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|size = 250 Centimeters

|support = Chitin Plates, Turgor in Red Tissue

|locomotion = Sessile

|diet = Photosynthesis, Detritivore

|respiration = Passive (Lenticels)

|thermoregulation = Ectotherm

|reproduction = Sexual, Spores, Fruiting Body, Asexual Root Budding

|~~domain~~ = ~~Eukaryota~~

|parent = Crystallomuriaceae

|kingdom = Binucleozoa

|subkingdom = Crystallozoa

|phylum=Cavacrystalita

|class = Coelocrystalla

|order = Coelocrystallales

|family = Crystallomuriaceae

|genus = Crystallomuria

|species = medicus

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==Phototropism and Movement==

Being a member of the hollow crystal lineage it bears a distinct air filled chamber in ~~it's~~ center. The immediate tissue surrounding this hollow chamber has taken up a more mobile role. Through the act of osmosis portions of the chamber wall expand to deform it's shape, while networks of thin tendon-like strips of tissue shrink between the surface of the doctor pickle and the hollow chamber, so as to morph the shelled surface into a greater area for potential photosynthesis. This movement is controlled by each plate providing chemical signaling when struck by light, the intensity of the chemical signal corresponds in kind with the intensity of the light. Because of this movement the surface of this organism slowly ripples throughout the day, then settles into a more cylindrical shape at night. If damaged the surface can more rapidly contract from the point of contact, this allows the mace horn to be aimed slightly more at the source of danger.

Being a member of the hollow crystal lineage it bears a distinct air filled chamber in its center. The immediate tissue surrounding this hollow chamber has taken up a more mobile role. Through the act of osmosis portions of the chamber wall expand to deform it's shape, while networks of thin tendon-like strips of tissue shrink between the surface of the doctor pickle and the hollow chamber, so as to morph the shelled surface into a greater area for potential photosynthesis. This movement is controlled by each plate providing chemical signaling when struck by light, the intensity of the chemical signal corresponds in kind with the intensity of the light. Because of this movement the surface of this organism slowly ripples throughout the day, then settles into a more cylindrical shape at night. If damaged the surface can more rapidly contract from the point of contact, this allows the mace horn to be aimed slightly more at the source of danger.

==Internal Movement of Water and Nutrients==

[[File:Doctor Pickle Tissues.jpeg|thumb|'''F1.''' Close up of the layering of permeable and impermeable tissues; '''F2.''' Close up of osmotic bulbs and passage polyps; '''F3.''' Close up of nitrogen fixing microbial colony layers.]]

Like its cellulosebane crystal ancestor, the internal soft tissue of doctor pickle is made up of sheets of tissue distinguished by an impermeable layer between them and joined ~~together~~ by masses of structures called osmotic bulbs and passage polyps that act as its means of water and nutrients transport. Both of these structures find their developmental origin in the impermeable layer cells. From there they push their way into both adjacent sheets of red tissue and differentiate into the more complex mature organs.

Like its cellulosebane crystal ancestor, the internal soft tissue of doctor pickle is made up of sheets of tissue distinguished by an impermeable layer between them and joined by masses of structures called osmotic bulbs and passage polyps that act as its means of water and nutrients transport. Both of these structures find their developmental origin in the impermeable layer cells. From there they push their way into both adjacent sheets of red tissue and differentiate into the more complex mature organs.

The osmotic bulb acts like an osmotic pump, it is an organ comprised of three distinct pieces; the outlet manifold, the reservoir sac, and the squeeze tissue.

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==Outer Plates of Green Tissue==

The green plates that cover the surface of the crystal are much stouter than many of its relatives and ancestors, this is to allow greater shifting to capture sunlight with the movement of its surface. This photosynthetic tissue is, like with all true crystals, actually an obligate symbiont with a distinct genome and body structure of its own. Compared to ~~it's~~ red tissue counterpart the green tissue has become relatively simplified, relying on much of its nutrient transport and care to be the responsibility of its partner.

The green plates that cover the surface of the crystal are much stouter than many of its relatives and ancestors, this is to allow greater shifting to capture sunlight with the movement of its surface. This photosynthetic tissue is, like with all true crystals, actually an obligate symbiont with a distinct genome and body structure of its own. Compared to its red tissue counterpart the green tissue has become relatively simplified, relying on much of its nutrient transport and care to be the responsibility of its partner.

The body of the green tissue is discontinuous, the plates are not directly fused but rather even use the red tissue for communicating amongst itself. The structure of a single plate is not homogenous. The innermost sections are wafer thin sheets, infiltrated by red tissue, where nutrient exchange occurs between the two tissues. Gas exchange occurs here for the green tissue, one of the few things the plate does not directly rely on the red tissue for, entering pores in the green wafers that become tubes that feed out into the rest of the plate.Traveling outward these sheets become thicker, the red tissue becoming less pronounce, the cell walls in this region are particularly thick and dense to act as the main supporting structure of the plate. In many crystals this structure provides a significant portion of the body's support as the plates span the length of the entire organism above ground, However in Doctor Pickle its support is less important. More of the structural support is provided by firm red tissues and turgor playing off one another. The outer layer of the green plate is devoid of red tissue, and packed tightly with photosynthetic cells, under a layer of thickly walled protective epidermal cells.

