Obsiditree

The obsiditree has replaced it's ancestor. It has grown to be twice the size of it's ancestor, and has spread out further among the Barlowe-Dixon Continent, where it now inhabits many boreal regions, and can even be found on the beach. It's large, palm-like leaves have become complex, defined as being pinnate with branching veins, in order to increase their CO2 output, and to absorb more water. As a result, heterotrophs will get much more food and nutrition from these leaves, and fallen leaves now litter the forest floor. Also it's roots can grow even deeper into the soil for nutrients. Like it's ancestor, it grows relatively close to other trees, and cover the landscape with forest. It also releases cylindrical spores into the atmosphere like it's ancestor, but do not literally turn the sky orange with their pollen, more rather making an orange haze just above the canopy. They grow rather quickly, and most obsiditrees live around 40 years before crashing into the forest floor.