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Misplaced Vegetation
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Lots of writers put animals where they don't belong. But to most people who aren't botanists, most plants look pretty similar. So you're safe sticking any old plant anywhere... right? Uh, well, wrong. Sometimes writers, artists, or programmers will stick a very specific plant into a scene, and it'll be completely misplaced. There is some overlay here with Television Geography in live action. This can be easily justified since many travelers have introduced plants from elsewhere if the new area's climate can accommodate them. For example, relatively few palm trees grow native in the US, and cacti grow only in the Americas unless taken abroad. Also, if a work of fiction is set somewhere that's like somewhere in the ancient or medieval world but isn't specifically there, they have an out for including things like potatoes or any other real-life plant: it's not set in the real world. Plant misplacement is especially present in works taking place in rainforests since it's hard to search for the tree species growing in these locations even with the help of the Internet. Not only there are a lot of different tree species unknown to the public, but different rainforests have different trees. This can come up frequently in Fantasy works set in pseudo-Medieval Europe: it's actually anachronistic for them to have New World crops like tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, maize-corn, etc. Different Fantasy series handle this different ways, with some just embracing the anachronism. Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Botany. Super-Trope to All Deserts Have Cacti. May occasionally be the result of Hollywood Provincialism, though filmmakers are careful not to show palm trees growing in places too temperate for them. Viewers aren't that moronic. |
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One episode of Disney's Aladdin: The Series had Africans growing corn in the Middle Ages. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): The under-ocean cities Venturia and Aurania have ferns and flowers growing in them. | |
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G.I. Joe: Renegades made the same mistake with St. Louis that Supernatural did: though all the trees around Duke's family's house are (correctly) deciduous, the ones passed by in all the car-cashes were all conifers, which would only makes sense if they were going past a series of enormous Christmas tree yard. | |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea features a massive tropical coral reef beneath friggin polar ice sheet.note While coral reefs aren't vegetation per se (they are mostly animals), they would still count as they feature as the dominant underwater terrain. Actual polar marine ecosystems can sometimes appear quite lush, but definitely not tropical coral reefs with colorful fish. That's a pinch from the movie's big geography mess-up. Wait... complete with ice-hating giant clams. | |
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Naruto: While Sasuke and Naruto are unconscious and Sakura is protecting them, the three Sound Ninjas try to kill them all. Dozo is clued into the fact that Sakura has laid traps by the fact that the dirt is a different color and that the type of grass she used to cover the dirt doesn't grow in the forest they're in. | |
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Hawksmaid, a YA novel about the teenage Maid Marian and Robin Hood, contains multiple references to potatoes; a vegetable completely unknown in 12th century England. | |
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Austin Powers lampshades this in The Spy Who Shagged Me. While supposedly driving along an English country road which looks remarkably like one in California, he remarks to camera: "You know what's remarkable? Is how much England looks in no way like Southern California." | |
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Demian, in his Television Without Pity recaps, often makes mention of Bobby's house set in the lush coastal rainforests of central South Dakota. | |
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St. Louis, Missouri is not nearly as riddled with evergreen trees and Lawrence, Kansas is not as leafy as Supernatural would have you believe, and most of the trees that are there are deciduous. The area "just outside of Grand Junction" happens to be a desert, which makes all the leafy greens outside the car when one of the characters states their location seem a little odd to Colorado natives. It's possible they're lost ontop of Grand Mesa...in the spring. Even that is a stretch. And Longmont, Colorado is not the idyllic mountain town with thick green foliage shown in the show. It's a suburb of Denver. Demian, in his Television Without Pity recaps, often makes mention of Bobby's house set in the lush coastal rainforests of central South Dakota. |
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In Troilus and Cressida, Thersites refers to "the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and potato-finger". During The Trojan War. | |
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Pirates SMP: In the treasure quest "The Drunken Nightingale – Flowers", the treasure is marked by a flower not native to the island which the treasure is found on; it's a modded flower on an island otherwise filled with flowers from vanilla Minecraft. Invoked for "The Cursed Crew – Foliage", where a superstitious pirate clan buried their treasure and planted a tree foreign to the islands in an attempt to distract the sea monster hunting them long enough to get away. The tree in question is a jungle tree on an island of acacia trees. |
