| Truffula Tree | |||
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| General information | |||
| Universe | Dr. Seuss | ||
| Aliases | Thneed | ||
| Classification | Truffula laetus | ||
| Species type | Tree | ||
| Homeworld | Seussville | ||
| Environment | Truffula Forest | ||
| Intelligence | Non-sapient | ||
| Biochemistry | Carbon-based biology | ||
| Discovered | By the Onceler. | ||
| Discoverer | Once-Ler | ||
| Biological information | |||
| Reproduction | It takes 30 years and months to grow. | ||
| Average height | 25 meters tall. | ||
| Average weight | 10”4 | ||
| Average width | 5”8 | ||
| Feeding behavior | Photosynthesis | ||
| Predators | Barb-a-loots, Humans Swommee Swans, and Humming Fish. | ||
| Distinctive features | Tower-like body | ||
| Skin color | Green | ||
| Lineage information | |||
| Ancestor(s) | Peat Mosses | ||
| Descendant(s) | Mutant Creeper | ||
| Related species | Other Peat Moss | ||
| Cultural information | |||
| Alignment | Made into Thneeds. | ||
| Affiliation(s) | Independent | ||
| Sociocultral characteristics | |||
| Scientific taxonomy | |||
| Domain | Eukaryota | ||
| Kingdom | Plantae | ||
| Phylum | Tracheophytes | ||
| Class | Angiosperms | ||
| Order | Truffules | ||
| Family | Truffulaceae | ||
| Genus | Truffula | ||
| Species | T. laetus | ||
| Other information | |||
| Status | Critically endangered | ||
| Creator | Theodore Seuss Geisel | ||
| First sighting | Found by the Once-ler. | ||
The Trufffula Tree is a species of flowering tree native to the Truffula forest. Discovered by the Once-ler and used to make his invention the Thneed, but as time went on all the truffula trees were chopped down. Destroying not only the forest but the ecosystem leading to the animals living in the forest and the Lorax abandoning it. In the Tv special The Once-ler gave a boy the last Truffula seed to have him plant it to grow a forest and protect it from axes that hack.
In the movie however, the seed was planted in the center of the city Thneedville. it grew into a red truffula tree sapling. In the end of film the Once-ler waters the new truffula saplings, In the credits of film, the truffula forest returned as well as the animals that once inhabited the truffula forest before the Once-ler discovered the forest.
Biology[]
They are distinguished by their striped trunks and colorful dandelion-like tops. The tufts of the trees came in different colors, red, pink, purple, orange, And yellow. the Lorax states that it takes ten months for a truffula seed to germinate, then after that ten long years before seed grows into a sapling an additional ten years to grow into a full grown tree. The Tufts of the truffula trees Is much softer than silk, and it had sweet smell of fresh butterfly milk.