The Kite-Eating Tree is a fictional tree featured in the comic strip Peanuts created by Charles M. Schulz. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 &ndash February 12 2000 was an American Cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts Comic strip

A Kite-Eating Tree is a deciduous tree of indeterminate type. Botany Autumn leaf color. See --> In Botany and Horticulture, deciduous Plants, including According to Charlie Brown, it is impossible to tell a kite-eating tree from non-kite-eating trees by sight until it catches a kite in its branches, which it slowly devours. Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the Comic A kite is a flying tethered object that depends upon the tension of a tethering system Charlie Brown often envisioned such a tree with a huge grin on its "face".

Many of the kites that Charlie Brown attempted to fly were eaten by a particular Kite-Eating Tree, which he frequently engaged in one-sided dialogue. Once Lucy van Pelt threw Schroeder's piano into the Kite-Eating Tree, which it also ate, proving that the phenomenon was not simply a product of Charlie Brown's imagination. Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a Fictional character in the syndicated Comic strip Peanuts, written Schroeder is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers

Besides being able to eat inedible objects, the Kite-Eating Tree has some other strange characteristics. It is apparently not rooted to the ground, seeing as on one occasion it walked straight up to Charlie Brown's front door, which Charlie Brown says that he hates.

Apparently the Kite-Eating Tree can even distinguish between different "flavors" of kites; in a 1982 strip, Charlie Brown wonders what "flavor" kite he should give the tree this year, and finally settles on lemon, since he took strawberry the year before. The lemon ( Citrus × limon) is a hybrid in cultivated wild plants Garden strawberries are a common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide On one occasion, the tree visibly shuddered at the notion of Charlie Brown giving up kite-flying.

In a 1995 strip, Linus shows great concern because of the tree's presence, wondering what kind of world he was living in that a Kite-Eating Tree could exist. Later that year, Lucy threatens to throw Linus' blanket into the tree; not long afterwards, she actually did.

Charlie Brown once threatened the Kite-Eating Tree that if it took a bite out of his kite, he would bite it, which he did, thus getting himself in trouble with the Environmental Protection Agency. He ran away to avoid being sent to jail and became the coach of a baseball team of very small children. Later, Linus van Pelt convinced Charlie Brown that it was safe to come home, because the tree had fallen over in a rainstorm; nonetheless, the Kite-Eating Tree, or another of its species, later returned. Linus van Pelt is one of the characters in Charles M Schulz 's Comic strip Peanuts. (This storyline was adaptated into animation in It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown. It's an Adventure Charlie Brown is one of many Prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular Comic strip Peanuts )

Digestion of kites

The Kite-Eating Tree was an attraction at Camp Snoopy in the Mall of America before the rebrand in 2006. Mall of America (also MOA, MoA or the Megamall) is a super-regional shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington

It is unsure quite how the Kite-Eating Tree actually eats the kites, although it makes audible "munching" sounds as it does so. Charlie Brown once said that the sight of a Kite-Eating Tree eating a kite was "the most gruesome thing [he had] ever seen. " The sight of a Kite-Eating Tree eating a kite also caused Lucy to scream and fall to the ground. However, in neither incident was it stated that the kite-eating process was completed in only the few seconds during which either character watched the process.

Once, after the tree ate yet another of Charlie Brown's kites, Lucy shouted at it so loudly that it regurgitated not only that kite but also a flood of other people's kites, suggesting that, no matter how many kites the tree holds, it only eats one at a time, saving the rest for future feasts.

Charlie Brown has told Linus that Kite-Eating Trees "eat the paper like it was fried chicken, and spit out the sticks like bones!" Charlie Brown may have, in his frustration, been exaggerating, for no sticks have been seen lying around the Kite-Eating Tree (possible it moves around so it might be in a different place every time it eats).

Evidently kite-eating trees have physiologies somewhat similar to animals, since Charlie Brown once threatened to kick the Kite-Eating Tree right in the "stomach. " However, when he kicked its "stomach", Charlie Brown hurt his foot, remarking that Kite-Eating Trees "have hard stomachs. "

Other media

The Kite-Eating Tree appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Vegetable Funfest. Robot Chicken is an Emmy -Award Winning American Stop motion animated television series created by Seth Green and Matthew " It is seen eating The Great Pumpkin near the end of the skit. The Great Pumpkin is an Unseen character in the Comic strip Peanuts by Charles M