A mess of roots, vines, stems, leaves, and flowers. This is the floral growth upon your scales. Welcome or not, it is here to stay. Though it is truly unknown how these plants achieved symbiosis with you, it has remained mutualistic after the Keystone Druid, Norroch, instructed and trained you to achieve such. Mastery of this new aspect will take time, but there are some perks to this condition available in the mean time.
| d8 result | Germinated Symbiont | Feature |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia). A cactus known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Prickly pears typically grow with flat, rounded cladodes (the big fans, also called platyclades) containing large, smooth, fixed spines up to an inch. They produce red, oval fruits and are known for their unique flavor. | |
| 2 | Baobab Tree (Adansonia). A deciduous tree with a formidable structure. Baobabs are long-lived and have large flowers, ephemeral flowers. The flowers open around one dusk with sufficiently rapid movement that is detectable by the naked eye. They often have broad trunks and compact crowns. Mature trees have massive trunks that are cylindrical and tapered from bottom to top. | |
| 3 | Joshua/Yucca Tree (Yucca). A monocotyledonous tree, with odd curves in its trunk and branches. They hold a significance to DeMorrian cultures, symbolizing patience and perseverance. Once they bloom, the flowers are pollinated by the yucca moth (Tegeticula synthetica), which spreads pollen while laying eggs inside the flower. The larvae feed on the seeds, but enough seeds remain to reproduce. | |
| 4 | Tree Tumbo (Welswitschia). A unique plant that only grows two leaves which continue to grow throughout the plant's life. Tree Tumbos are one of the longest-living plants, with some individuals being thousands of years old. As a gymnosperm, Tree Tumbos use cones to reproduce. Both male and female plants produce nectar from their cones that attract insects that then carry the pollen to other plants. | |
| 5 | Wollemi Pine (Wollemia). A coniferous tree represented by only a single known species. The bark is very distinctive, dark brown, and knobbly. The tree splits readily, and most specimens are multiple-trunked with some consisting of up to 100 stems of differing sizes. The branching is unusual in that most of the side branches never have further branching. After a few years, each branch either terminates in one or a succession of cones. New branches arise from dormant buds on the main trunk. As trees mature, side branches develop into secondary trunks. | |
| 6 | Aloe (Aloe). A succulent rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves. Aloe flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, orange, pink, or red, and are bloom in clusters at the end of leafless stems. Many species of Aloe appear to be stemless, with the rosette growing directly at ground level. They vary in color from grey to bright-green and are sometimes striped or mottled. These are often used to treat wounds, especially burns. | |
| 7 | Bluestem Grass (Schizachyrium). An upright, roundish mound of soft, bluish-green grass about two to three feet tall. In Secondsummer, it initiates flowering stalks, which reach four to five feet in height. Its colors will gradually fade throughout the year, turning a coppery orange color with tints of red or purple, then an orangeish-bronze to tan. Bluestem Grass are a perennial bunchgrasses and are prominent in tallgrass prairies. | |
| 8 | Golden Poppy (Eschscholzia). A flower with notable alchemical use. It bears four yellow or orange petals on the flower, either alone or in many-flowered clusters. The petals forms a funnel, which close in cloudy weather. Seeds are tiny and black, held in long pointed pods that split open when ripe often with enough force to fling the seeds some distance with an audible snap. Unripe seed pods can be sliced to extract a milky white sap with narcotic properties. |
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