Air pockets within the surface recreate the ideal Vord atmosphere, and any natural life that gets caught in the Croach is gradually broken down into nutrients for the Vord creatures to sustain their biomass. It quickly spreads to cover all territory that the Vord overrun, coating the ground, trees and buildings alike in a thick layer of green, glossy wax. It's defeated when the semi-tropical heatwave (conditions it thrived in) ends. The Bongleweed by Helen Cresswell, a children's book about an incredibly fast-growing escapee from a botanical garden, that overruns the countryside during a heatwave.It wants to do this to every world it can spread to. When Squad 312 gets to Octavia III, they find that all of the planet's former native fauna is gone, replaced by the Ra'haam. Aurora Cycle: One of the many pleasant attributes of the Botanical Abomination known as the Ra'haam.A couple of named characters are transformed into aberrations by exposure and the narrator's Love Interest barely survives. To make it worse, humans are not exempt from the transformation. In a short novel by Brian Aldiss, a couple of an alien race named as the Charioteers soak a rural English farm with an equally alien enzyme, which massively increases production of everything the farm produces: milk, produce and meat, at the cost of making it completely inedible for humans.It helps the protagonists in many ways, such as breaking their falls or providing them items. In Super Mario Bros., the former king of Dinohattan has been de-evolved into a fungus, which got his revenge by taking over the whole city.The vines eventually extend beyong that residence, swallowing a police car. Jumanji: At one point, after Jude throws the dice and reach a certain tile in the board, the table warns about ivies that not only can shoot poisonous darts, but also turn a whole mansion (the Parish one, in this case) into a deep jungle.Invasion of the Body Snatchers embodies this trope.2 Ego attempts to turn multiple planets into extensions of himself by planting seedlings on them that would later terraform the planet. Dreamcatcher features a red fungus that spreads like a rash but also grows on the scenery.The segment ends with a radio weather forcast calling for extended heavy rains. Jordy ends his horrible ordeal with a shotgun. The next morning we see that the water has accelerated the growth of the fungus/alien kudzu and it now covers Jordy, farmhouse and surrounding land completely. The substance also causes him to itch unbearably and even after being warned by the ghost of his father not to take a bath, he finally can no longer resist and sinks into the filthy tub. After he is contaminated with the oozing interior "meteor shit!" while trying to retrieve the object, he starts to sprout a plant-like fungus which quickly spreads to much of his body. In a segment of the 1982 film Creepshow entitled "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verril", the title character (played by Stephen King, who wrote the script) discovers a newly fallen metorite.
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