The Boy Tree is one of the main characters from the 1932 Silly Symphony short Flowers and Trees.
Background[]
Personality[]
The Boy Tree is shown to have a loving personality to his interest, the Lady Tree, where the former attempts to attract him. He is shown to be attractive of her so that he can get her attention. He is also shown to be defensive of imminent threats that occur, such as the case of him defending his interest from the Old Man Tree attempting to get the Lady Tree as his interest or whenever a fire occurs in the forest.
Physical appearance[]
The Boy Tree is a young healthy tree in a pale brown coloration with a human-like face located on the top of his crown. He is also shown to have black leaves located on the top of his crown as well as having human-like arms as well as human-like legs which make up for his roots.
Appearances[]
Flowers and Trees[]
The Boy Tree is first seen waking up in the morning and next to him is the Lady Tree who feels overjoyed, while a rival tree, the Old Man Tree, wakes up during the morning. He then uses the flower vines from a non-anthropomorphic tree as a harp to get the Lady Tree's attention and as she hears the tune, she happily dances while another tree conducts a flock of robins who sing together, followed by a group of sunflowers dancing around her. The sunflowers then bring her to the Boy Tree just as he tries to get attention, only for his attempt to fail.
Seeing the Old Man Tree getting attracted to the Lady Tree and trying to take her for himself, the Boy Tree reacts and shock and defends his interest from the rival tree, engaging into a battle between two interests. In battle, the Lady Tree worriedly reacts to the Boy Tree in danger, but the Boy Tree managed to win the fight. As the Old Man Tree ignites his weapon on fire and threw it at them, the Boy Tree attempts to extinguish the fire, but the fire is too strong, so a flock of birds flew into the sky to poke holes through the clouds, causing a rain to extinguish the fire, saving the Boy Tree and his love interest, as well the survivors in the forest, followed by the Old Man Tree who was reduced to a burnt log during the fire. With the fire extinguished, the Boy Tree proposes the Lady Tree to marry him using a caterpillar as her wedding ring. As the wedding starts, the Boy Tree falls in love with Lady Tree, as the other flowers and trees happily react to their kiss.
Other Appearances[]
The Boy Tree, Lady Tree, and several sunflowers and other trees were featured in the Flowers & Trees air freshener commercial in the House of Mouse episode "Donald's Pumbaa Prank".
The Boy Tree and the Lady Tree are briefly seen in Once Upon a Studio in a group photo during the end of the short with various other Disney characters outside the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Trivia[]
- On the theatrical poster for Flowers and Trees, the Boy Tree's leaves located on the top of his face are colored green instead of black.