Saltegodendron

The saltegodendron replaced its ancestor the terradendron and spread to the north to the Ramul Temperate Beach. It has evolved many new adaptations to survive better in its terrestrial salty biome. It has evolved small flagella that dig into the beach sands and give it both a better support in the ground and absorb more water from the soil. These flagella are connected to the stalk by a huge membrane that keeps the salt concentration controlled. The stalk itself has a powerful cell wall which is fortified by a cytoskeleton which helps it rise high. It has also evolved a new way to cope with the high levels of salt. It keeps a lot of K+ ions inside it to repel the insertion of Na+ and keep the salt levels low. Because the salt doesn’t enter its cell the soil near the saltegodendron is very salty, which makes it deadly to other cells that compete with it or feed on it and give a great protection against them. It still has a massive vacuole like its ancestor. Their huge forests can sometimes even be seen with naked eye as greenish patches in the sand that shine because of the nearby salt.