Hanging Leafruit

The hanging leafruit split from its ancestor in the Krakow Temperate Forest. Due to natural pressures and the spread of a mutation some xidhorchias lost the poison solely in their fruits. As the noggers’ food sources became very limited many hungry desperate noggers started nibbling on the xidhorchia’s dry fruits destroying their mechanism and stopping them from reproducing. Therefore a group of xidhorchias that by mutation like their ancestors grew fleshier fruits and strived as their seeds were spread by the noggers after they digested them. These evolved into the hanging leafruits.

The hanging leafruit is much taller than its ancestor. It is similar to it in many ways still sustaining it reproduction system of folding drying leaf exploding fruits that grow in its upper leafs. On its lower leafs however it evolved a new form of reproduction. Its leafs grow all year tiny flowers from the upper side, while on their lower sides they also grow hanging fleshy fruits to attract the noggers. They still grow rather slowly, winter by winter.