Tree Wollyhop
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| Scientific name | Viridis picea amphicaris | ||
| Family | Amphituber | ||
| Areas | Land of Wonders, in the Marsh Territory | ||
| Carry weight | 30 | ||
| Max. carriers | 60 | ||
| Seed worth | 50 | ||
| Attacks | Crushes Pikmin, eats Pikmin, deflowers Pikmin | ||
The Green Tree Wollywog is a large amphituber, and also the only amphituber, appearing in Pikmin: Attack of the Breadbugs. It is only found in a cave in the Marsh Territory of the Land of Wonders. When Captain Olimar and his Pikmin enter its lair, the Green Tree Wollywog announces its arrival with a loud croak and falls through a large hole in the roof of the cave to confront them. A rusty metal grate positioned above the cave's only exit slams shut, leaving Olimar and his squad trapped there until the creature is defeated. Its main form of attack is crushing Pikmin, but it can also eat them from a distance by using its long, sticky tongue to pull several of them into its mouth at once.
The creature is about the size of a Raging Long Legs's main body and is more frog-shaped than most other wollywogs. It strongly resembles a real-world red-eyed tree frog in appearance, having bulging red eyes with vertical, black, reptilian pupils, green skin with a pale, cream-colored underside, and red-orange toes. Its limbs are also green, but their undersides are blue. Overall, the Green Tree Wollywog has a colorful appearance that dominates its surrounding environment.
At a distance, the Green Tree Wollywog will lash its long tongue out to eat Pikmin in front of it. Every Pikmin it eats will restore a small portion of its health. This attack becomes increasingly more accurate as the creature's health is drained. The Green Tree Wollywog may also choose to crush Pikmin instead of eating them, where it will leap into the air and try to land on top of them, without floating as most other adult amphitubers do. This can attack can be dodged by watching for the amphituber to prepare itself for a jump and moving to a different spot before it leaps. Pikmin that are beside, but not under, the Green Tree Wollywog once it lands will be thrown back and possibly have their maturities reduced to the leaf stage. Once the Green Tree Wollywog reaches half-health, it will change its jumping attack; instead of jumping once, it will jump three times in rapid succession. Outmaneuver the creature and continue to throw any Pikmin type onto it to defeat it. When the Green Tree Wollywog is defeated, it will struggle towards the blocked-off exit of the cave and, realizing it is trapped there, use its last remaining bit of energy to spring into the grate to free itself, ultimately resulting in its demise but also allowing Olimar and his Pikmin to leave.