Pine tree

Pine tree
The Planet Express crew looking at the pine trees.
Homeworld	Earth
First appearance	"Spanish Fry" (4ACV17)

Pine trees (Pinus xmas) became extinct during the Fifty-Year Squirts, when they were all chopped down to make toilet paper, ^[6ACV13] over eight hundred years ago, gone the way of the poodle and the primitive notions of modesty of 20th-century people. ^[2ACV04] However, their seeds have been kept preserved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and they were even seen in forests in 3004. ^[4ACV17]

In a non-canon segment regarding Xmas 3010, pine trees were brought back from extinction by the Planet Express crew. However, they had been mutated by a virus from the Germ Warfare Repository and eventually covered Earth in forests. Due to all the oxygen they created, the atmosphere burned up when Bender lit a cigar. ^[6ACV13]

Image Gallery

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  Pinus xmas.

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  Pine tree seeds.

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  Earth before being covered in pine trees.

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  Earth after being covered in pine trees.

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  Earth as burnt by Bender's cigar.

Additional Info

Trivia

• The pine trees only appeared in a non-canon segment, so they may not actually be kept in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
• In "Spanish Fry", the Planet Express crew went to a forest that seems to be coniferous. It is most likely that its pine trees were artificial.

Quotes

Fry: They're supposed to be some kinda, you know, pine tree.
Professor Farnsworth: Pine trees have been extinct for 800 years, Fry. Gone the way of the poodle and your primitive notions of modesty.

Appearances

• "A Big Piece of Garbage" (1ACV08)
  
  (mentioned only)
• "Xmas Story" (2ACV04)
  
  (mentioned only)
• "Spanish Fry" (4ACV17)
  
• "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" (6ACV13)