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Total Drama: Courtney questions why there are palm trees in Muskoka when a coconut falls on her head in "Haute Camp-ture". The production crew responds to her complaints that the least they can do is make their props geographically correct by dumping a pile of snow, a sled, and a Native Canadian on her. None of the Final Four notice that wherever they're stranded in "Camp Castaways", it can hardly be thought of as the middle of nowhere considering there are plants in pots all around. What's more, they're mostly plants not native to the area, such as coconut palms, pineapple plants, and banana trees. Chef is the only one to express confusion, as he asks why there are palm trees and coconuts in Northern Ontario. Chris answers that they're leftover props from a dinosaur movie shoot that they reused to save money. Oddities in the flora on Pahkitew Island is one of several clues that the island is not natural. In "I Love You, Grease Pig!", Jasmine is confused to spot a Chinese mulberry bush and a manchineel tree among the island's vegetation. |
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In one Moomin story, the Moomins find a crate full of tropical seeds and plant them. Although Moominvalley is supposedly located somewhere in Nordic Europe, the plants manage to grow and thrive, thanks to a freak heatwave and rainstorm creating tropic-like weather conditions. That said, once the weather returns to normal, the plants aren't able to withstand the cold and quickly wither away. | |
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Lampshaded in-universe in Dream Park, when S.J. remarks that the vegetation in Gaming Area A is from South America rather than New Guinea. Justified in-novel (though not in-Game) by the fact that the jungle setting had been constructed by the Army for a war-game scenario simulating an attack on Brazil, and was being reused for the South Seas Treasure Game. | |
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Robin (1993): Tim Drake clues into the fact that the woods Stephen has led him into are mystical in nature when he realizes there are plants there that should not be growing in an Appalachian forest. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess eating a tomato. In ancient Greece. | |
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Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp mostly averts this, being filmed on-location at an actual East Coast summer camp. However, in a cameo in the last episode featuring Prof. Neumann hanging out in his cabin in rural Maine, he's seen on a deck underneath swaying Eucalyptus branches. The Eucalpytus is a tree native to Australia and common in California, but incapable of surviving Maine's wet climate and cold winters. | |
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In the climax of Duma Key, which takes place on an island off the west coast of Florida, the main characters have to go through a jungle containing plants that should not be there without human interference, like Australian or Brazilian trees. Justified, because the jungle was raised through supernatural means by the Big Bad as protection. | |
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The island where The Swiss Family Robinson find themselves hosts an astonishing and unlikely variety of flora and fauna. There's crabs, penguins, several types of monkeys from Old and New World, sago palms, coconut palms, elephants (tracks and damaged structures), at least one python, wild turkeys, cassava root, onagers, ostriches, falcons, and sugarcane. It gets really ridiculous at the creature whose description closely matches that of a kangaroo. | |
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The X-Files: The series was filmed predominantly in British Columbia for its first few seasons before moving to California. Consequently, everywhere on Earth looks mysteriously like Canada early on and like California later on. In a particularly egregious example, British Columbia became Puerto Rico in "Little Green Men" by turning up the color saturation and dubbing on jungle sound effects. Similarly, "Anasazi" had a New Mexico that was actually a Canadian quarry painted orange. The opposite happened once the show moved to California. Desert shots—like the ones in "Within/Without" which were actually shot in a desert—were more realistic, while the ones portraying other parts of the US became markedly less realistic. Season 7's "Chimera," for example, set in Vermont, has many plant species (and weather for the time period it's set in) that simply do not exist in New England. The episode "Detour" purportedly took place in the Apalachicola Forest in north-central Florida. A Pacific Northwest forest was used as the set instead of the expected live oaks and slash pines. |
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Subverted in Farscape where the presence of Strelitzia a.k.a. "Bird of Paradise" flowers which at first appears to be an example of this trope is actually a major plot point. | |
