Capital Wasteland plants

While most plants have long since died or have become petrified, interesting fungi growth dots the Wasteland. Some of the more prevalent forms of growth are the green, glowing mushrooms and what looks like a mass of brains. The only place in the Wasteland that is reachable with living trees is Oasis, but even then, the plants seem to be the children of a freak mutation of a plant that came in contact with FEV.

List of Fungi
While none have specific names, they have been named upon their characteristics. If name does not seem accurate to the scientific folk, feel free to change the names.

Glow shrooms
Glow shrooms are the green glowing mushrooms that were mentioned above. Often found within caves or near sites of radiation proposing the idea that the plants can withstand radiation.

Brain fungi
Brain fungus appears to be a fungus that looks like a mass of brains. It is possible that it is infact brain matter because when it is attacked by a weapon, a Ripper especially, blood flys everywhere. Possibly a combining of a fungus and brain matter like Harold and Bob were combined.

Cave Fungus
Cave Fungus is known only to be found in the Caves of Little Lamplight. While the exact location of where the fungus grows has never been documented by the Lone Wanderer, it is a medicinal fungus and is used extensively by the children of Little Lamplight. The fungus is believed to have grown out of the bodies of deceased adults within the caves. The fungus thrives off of Strange Meat which is basically human meat. The Medicinal properties of the fungus is that it soaks up radiation and replenishes lost health. It also acts as a foodsource for the children, but it supposedly does not taste very good. Cave fungus is eaten on a spit.

Children of Bob
Harold and Bob are a combined plant and human by theFEV, they possess the quality of an extremely resistant strain of plant that can grow almost anywhere. Bob is suggested as being sentient by Harold, this provides a humorous scenario if one uses their imagination to make up a world of sentient plant life. They are found in Oasis which is bustling in life from Bob's children. Bob's Children look nothing like Bob and take the appearance of a general tree. It may be possible that the trees will eventually evolve and become different species of plants, but this has yet to happen. If the FEV has the same effect on Bob and Harold as it does the Super Mutants, then it is not out of the question that Bob will become significantly larger and more evolved like the transformation of Super Mutant to Super Mutant Behemoth. Bob's children may spread across Capital Wasteland as it is an option for the Lone Wanderer to choose during the Oasis quest line. To say the least, Harold and Bob will probably appear in more Fallout games as they are 3 for 3 currently. There are 4 kinds of plants in the Oasis, these include:
 * Trees: Probably the most strinking element in the Oasis. They are your standard living green and photosynthesing tree with leaves ranging from a deep green to a yellowish green
 * Shrubs: These are the living equivalent of the shrubs found in the wasteland.
 * Ferns: What at first looked like grass are really ferns considering the way they look
 * Moss: In the Oasis the ground is covered in Moss.

Flowers
While living plantlife is a rarity in the wasteland there are sevral flowers popping up from the soil (or in vases) around the Capital Wasteland. However the majority of these flowers are in human dwellings and are mostly just as decoration. However in the Arlington Cemetery three healthy flowers are poking their blooms out of the soil. There are 3 types of flowers so far:
 * Pansies: A cluster of 3-4 purple/white pansiess with a few leaves.
 * Daffodils: Long slender leaves with 3-2 trumpet shaped yellow flowers
 * Hollyhock: A spire of pink flowers with a few leaves at the base

Petrified trees
While not living anymore, as far as we know, they are at least 150 years old (150 years because it is unknown whether or not the radiation instantly petrified the trees or slowly killed them). Three Dog mentions that the trees are in fact dead when he vaguely mention Oasis in one of his radio broadcasts. They provide no benefits to the Wasteland except cover when in fights, scenery while roaming the Capital, and reminder of life prior to the war. There are to date 4 varieties of petrified trees:


 * Regular:A trunk with a mass of leafless branches
 * Pine: A spire of leafless branches
 * Willow:Drooping low hanging branches
 * Mangrove:Lots of roots with thin trunks and a few branches

Dead grass/ferns
Grass killed by the Nuclear Fallout. The grass that remains is used for food by Brahmin though it gives very litlle nutritional value considering that it has been stewing in radiation for hundreds of years.The grass serves the same purposes of the Petrified Trees, but provides no protection from weapons.

Dead bushes
Most appear dead and they serve the same purpose as the Petrified Trees and the Grass. However, the bushes provide little cover from fighting, but they do prove themselves a nuisance in VATS as they will cause hit percentages to drop to 0% even if the enemy is standing 5 feet away from you.

Dead Cattails
Point Lookout is majorily swampland, however due to the Nuclear fallout even without the impact of atomic bombs living plantlife is a rarity. Dead Cattails serve the same function as grass and are just scenery

Mutfruit
Only 2 types of Mutfruit (which is a shortened version of Mutated Fruit): Crunchy and Regular. Cruchy Mutfruit looks like a blue bloated version of a razzberry (It could have previously been Grapes) and Mutfruit look like a brown peach with some glowing red-pink patches (It may have been a peach previously). The only source of mutfruits is through traders and some stores and have never been found growing in the Wild.

Strange Black Vines
Covering many building interiors and exteriors in point lookout are what appear to be strange leafless vines that cover many structures in Point Lookout (Example look at the Interior walls of Blackhall Manor). My guess is that they are a mutant variety of some climbing plant considering that they grow indoors as well as outdoors.

Punga Fruit
In point lookout, the only living plantlife are the strange punga. They come in 2 varities, regular and refined. Both grow from strange brownish-green plants that dot Point lookout. It is unknown what plant they previously were.

Fresh fruits and vegetables
The fresh fruit and vegetables of the wasteland can be found in the Arlington Public Library beside a trash can in a bathroom and in the Science Lab at Rivet City which are closely guarded by the scientists so stealing them is not recommended. The Lone Wanderer does not find out exactly how they are created, but the fact that fruit and veggies still exists is a relief.

Simulated Plants
Although these plants only exist in simulations I feel they should be included in this section.

Pine Trees
2 varieties exist: The living kind found in Tranquility lane and the Dormant kind in Operation Anchorage. Both are a tower of branches and pine needles

Outlook of the Wasteland
While Humanity and Mother Earth's greatest bet for the repopulation of Flora within the Capital Wasteland lies with Bob, it may be possible that with Project Purity being a success, that plant life may naturally return. The existance of fruit and vegetables hint that farming may make a comeback. Only time will tell what the future for the Wasteland's Flora is and maybe it is not such a far-off idea that humanity will fix what they have broken.