Signpost Crystamboo

The signpost crystamboo has a straight, cylindrical trunk, of wood-like color and surface hardness. Unlike its ancestor, it produces multiple photosynthetic crystals per trunk, with two per internodal split. Each crystal is horizontally or near-horizontally oriented, with each one pointing in the opposite direction of its paired crystal.

Like their ancestors, they have a quick growth rate and produce clusters of new buds at a rapid pace from its underground roots. This creates patches of signpost crystamboo seemingly overnight. The crystals easily break to strong winds and storms. However, this is not fatal, and they can regrow rather quickly. Since its crystals face different directions, they are not equally susceptible to damaging winds coming from one direction. The trunk itself is more resistant to sudden impact than the crystals. Since the signpost crystamboo does not support crystals at the top of the trunk, it doesn't need to as be as good at load-bearing as its ancestor.

The South Darwin Rocky population is smaller than the population in Javen Tropical Woodland, for there it is kept in check by grovecrystal kruggs, barkbacks, cragagons, and scrub barkbacks. In the Javen Tropical Woodland habitat, its only checks are scrub barkbacks and kellaces.

Author's Notes
Notes: Its species name should translate as "it leads astray", since signpost crystamboos would be confusing as actual signposts and would likely lead a traveler into an impassable thicket.