In this thread I will be posting descriptions of the many plants I have made, when I have time. I have so many I have sometimes given up trying to write them all down. I also posted a parallel thread in Geography and Flora.
Here are the first of them.



Small hollow cones made of a thin, transparent film, roughly 1 1/2 cm high and 1/2 cm wide at the base, or smaller. They grow in dense patches on the bark of certain rain forest trees all year. sometimes they are clouded with a misty gray color. They can be pressed flat, and even scraped, and they will refill with air.

Another variation is like a honeycomb, about 1/2 cm tall, with cells that have domed caps.



A plant that grows entirely underground. Roughly globular in shape, with a surface warped like a potato. It is covered in scales, which are like the wrinkles in an elephants hide, and its texture is like impenetrable leather. It is crocodile brown in color. It sends out a massive amount of fine roots, and the most massive ones sometimes put out huge tree roots. They reproduce by growing out of a new center at the end of a very long, thread like root.
These kinds of pants can make the ground rise up into a hill. There are other kinds with scales like the compound eyes of an insect.



An evergreen scale leaved tree that bears a fruit that looks like a pair of pale green leaves.

Another evergreen scale leaved tree, perhaps the same kind, that bears tiny pink and purple flowers at the ends of long, almost wire thin stalks.

Those are interesting plants, and I especially like the one that grows underground. Are you going to give them names?

Strangely I make up names and things separately. I will even make up a name and attach a meaning to it more often than I will make up a thing and attach a name to it.

The first would be called imerben. the subterranean plant would be called lodhlohs, and the second kind of subterranean plant, the one that is like a compound eye, would be called gizhas, and agnoshia.



It is the same force by which plants and animals fly without wings and inhabit the starless voids of space. I have a long list of things to post.

Here are some of their properties.

The leaf-seeds and flowers of the evergreen would make a sweet tea, piny, but mellow and not spicy. I forgot to name the evergreen last time; it is called meneth.

The lodhlohs would cause feelings of indefinable dismay and heaviness if it was eaten (boiled, no one would be able to do more than dent it if it was raw, or baked). The agnoshia is probably neutral, and would taste bitter.

The imerben would be hard to gather. Unless you took the bark as well. You would only be able to make a bland, woody tasting tea, though perhaps soothing.

Here is a deathly plant.

The ecioc, the archer thistle, has long, thick, serrated, black leaves frosted with needles. The whole plant is black, and it bears flowers, like thistle flowers, between the serrations of its leaves. The flowers are red in the center, fading to pink, and then to white around the edges. A single seed develops in a pocket where the flower drops off.

Around the mouth of this pocket are many white sensory hairs. These sense body heat, and when a man or beast comes near enough, the pocket shoots the seed, which is black, and sharp, into the flesh of the man or beast. Poisons in the skin of the seed cause the wound to close and become numb, and a capsule of hardened flesh to form around the seed.

After a long while, as long as three months or a year and a half, the seeds release poisons that cause the victim convulse violently, and thirst, and soon, to die. The seeds often sprout dark, barbed sprouts even before the victim has died.

It grows in sandy soil among scattered trees in mildly hot, dry climes. It can grow to nearly waist high.

Tsahraf, again you have confounded me with your ingenous literary inventions. A few questions:

1. Are imerben reproductive systems for the tree or are they growths like lichen?

2. How large do lodhlohs grow?

Once again, awesome stuff!

-Aeleknight

1
They are growths like lichen.

2
They grow nearly as wide as a round table, but some sorts of subterranean plants can grow as large as a small hill. It is imposing to see the ground pushed high up in a round hill, in a wide, level plain.