Cryptobotany iceberg

Cryptobotany iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "The cryptobotany iceberg", was posted by u/Necrolol23 on 5 July 2025 and had about 27 upvotes when it was collected. The subreddit has 1 other chart on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "Cryptobotany" by Necrolol23, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 951 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "Cryptobotany: The study and search of unkown plants or not yet acknowledge by formal science (Originally from Icebergcharts.com)"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"The cryptobotany iceberg" by u/Necrolol23 (5 July 2025)

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• Four leaf clover – A luck talisman
• Black roses – Altohug many people belive its real it has never been found a natural one
• Waterless plants – When working with plants theres always someone askin for plants that dont need water or claiming they have one (surely a plastic one)
• Cactus shooting needles – Altough no scientific evidence there are testimonies of people seeing (or suffering) a cactus shooting needles as a form of defense
• Mandrake – A plant with alleged magical properties
• Spaghuetti tree – A fools day joke that some people belive

Tier 2

• Ya-te-veo – A carnivorous tree in central America
• Vegetal lamb – Tartarian species described by mediaval europeans
• Barnacle tree
• Man-eating tree of Madagascar
• Vegetables bigger than official record – There are reports of contests where the winner vegetable is bigger/heavier than the oficial world record (example in link)
• Man-eating tree of nubia
• Vampire vine
• The Mouse eating plant
• Murray's plum – Can be considered as a cryptid as apparently no one has seen the fruit since his discovery
• Ansault pear
• Unexplained Phosphorescent Flowers – Flowers that emit light
• The Tree of the Ten Thousand Images – Every leaf and piece of bark shows an image, naturally formed, not carved.

Tier 3

• Walking trees – Testimonies of trees moving an changing ther location
• Sylphium
• Fern flower
• Hungry grass
• Cow-eating tree of padrame
• Bohun Upas (The poison tree)
• Monkey trap tree
• Umdhlebi
• Killer grass
• Taliaferro apple – A lost cultivar

Tier 4

• Lepidodendron in modern times
• El juy-juy
• The Jumpin' Yuccy
• Death Flower of El Banoor
• Snake plant/Arbol diaboli – Two supposed species whos descriptions are so similar to each other
• Mesonsidereos
• Kumanga
• Hans Sloane´s unidentified drawings – From his expedition to Jamaica a series of botanical ilustrations hasn´t been identified
• Brazilian Devil Tree – Another man eating tree, one of which lives in the Amazon and uses its branches to ambush prey.
• Pearmain
• Orinoco corn – A supossed corn species with extemely rapid growth, native to the Orinoco's delta

Tier 5

• Laysan fan palm
• Aglaophotis
• The New Jersey giant pitcher plant
• Sakhalin island's giant plants
• Man-Eating tree of Mindanao
• Magnetic Saguaro
• Electric tree
• The specimen in London´s Natural history museum – A unidentified sample from a 12 meter high plant, unkonow finder and place of origin
• Carnivorous seaweed
• Licania caldasiana – A plant never found again after his dicovery
• Parrot tree
• Archivea kewensis

Tier 6

• Rock softening plants
• The Voynich manuscript
• Chloroform Tree
• La sombra que mata
• Cimbubon island tree
• Chestnut tree becomes a sycamore
• Cursed Tree of Cornwall – Legend says that anyone who plucks a leaf from the tree will die within the heat
• Killer cactus
• Bee-eating tree – Most mysterrius cryptid
• Agy Tree – A tree of Madagascar that supposedly causes one to be injected with lots of little barbs when they brush past it, causing irritation.
• The Tiger Tree – A tree of Venezuela that if you so much as walk under it, your body will become victim to a terrible rash.
• Orfa Tree – A tree that when cracked open during a war, it bled a blood-like fluid towards the losing party.

Tier 7

• Silicon trees – A crazy conspiracy theory
• Moss man
• Vegetable man – A plant cryptid or something more?
• Cactus cat
• Cryptids diet – A overlooked aspect when discussing cryptids are the ecological interactions, like food webs

Tier 8

• why so few plant cryptids? – At least when compared to animal cryptids
• A common plant is unkown to science – There a posibility that a plant could be overlooked by scientists
• 100.000+ undiscovered plant species – As far as we know
• No fungi cryptids??? – Are there any???

Other versions

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

• 
  The Great Iceberg of Cryptobotany by u/PrestigiousTask5394, 25 June 2026 (13 upvotes)

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts
• Cryptid evidence iceberg

Sources

• Featured Reddit chart: u/Necrolol23. The cryptobotany iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 5 July 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
• IcebergThreads version: Necrolol23. Cryptobotany. IcebergThreads. 2 February 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.