Exeggutor

Alolan Exeggutor: the same species, a very different shape

Pokémon Sun and Moon gave Exeggutor an Alolan form. Alolan Exeggutor keeps the Grass type but swaps Psychic for Dragon, and its neck stretches to a height of 10.9 meters, more than five times the standard form, which makes it the tallest and heaviest Grass type Pokémon. Dragon Hammer was its signature move in Generation VII. It lives on Exeggutor Island, a former trial site in Alola that is itself shaped like an Exeggutor.

Exeggutor in the anime: a stampeding herd

In the original series episode "The March of the Exeggutor Squad," a magician named Melvin uses his Exeggcute's Hypnosis on Ash and has him weaken a forest full of wild Exeggutor so Melvin can catch the whole herd. When Melvin's Exeggcute evolves and uses Hypnosis, the captured Exeggutor copy it, hypnotize one another and stampede toward town. Ash's Charmander helps stop the herd with Flamethrower alongside Melvin's fire trick, then evolves into Charmeleon.

Exeggutor on cards: Jungle, a bilingual promo and the Alolan chase cards

Exeggutor's first card is Jungle #35 from June 1999, an Uncommon illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. Evolutions (2016) reprinted a famous oddity as its secret rare #109: Dr. Ooyama's Exeggutor, a promo first handed to players at the 1999 Tropical Mega Battle in Hawaii, known as the Bilingual Exeggutor because its text is printed in Japanese with English translations.

Alolan Exeggutor split the card history in two. Its first card was Alolan Exeggutor GX in Crimson Invasion (2017), which also had a Secret Rare version, and Unified Minds (2019) paired it with Rowlet on a Tag Team GX printed as both an Ultra Rare and a Secret Rare. Surging Sparks (2024) gave Alolan Exeggutor ex a special illustration rare by Yuriko Akase and a hyper rare. The standard form returned in the 2025 Mega Evolution set with an Uncommon and an Illustration rare by Yukihiro Tada.

Why collectors care about Exeggutor

Exeggutor's run mixes long stretches of Uncommons and Rares with a few pieces collectors single out: the Bilingual Exeggutor reprint in Evolutions, the Crimson Invasion and Unified Minds Secret Rares, and the Surging Sparks special illustration rare and hyper rare. The Alolan form accounts for most of those modern chase cards.

Cards to know

• Exeggutor (Jungle #35)

  Exeggutor's first card, a 1999 uncommon illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno.

• Exeggutor (Evolutions #109)

  A secret rare reprint of Dr. Ooyama's 1999 Bilingual Exeggutor promo.

• Alolan Exeggutor GX (Crimson Invasion #118)

  The Secret Rare version of Alolan Exeggutor GX, from the Crimson Invasion set that gave the Alolan form its first card in 2017.

• Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor GX (Unified Minds #237)

  A Secret Rare Tag Team GX pairing Alolan Exeggutor with Rowlet, 2019.

• Alolan Exeggutor ex (Surging Sparks #242)

  A special illustration rare illustrated by Yuriko Akase, from 2024's Surging Sparks.