Capital Wasteland plants

While most plants and fungi have long since died or have become petrified, growth still dots the Wasteland.

List of fungi
While none have specific names, they have been named upon their characteristics.

Glow Shrooms
Glow Shrooms are the green, glowing mushrooms that are found in the Capital Wasteland.

Locations
Found in most caves, metros, sewers, and other damp, dark places. Often found at sites of radiation. The Deathclaw Sanctuary has multiple formations of this fungus.

Brain Fungus
Brain Fungus appears to be a fungus that resembles a mass of brains. This fungus is found in the Capital Wasteland. The fungus shares characteristics with live tissue because when attacked by a weapon, a Ripper especially, blood flies, furthering the presumption that it has a direct relation to brain matter.

Locations
Found in many caves, as well as damp places, and near outcroppings of rocks in the Wasteland.

Cave Fungus
Cave Fungus is known only to be found in the caves of Little Lamplight. It 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 food source for the children, but it supposedly does not taste very good. Cave fungus is eaten on a spit.

Locations

 * Little Lamplight

Children of Bob
Harold and Bob are plant and human combined by FEV. They possess the quality of an extremely resistant strain of plant that can grow almost anywhere. 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 generic tree. Bob's children may spread across the Capital Wasteland as it is an option for the Lone Wanderer to choose during the Oasis quest line. There are 4 kinds of plants in Oasis. These include:
 * Trees.
 * Shrubs: These are the living equivalent of the shrubs found in the Wasteland.
 * Grass.
 * Moss: In Oasis, the ground is covered in moss.

Flowers
The majority of the flowers found in the Capital Wasteland are in human dwellings and are mostly just for decoration. However, in the Arlington Cemetery, there are three healthy flowers poking out of the soil. There are 3 types of flowers:
 * Pansies: A cluster of 3-4 purple/white pansies with a few leaves.
 * Daffodils: Long, slender leaves with 2-3 trumpet shaped yellow flowers.
 * Hollyhock: A spire of pink flowers with a few leaves at the base.

Petrified trees
While not living anymore, 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 mentions 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 a reminder of life prior to the war. There are 4 varieties of petrified trees to date:
 * 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.

Brown grass
Most wasteland grass is a sickly brown color.

Dead bushes
Most appear dead and they serve the same purpose as the petrified trees and the grass. 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 mostly swampland, however due to the nuclear fallout, even without the direct impact of atomic bombs, living plant life is a rarity. Dead cattails serve the same function as grass and are just scenery.

Mutfruit
There are only 2 types of Mutfruit: crunchy and regular. Mutfruit looks like a blue bloated version of a raspberry, and Crunchy Mutfruit looks like a brown peach with some glowing red-pink patches. The only source of Mutfruits is through traders and some stores, and have never been found growing in the wild.

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, such as the interior walls of Blackhall Manor.

Punga Fruit
In Point Lookout, the only living plant life are the strange punga. They come in 2 varieties, wild and refined. Both grow from strange brownish-green plants that dot Point Lookout.

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. Dialogue with various characters throughout Rivet City reveals that they have a hydroponics lab which is likely the source of the produce. In which case, the scientists have been engineering pre-war plants to grow with their roots systems in purified water rather than the irradiated soil of the Wasteland.

Simulated plants
These plants only exist in simulations.

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.