Irontangle

The irontangle split from its ancestor and inhabited the land. Because water is obligatory for its survival it has evolved in a new niche, vandriswoop puddles. This has happened when ironroot cellballs popped and released the young to the shore there some have reached the watery puddles the vandriswoop creates. In them they have flourished and adapted to their new environment. They grow entangled around the root bulb of their hosts, drain their sugary waters, and co-exist with them. They are considered parasitic though they rarely damage the host to the point of serious danger or death. In order to spread and reproduce their cellballs evolved to become light and sticky attaching to the hosts’ wind-spread detaching cells and spreading with them to the new plants. Therefore almost 90% of all vandriswoops hold an irontangle or two around them. The only advantage these relations give to the host is keeping it guarded from some herbivores that fail to release it from the ground because of the heavy weight of the irontangle.