Tropius is a dual type Grass and Flying Pokemon introduced in Generation III. It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokemon. Take a look below for 26 awesome and fascinating facts about Tropius.

1. Tropius is a large sauropod-like Pokemon with a brown body wrapped in green leaves on its chest and head.

2. It possesses large, broad green leaves on its back, which it uses for flight and for sugar production via photosynthesis.

3. Despite being very big and bulky, it is surprisingly maneuverable in the air. 

4. It has a long neck with a thin black line around it.

5. It uses its neck for reaching treetops to gorge on its most favored fruit.

6. Since it ate only this kind of fruit continuously, the fruit began to grow around its neck.

7. These yellow, banana-like fruits can be picked and consumed by other Pokémon or humans, and grow twice a year because of the rapid production of sugar in Tropius’s leaves.

8. Its feet have toenails the same color as its fruit.

9. In warm areas, there are ranches that raise Tropius.

10. In Alola, its fruit is especially sweet compared to those of other regions.

11. It lives in tropical jungles.

12. Tropius is exactly the same size as another Grass-type Pokémon, Venusaur. Both have a height of 6’7″ (2.0 m) and a weight of 220.5 lbs. (100.0 kg).

13. Tropius was the first Pokémon to be distributed in a Cherish Ball, with the Shokotan Tropius distribution.

14. Tropius shares its category with Bounsweet, Steenee, and Tsareena. They are all known as the Fruit Pokémon.

15. Of all the Pokémon that existed during Generation IV, Tropius is the only one that is exclusive to Platinum.

16. Tropius resembles a generic sauropod, a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur, combined with a banana plant.

17. Tropius is a combination of tropical and saurus (Greek for lizard). It may also be a pun of tropism: phototropism is when plants move to catch more sunlight, and if a plant is not planted upright, the roots will use gravitropism to grow towards gravity and find water.

18. A Tropius appeared in From Brags to Riches. A Trainer named Dominick used the Fruit Pokémon and a Swalot in his battle against Ash’s Corphish and Torkoal. Tropius and Torkoal knocked each other out when their Solar Beam and Overheat attacks connected and created an explosion. Tropius reappeared in a flashback in the next episode.

19. A wild Tropius appeared in Odd Pokémon Out as a resident of Camomile Island. It challenged Ash’s Grovyle when it and Grovyle started competing for the love of Nurse Joy’s Meganium.

20. Tropius debuted in Jirachi: Wish Maker as one of the residents of Forina, Jirachi’s home. Later, it was among those fleeing from the fake Groudon that was trying to snatch all the Pokémon.

21. A Tropius appeared in the opening sequence of Destiny Deoxys.

22. A Trainer’s Tropius appeared in a fantasy in Like a Meowth to a Flame.

23. Two Tropius appeared in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. One was seen during the opening intro of the movie, while the other was under the ownership of a Trainer and battled Kidd Summers’s Weavile during the Rota tournament.

24. A Coordinator’s Tropius appeared in May, We Harley Drew’d Ya!.

25. A Tropius appeared in The Rise of Darkrai, where it was one of the Pokémon Darkrai hit with a Dark Void.

26. A Tropius appeared in the opening sequence of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.