Glountain

The glountain split from its ancestor, the glassleaf. When the glassleaf spread southwards, it came to a region with a lot of snowfall and little competition. Here it thrived and eventually evolved into a new species, the glountain. Glountains have an area between their "leaves" that is very sensitive to snowfall. Whenever the glountain senses snow, its leaves will become warmer by means of concentrating sunlight or thermogenesis, depending on the amount of light, to make the snow melt. The water will then flow down through a network of grooves, into the ring around the glountain’s base. In this ring are several pores that open when they sense water. The water is then absorbed and stored in a thickening of the glountain’s roots which also contains most of the cryoutines that live inside the glountain. This is to make it easier to keep the water and the cryoutines warm. Along with gathering water, the glountains ability to melt snow also keeps snow from hindering its photosynthesis. The fruits of glountains are brightly colored to attract fauna. They are now attached to the bottom of the "leaves", so there is more place for the grooves. At the start of winter, glountains drop their fruits. They do so because during winter, small fauna like minikruggs often come to glountain-forests, since these offer both shelter and water. The glountains take advantage of this by letting said small fauna eat the seeds and spread them.