Desert Groundcloud

The desert groundcloud split from its ancestor and doubled in size, along with that its colonies have become slightly more elaborate. This organism is the result of a strain of nimbus cloud that was able to survive falling to the ground. They are able to thrive in their dry environments due to their ancestors' struggles in the atmosphere and the high levels of UV rays are simply absorbed to power their photosynthesis. The colony is held together by a stringy skin-like layer, the part that touches the ground becomes tough and tethers the colony down while the rest of the colony gathers in the opposite direction. Unlike their ancestor the colonies rarely reach over a meter in length. Colonies will separate into the individual cells during rain, the cells will rapidly multiply at this time taking full advantage of the abundance of water, after the ground dries the cells will cluster back together to form new colonies. Often after this whole fields of desert groundcloud colonies can appear covering the desert.