Piling Carnofern

The piling carnofern replaced its ancestor in the Flisch-Krakow Alpine. After the gamma ray disaster these huge mountains were only inhabited by the surviving hibernating carnoferns that hibernated through that time. After a few years the whole mountain terrain was filled with these. Without any natural enemies the pilling carnofern evolved, twice in size and better adapted to its environment. First it lost its stickyball digesting ability as no stickyballs grow in these heights and almost all stickyballs were wiped out from Glicker after the anti-sticky plague spread. Tiny leaflets that grow in the outer side of the branch replaced the fibers that were once used to digest the stickyballs and grew from the inside. Now instead of growing and dieing in the winter leaving only the carnofern, when the winter comes all the nutrients are gathered into a new carnofern that grows from one of the berries that wasn’t seeded. The new carnofern later melts with the base one, eventually creating a tower of pilling carnoferns that can reach massive highest. One can know the age of the piling carnofern by the number of fusion rings on it. Because no fauna lived in the high mountains when it evolved the piling carnoferns use bouncing berries that can spread around the mountains. This means that they can now mainly be found on plateaus and valleys and never on mountain picks, except for a few that grow by asexual budding to slightly higher terrains.