Desert Cellulosebane

The desert cellulosebane split from its ancestor, the mountain cellulosebane. To survive in its new, arid environment, the desert cellulosebane developed a second layer of chitin between its photosynthetic chitin skin and the red fungus inner cells. This layer of chitin is much denser, and can repel light and keep moisture within the flora's body.

Like its ancestor it has a chemical that not only restricts the growth of non-crystal flora but dissolves cellulose. Unlike purple flora and black flora, which are made of cellulose, crystal flora is made of photosynthetic chitin on the outside and red fungus-like cells on the inside thus making them immune to this chemical. In addition, its airborne spores are covered in this chemical. Thus they are fatal to plents who breathe them in, since their bodies are made of cellulose like flora. Each of their crystal branches can open up and release their spores.

The effect of this chemical has caused the following species to become extinct in its range: snow puff, hibernating carnofern, doublestalk, chunky pipent, scavengundi, sunstalk, sporeworm, worm phlyer, funeral pipent, woolly xenobee, parasite ballstalk, green snarf, spiky plentplaque, glass hatchball, ministalk and hypnodrak.