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Dora the Explorer is implied to take place in Central America. She has been seen picking wild blueberries in the show; mainly on Blueberry Hill, where the villain Swiper the Fox lives. Blueberries never grow in Central America, they're farther north. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Daniel comes into contact with his wife and finds out where her child is, the planet he and his wife meet on is entirely covered in blooming Scotch Broom, which is quite invasive in the Pacific Northwest. Scenes that take place in the woods immediately outside Cheyenne Mountain usually depict a lush forest with lots of ferns, which certainly would not be found in comparatively arid Colorado Springs. |
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In the multiplayer level "Turbine" in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, there are cacti littered around the map, which is explicitly set in the Sarawat Steppes of Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula. Thing is, cacti are native to the Americas, not western Asia. Since the game is set in the future, though, you could make the argument that they're a non-native invasive species. | |
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It's occasionally claimed that the trees visible in establishing shots on Seinfeld couldn't possibly grow in a New York climate — however, those shots are all taken in New York! | |
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Prickly Pear cacti can be found in some islands in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. While it's widespread in modern Greece, the species is native the US and Mexico and wouldn't be introduced to Europe for more than two thousand years. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien stated that Middle-earth is supposed to actually be our real world, thousands of years ago in some lost historical era (as opposed to a pure fantasy construction), and the parts we actually see more or less turned into Europe many eons later. Tolkien was also painfully aware, however, that it would be anachronistic for New World crops to exist in a pseudo-medieval setting like this (particularly one actually meant to be in the real past). This infamously led Tolkien to come up with an elaborate explanation for how the Hobbits can still smoke tobacco: the Numenorean explorers brought it to Middle-earth from some other continent (i.e. the ancient analogue of the Americas or something). Potatoes also exist in Middle-earth, and presumably were brought to it in the same fashion. As an expert linguist, Tolkien also thought it was anachronistic to have characters use the real-life words for these plants, which are of Native American origin (someone in the distant past of Europe wouldn't call it "tobacco"). This is why he came up with calling it "pipe-weed". He also has characters refer to "taters" most often (except for the one memorable scene when Samwise spells out that by "taters" he means "po-tay-toes"). Tolkien went so far as to even remove references to "tomatoes" from later editions of The Hobbit after the first publication edition. There are some references to "corn" in Tolkien's works, but he's using it in the British English sense of "grain" in general or "the most common grain grown in an area", not referring to "maize-corn" like the Maya would eat in the Americas. |
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Star Trek has been known to feature American vegetation on planets, even the ones where no man has gone before. Since they also have Human Aliens, Klingon coffee, and Romans speaking modern American English, that's hardly inconsistent. They wave "parallel evolution" around a lot on Star Trek. For a specific example of getting real-world vegetation wrong in Star Trek that doesn't have the "another planet" excuse, in the first episode of Enterpise, the Klingon ship crashes in Broken Bow, Oklahoma in the middle of a flat corn field. Broken Bow is far from flat, and in a coniferous forest to boot. You'd have to go to central and western Oklahoma to have any big giant corn fields like the one shown in this episode. Also doubles as Artistic License – Geography due to the lack of the ubiquitous Ouachita Mountains that surround the area. Now, it wouldn't be bad if it had been set in Broken Arrow, which still has rolling hills, but has lots of flat areas to grow corn in, but they apparently didn't think of that. In one episode of Deep Space Nine, Dr. Bashir lampshades it outright, by wondering why there's so much chlorophyll in the cells of plants on a planet orbiting a red giant. |
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Ben and Arthur has a shot of the palm trees at the "Vermont" airport. There are also abundant subtropical flora in the garden where Ben and Arthur have their "New England" wedding. | |
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And again with Rafflesias, The King of Fighters XIII has one in the Brazil stage. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles regularly shows palm trees lining the streets of Boston, which is way too far north to support them outside of carefully monitored indoor habitats. | |
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The 2001 miniseries of The Lost World has Prof. Summerlee lampshading the strange combination of flora he finds on the eponymous South American plateau. | |
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The Chosen was largely filmed in the western United States, which goes a long way to explain why there are persimmon trees growing in Roman Judaea. | |
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Cheating Death: Those That Lived: This occurs in-universe in Chaff's canyon arena, which contains plants that "do not make sense" in that sort of environment. Chaff scolds the Gamemakers for this. | |
