D&D Basic Monsters: Awakened Tree

While Treants have been with the game from the beginning, the Awakened Tree as a distinct monster is fairly new. There have also been several opportunities for spell casters to animate trees (for instance Druids with the Liveoak-spell) these also used the stat block of the Treant.

The Ent have of course been made famous by Tolkien, but even long before that walking trees have been a part of myth and history. A famous example is of course Birnam Forest from Shakespeare's MacBeth.

In any case, visual inspiration for this specific Awakened Tree came from the "evil" tree in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony "Flowers and Trees".