens.[43]
Herbs and spices
- Tea plant — Plant with leaves and leaf buds that are used to produce tea.[3]
Trees
- 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.[28]
- Cedar — A tree whose wood shavings are mixed with dried fire lily petals to create an enjoyable fragrance.[28]
- Palm tree — A tree with palm fronds that grows along the beaches at Ember Island.[51][52]
- Willow tree — A tree cultivated at the turtle duck pond in the Royal Palace gardens.[43]
Others
- Algae — A type of cave vegetation consumed by cavehoppers.[53]
- Bamboo — Typical tall bamboo.[31]
- Cotton — A flowering plant whose seeds are surrounded by fibers that can be woven into clothing.[54][55]
- 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.[55]
- 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.[56][57]
Spirit World
- Carrot spirit — An intelligent carrot that enjoyed bathing in the aye-aye spirit's oasis in the Spirit Wilds.[58]
- Mangrove forest — A swampy forest composed of wet porous moss, shallow water, and leafless leathery trees with twisted, gnarled trunks high as hills.[59]
- Radish lotus spirit — An intelligent radish lotus that played Pai Sho against Iroh.[60]
Other
- 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.[58]
- Gripping grass — Grass that envelops those who stand on top of it for too long, sinking them into the ground.[58]