Toffee Tree

"The fruit was delicious; not exactly like toffee - softer for one thing, and juicy - but like fruit which reminded one of toffee."

- Chapter 13

A Toffee Tree is a tree that grows in Narnia. It is about the size of an apple tree, with very dark wood, whitish papery leaves and date-like fruit.

The tree was grown overnight from one of Polly Plummer's nine toffees, which she had brought with her from Earth to Narnia at the time of its birth.

When Polly and Digory Kirke were told by Aslan to journey to the Garden of Youth in the west, to bring an apple back from the Silver apple tree to protect Narnia from Jadis, Polly had with her a bag of toffees, which she shared with Digory during the journey.

When they ate the sweets, Digory had suggested that they eat only eight of the toffees, and plant the remaining one as an experiment to see what would happen, as the last thing that had been planted in Narnia, the Lamp-post, had grown into a tree, so why not this one?

Polly agreed, and in the morning the toffee had indeed grown into a small tree, which they also ate from.

Trivia

 * The reason the toffee grew into a tree was because the world of Narnia was newly created, and anything planted there would grow, but only while Aslan's song, which he had used to sing Narnia into existence, still hung in the air and rumbled in the ground. Aslan said it would not last long, though.
 * C.S. Lewis compares the fruit to the herb called Honesty, because of it's semi-transparent pods and paper-like leaves.
 * The Toffee Tree is only mentioned in The Magician's Nephew book, and never again.