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Lost is famous for it. One example, in several episodes of the second season we see aloe vera barbardensis... in the jungle. Also, you can see their plastic pots sometimes. This can easily be handwaved, since the island apparently has the ability to move. | |
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Assassin's Creed Origins: Giant water lilies from South America. | |
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Disney's The Jungle Book (1967): if you look very closely during the Elephant Patrol's first appearance in the film, you can actually see acacia trees in the background. Acacias grow in very dry deserts and scrubland, not jungles. In the same movie, Baloo explains to Mowgli in a song how to pick the fruit of the prickly pear... which is a species of cactus from the arid zones of America (though it's known to become an invasive species elsewhere, especially in Australia). The lyrics also briefly reference the pawpaw, a fruit tree that's also unique to the New World. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel, primarily a Medieval European Fantasy setting, includes real-life plants from Europe, Africa, and the Americas all in one continent. For example, despite otherwise being closer to a North African desert, Hammerfell includes cacti. Further, poisonous nightshades (Europe) can be found growing among edible "new world" plants like potatoes, tomatoes, and corn. Many plant species are also found growing outside of their typical climates. In the cold northern clime of Skyrim alone (setting of the eponymous game), one can find Boston Ferns (Florida and the Caribbean)note It is possible that the ferns shown in the game could be a hardy variety, like the Buckler Fern, though they have an appearance closer to the Boston variety, Orchids growing in the ground (Philippines, where they grow in treesnote Not all orchids grow in trees, and some grow in climates with cold and snowy winters. However, unlike the Skyrim orchids, the ground-growing variety are fairly small plants.), Cryptanthus (Brazil), Norfolk Island Pines (New Zealand), variegated Algerian Ivy (a modern garden cultivar that was certainly not available to the Scandinavians in the Middle Ages), tomatoes (which should not be a common crop anywhere farmers frequently complain of frosty nights during the growing season), and anywhere described as "tundra" should not have trees ("treeless" is part of the very definition of "tundra"). Likewise, Moon Sugar, a Fantastic Drug similar in appearance and effect to real-world cocaine, is primarily grown in the desert environment of Elsweyr. Real life Coca plants are almost entirely grown in low-altitude South American jungle environments. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire is a bit of a different situation from Tolkien, in that the author stated it is not supposed to be our real-life world in the distant past or future, just an alternate Fantasy world - albeit one loosely inspired by the real Middle Ages. Westeros is essentially a continent-sized version of the British Isles (roughly the size of South America), Essos is pseudo-Eurasia, Sothoryos is pseudo-Africa, etc. Generally, New World Crops have never been mentioned: tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, maize-corn, rubber. There are one or two mentions of "pumpkins" or "turkeys" in the entire, Door Stopper length novel series, but these might just be random errors. Instead of tobacco, they have a loose analogue called "sourleaf", though it's not smoked, only chewed (much like chewing tobacco). Some readers might be confused that Martin uses the term "corn", though apparently much like Tolkien he's just using it in the general sense of "grain". ...While rarely and inconsistently mentioned, there are undeniable examples of New World Crops in Westeros. In the second novel there's a scene in which Arya is in the riverlands and clearly eating roasted maize-corn on the cob, in its own ears. Repeated mention is also made of Dornish hot peppers - and if you thought they might just be pepper spices, reference is made to them being stuffed, so they're clearly bell peppers, a New World Crop. |
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Tintin: Tintin in the Congo had rubber trees, native to South America, growing wild in Africa. Possiblty justified if they're not truly wild, but simply feral, since there are commercial rubber plantations in Africa. | |
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Falstaff declares "Let the sky rain potatoes" in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Since Sir John is from the reign of Henry IV (1347-1413), he should have never heard of potatoes. (He then says "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves", so Will wasn't even trying to set this in the 14th century any more. Which doesn't stop the in-story editor of Falstaff by Robert Nye using the non-existence of potatoes as evidence everything John Fastolf says is nonsense.) | |
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The Emperor's New Groove features venus flytraps that are apparently growing on vines... in the middle of the vaguely South American jungle. Real life venus flytraps are found only in a vanishingly small range in coastal North Carolina. They are horrifyingly endangered in the wild. (The More You Know...). And Venus Flytraps don't "snap" shut; it usually takes at least second or two for the trap to mostly close, and several minutes to seal up completely. It also doesn't go "snap" — it's silent. The "teeth" are stiff bits of leaf, so no they can't bite your finger, nor can anything larger than a largish housefly get stuck in the trap. (Take two leaves, hold them together around your finger. Try to get loose. There ya go.) And despite what you see in movies, the biggest trap is less than two inches across. | |
