Cryobowl

The cryobowl has split from its ancestor, the hollow cryodome. This happened when a group of the cryodome moved out of the Sublyme Limestone Caves and into the East Drake Boreal. Outside of the relatively warm caves, though, the cryodomes had trouble accessing water through the frozen soil, and once the water was stored it had a tendency to freeze. This was solved when one of the cryodomes was born without the top part of the shell, giving it a bowl-like shape. Not only was this cryodome able to catch snow in its “bowl”, allowing it to gather water without having to draw it from the frozen ground, but it also allowed the cryodome to keep the water liquid without expending energy, as the glass shell kept the water liquid. Over time, the cryobowl grew wider to gather more sunlight and water. It produces seeds on the rim of the bowl, which are spread when mobile organisms such as the boreal tailhopper come to drink out of it, or simply fall off or get caught in the wind. This has allowed it to spread all over drake.