Foulbane

The foulbane split from the volcanbane and spread west to the Dixon Boreal and the South Dixon Alpine. With little competition and large areas to grow at, it has grown larger and is now very common and widespread. It has evolved a foul smell and taste that few herbivores dare to try and therefore it is protected mainly from the opportunist omnivores that are common in its new habitat that will rather eat something with a better taste. Under that foul crusting though it still hides a sugar-filled bulb that stores water and energy for the hard seasons. It will also shed its leaves in the winter and regrow them at spring. Before shedding at the end of fall they will turn dark red as the plant will first regather all the nutrients and nitrates from the leaves before losing them. It has very fast and useful regeneration and even if the bulb will be partly eaten if a small piece of bulb, often one covered with foul taste, will survive, the whole plant can sometimes grow back from it.