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For some reason, Glacier le Cactank of Mega Man Zero 3 is an ice-based cactus based in a snowy region. | |
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Good Eats plays this for comedy. The episode "Down and Out in Paradise" is framed as Alton Brown being stranded on a desert island in order to show of tropical foods. Throughout the episode the various fruits, such as pineapples, mangos, and coconuts he finds confuses him as to where exactly he is, since none of those are naturally found in the same location. Turns out he was in Hawaii and just couldn't see the city across the bay from him due to losing his glasses. | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: When singing Upendi, Rafiki describes it as a place "where the passionfruit grows sweet"... except it doesn't. Passionfruit are a species of fruit native to South America. | |
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The main theme for Kirby Super Star sub game The Great Cave Offensive is called Trees in the Depths of the Earth. | |
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Spice and Wolf has a scene early on where Laurence and Holo eat baked potatoes centuries before the plant is introduced to Europe. | |
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Absolutely everywhere in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, though it's justified by being imported species for government experiments. Interestingly, the one example The Last Days of Foxhound chose to lampshade this trope (tumbleweeds) is actually a native species to the region, and an invasive weed in the southwestern United States where it is most well known. | |
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Parodied in the "I Had an Accident" episode from SpongeBob SquarePants. While "sandboarding" (the underwater equivalent of snowboarding) down a sand dune, SpongeBob almost crashes into an unexplained coniferous tree wearing scuba gear. | |
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem takes place in Gunnison, Colorado, which makes the lush, wet deciduous forest depicted surrounding the town seem rather strange to anyone who has seen the sparse pine forest that actually grows there. | |
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Animal Crossing has rafflesia, if you let there be enough weeds in your town, then one will eventually pop out of nowhere. It isn't that jarring, considering this is the same game where you can fish up piranhas and coelecanth from a small town filled with anthropomorphic animals. | |
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Asterix: Roman legionaries are seen Peeling Potatoes as part of their chores, some 1700 years before their discovery by the western world. Justified by Rule of Funny, as Anachronism Stew is nearly the entire point. | |
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An earlier animated work called Goliath II featured acacia trees growing in India. | |
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In one episode of CSI, the murder victim was found on a golf course. One clue to just where on the course the murder took place was a specific variety of bentgrass on the golf cart. Some bentgrasses are grown specifically for golf course use (they apparently make nice greens). The one they found is a noxious weed, and if it was growing anywhere on a tournament-class golf course the entire landscaping crew would have been fired. | |
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In Jurassic Park, Casuarina trees (found only in southeast Asia, Australia and India) coexist with Coast Redwood trees (found only in certain parts of California) on the same Costa Rican island. Yet Hammond goes on and on with how he spared no expense for authenticity. | |
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Halo 3: Plants from the Pacific Northwest (e.g. rhododendrons, ivy)note Actually, both of these plants are native to the Old World, but definitely not to sub-Saharan Africa in the African jungle. And there aren't any jungles in that part of Kenya anyways. | |
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Flavia the Heretic takes place in Italy circa 1400. At one moment Flavia and Abraham are on the beach eating roasted ears of corn. | |
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Major: Season 4 features the main character Goro Shigeno playing for a minor league team in Memphis, TN where the stadium is surrounded by a cityscape featuring palm trees planted LA style along the streets. Memphis is a very forested city, but palm trees don't grow well there. | |
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe plays with potatoes. Rincewind is horrified that Elizabethan England doesn't have the humble spud. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had lots of ancient Greek villages with tomato-filled carts and corn cobs drying outside. | |
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In any given episode of Friends, look closely at "Central Park" and you'll see a great example of California Doubling: since when do Eucalyptus and Cycad trees survive in New York? | |
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