Slarti Glasstower

The slarti glasstower split from its ancestor. While many glass towers lived in the northern part of slarti river, past drake temperate rainforest they had difficulty surviving because of the extreme salinity of the soil. The glass towers that adapted to the salty soils became known as the slarti glasstower. They grow around rivers, lakes, and pools of brine, filtering the salt out of the water before using it in photosynthesis, or to farm cryodome hydroutine in its water-filled interior. It also uses this water as a heat sink, absorbing the excess heat produced by its glassy shell during the day, and to warm it during the cool desert nights.

Its symbiosis has shifted from the tower diveskimo to another species of swarmer, the slarti cloudswarmer. Their fruit now resembles that of its ancestor, the fruiting cryobowl, being powdery with tiny,seeds spread throughout. If the cloudswarmer regurgitates the seed near the female glasstowers, which resemble the fruiting cryobowl, the female glasstower will combine the genetic material in the seeds with its own, and release microscopic seeds from its rim that blow away in the wind. If the seed does not land in a female glasstower, though, it will mature into a female glasstower.