Desert Plyent

The desert plyent split from its ancestor, the twin plyent when some spores made it to the desert. Usually it started out at oases, but soon, with the right changes, managed to spread out over a much larger area. The first and most obvious change is the color, which is more yellow, for two reasons. First, it camouflages it against would be eaters, at least from a distance. In addition, it doesn't look like any other native flora, which is pink, so not many think to eat it. The other is the outside is much tougher, both to prevent consumption and to prevent water loss. Another thing that prevents water loss is that the leaves have shrunk considerably, but are much denser in amount of chloroplasts. To get water, the tiny root hairs have grown much longer to reach any water deep down, as well as an increase in the "roots" surface area. Due to lack of water, its juvenile state is less apparent; it simply starts out as a very small variant of the adult, without a dorsal fin entirely, and no eye at all, although the depression remains.