Shellflora

The shellflora split from its ancestor, the jeluki boneflora. It has left Jeluki Salt Swamp and now lives in the intertidal zone of the northern tropical beaches of Darwin. During high tide the live much like their ancestor, but during low tide they have become more adapted to land. Like its ancestor it must use the seawater of high tide to absorb calcium through calcification. This gives it a hard exoskeleton trunk. The red photosynthetic part has grown huge to help absorb as much light as it can and its trunk have shortened to support it. At the end of the shell are spores which are released in the water during high tide. When they die they leave shell-like skeletons much like Earth's seashells.