Tree

Tree

(Creature)

Common

Plant

Type

Plant

Level

Varies

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Images of trees

See also: Wood

Trees are common plants that typically have thick wooden trunks, branches, and leaves. Most are simple immobile plants harvested for their materials, such as wood, bark, and sap, but some are more complex creatures capable of movement, malice, or even sentience.

Appearance

A wide variety of tree species exist, with most consisting of a trunk rooted into the ground and many secondary branches above the ground. The woody roots and trunk draw water and nutrients from the ground, often in the form of sap, and leaves grow from the branches to capture sunlight. The trunk is protected by a layer of bark, the appearance of which varies between species.

Ecology

Trees can live for many years and reproduce through seeds, the nature of which varies between species and can include cones of pollen or seeds, fruit that contains seeds, flowers, and spores. A few rare tree species are carnivorous in nature, such as hangman trees and quickwoods.

Trees are susceptible to diseases, and magically blighted trees can sometimes become violent heartrot trees.

Similar creatures

Vinroot, an arboreal regent.

Arboreals are tree-like sentient beings that resemble humanoids.

Dryads are humanoid fey with skin that resembles the bark of a specific tree with which the dryad is bonded.

Leaf and pine leshies are leshies made from and resembling trees.

Sards are Tane transformed from ancient trees by the Eldest.

On Golarion

See also: Category:Trees

The flag of Nirmathas bears a tree.

Trees on Golarion provide several resources and are home to many creatures. For example, trees are harvested for wood for crafting and building, and their seeds can be processed for oils and fibers.

Many types of trees grow across Golarion, including:

• Birch trees common around Immenwood
• Blackwood trees of the Verduran Forest
• Bruorsivi trees of the Finadar Forest
• Date trees of Katapesh
• Fir trees of Andoran commonly harvested for lumber
• Carnivorous hangman trees
• Heartwood trees of Holomog
• Kapok trees that commonly grow near Usaro, Kibwe, and Jaha
• Mahogany trees commonly harvested from Darkmoon Wood
• Mango trees, such as those in the Mwangi Jungle
• Softwood paueliel trees of several parts of Avistan
• Pine trees, such as those of the Shudderwood
• Carnivorous quickwoods of the Furrows and the Verduran Forest
• Spruce trees, such as those of the islands around the Ironbound Archipelago
• Evergreen sugi trees in Tian Xia
• Thileu trees of Varisia, whose bark is a sought-after spice
• Clonal titan aspens of the Whisperwood

Magical trees

Types of trees infused with or related to magic include:

• Dolok trees, grown from the plumage of the Sarkorian god Dolok Darkfur
• Duskwood trees, lightweight hardwood trees associated with alchemy and conjuration magic
• Heartrot trees, blighted by disease and magic
• Magical trees whose seeds give birth to gathlains
• Winteryew trees of Irrisen, magically capable of growing and producing food through the land's eternal winter

Like other plants, trees can be magically awakened.

Specific trees

The Witchbole, mobile tree fortress of Treerazer.

The Forest Elder in Darkmoon Wood is considered to be the oldest duskwood tree in Andoran and potentially across Avistan. The Grand Holt of Absalom is a fig tree believed to be the oldest and largest tree on the Isle of Kortos.

Iemos is an ancient date tree in the foothills of the Brazen Peaks in Katapesh that appears to be influenced by the fallen hero Jonnaphar Ahallt.

Struggle is a hangman tree who hunts an old game trail in the Verduran Forest of Taldor.

Svarýr, also known as the Tree of Answers, is the 300-foot-tall Irriseni home to the norns known as the Harrowing Three.

The Tree of Souls in Kasai is a cherry tree with healing sap and is considered a sacred site of Tsukiyo.

The Tree of the Thousand Eyes is an ancient and massive tree in the Jolizpan Forest of Xopatl believed to have grown from the heart of a chicome coatl killed by the falling Starstone.

The Witchbole is a giant mobile tree that serves as Treerazer's fortress in Kyonin.

In the Great Beyond

Even deities enjoy trees.

Types of trees that grow in the Great Beyond include:

• Bonewrought willows, willow trees made of bones that grow in the Boneyard

Specific trees

The Bleeding Tree of the First World is believed to be where the original jubjub bird sleeps. The Silkstring Spire stands atop the tallest tree in the Silkwood of the First World.

The Penitent Cross of the Promised Land, in the Avernus layer of Hell, is the constantly bleeding willow tree of the archdevil Barbatos.

References

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External link

• Tree (real-world plant classification) on Wikipedia