The body of the green tissue is discontinuous, the plates are not directly fused but rather even use the red tissue for communicating amongst itself. The structure of a single plate is not homogenous. The innermost sections are wafer thin sheets, infiltrated by red tissue, where nutrient exchange occurs between the two tissues. Gas exchange occurs here for the green tissue, one of the few things the plate does not directly rely on the red tissue for, entering pores in the green wafers that become tubes that feed out into the rest of the plate.Traveling outward these sheets become thicker, the red tissue becoming less pronounce, the cell walls in this region are particularly thick and dense to act as the main supporting structure of the plate. In many crystals this structure provides a significant portion of the body's support as the plates span the length of the entire organism above ground, However, in Doctor Pickle its support is less important. More of the structural support is provided by firm red tissues and turgor playing off one another. The outer layer of the green plate is devoid of red tissue, and packed tightly with photosynthetic cells, under a layer of thickly walled protective epidermal cells.

==Roots==

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[[File:Doctor Pickle Lifecycle.jpg|thumb|Simplified depiction of the reproductive cycle.]]

The method of reproduction for doctor pickle is comparable to other land based crystals, which is itself hardly departed from ~~it's~~ aquatic ancestry.

The method of reproduction for doctor pickle is comparable to other land based crystals, which is itself hardly departed from its aquatic ancestry.

Spores are initially released from the fruiting body by various means. These spores are either red tissue haploid spores, or green tissue haploid spores. Due to the method in which the doctor pickle crystal produces these spores the green spores number far less and act as a population bottleneck. These initial haploid spores drift about in their environments through the air until they are able to land in a moist portion of soil, or a puddle of some nature. In their new environment they drift about until they come in contact with a haploid spore of their same tissue type originating from a different crystal, their difference in origin is determined by a surface compound essentially creating various mating types. The resulting cell is now considered a dikaryotic protospore, very reminiscent of their [[binucleid]] ancestors.

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 |size             = 250 Centimeters
 |support          = Chitin Plates, Turgor in Red Tissue
+|locomotion = Sessile
 |diet             = Photosynthesis, Detritivore
 |respiration      = Passive (Lenticels)
 |thermoregulation = Ectotherm
 |reproduction     = Sexual, Spores, Fruiting Body, Asexual Root Budding
-|domain      = Eukaryota
+|parent      = Crystallomuriaceae
-|kingdom     = Binucleozoa
-|subkingdom      = Crystallozoa
-|phylum=Cavacrystalita
-|class       = Coelocrystalla
-|order       = Coelocrystallales
-|family      = Crystallomuriaceae
 |genus            = Crystallomuria
 |species          = medicus
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 ==Phototropism and Movement==
-Being a member of the hollow crystal lineage it bears a distinct air filled chamber in it's center. The immediate tissue surrounding this hollow chamber has taken up a more mobile role. Through the act of osmosis portions of the chamber wall expand to deform it's shape, while networks of thin tendon-like strips of tissue shrink between the surface of the doctor pickle and the hollow chamber, so as to morph the shelled surface into a greater area for potential photosynthesis. This movement is controlled by each plate providing chemical signaling when struck by light, the intensity of the chemical signal corresponds in kind with the intensity of the light. Because of this movement the surface of this organism slowly ripples throughout the day, then settles into a more cylindrical shape at night. If damaged the surface can more rapidly contract from the point of contact, this allows the mace horn to be aimed slightly more at the source of danger.
+Being a member of the hollow crystal lineage it bears a distinct air filled chamber in its center. The immediate tissue surrounding this hollow chamber has taken up a more mobile role. Through the act of osmosis portions of the chamber wall expand to deform it's shape, while networks of thin tendon-like strips of tissue shrink between the surface of the doctor pickle and the hollow chamber, so as to morph the shelled surface into a greater area for potential photosynthesis. This movement is controlled by each plate providing chemical signaling when struck by light, the intensity of the chemical signal corresponds in kind with the intensity of the light. Because of this movement the surface of this organism slowly ripples throughout the day, then settles into a more cylindrical shape at night. If damaged the surface can more rapidly contract from the point of contact, this allows the mace horn to be aimed slightly more at the source of danger.
 ==Internal Movement of Water and Nutrients==
 [[File:Doctor Pickle Tissues.jpeg|thumb|'''F1.''' Close up of the layering of permeable and impermeable tissues; '''F2.''' Close up of osmotic bulbs and passage polyps; '''F3.''' Close up of nitrogen fixing microbial colony layers.]]
-Like its cellulosebane crystal ancestor, the internal soft tissue of doctor pickle is made up of sheets of tissue distinguished by an impermeable layer between them and joined together by masses of structures called osmotic bulbs and passage polyps that act as its means of water and nutrients transport. Both of these structures find their developmental origin in the impermeable layer cells. From there they push their way into both adjacent sheets of red tissue and differentiate into the more complex mature organs.
+Like its cellulosebane crystal ancestor, the internal soft tissue of doctor pickle is made up of sheets of tissue distinguished by an impermeable layer between them and joined by masses of structures called osmotic bulbs and passage polyps that act as its means of water and nutrients transport. Both of these structures find their developmental origin in the impermeable layer cells. From there they push their way into both adjacent sheets of red tissue and differentiate into the more complex mature organs.
 The osmotic bulb acts like an osmotic pump, it is an organ comprised of three distinct pieces; the outlet manifold, the reservoir sac, and the squeeze tissue.
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 ==Outer Plates of Green Tissue==
-The green plates that cover the surface of the crystal are much stouter than many of its relatives and ancestors, this is to allow greater shifting to capture sunlight with the movement of its surface. This photosynthetic tissue is, like with all true crystals, actually an obligate symbiont with a distinct genome and body structure of its own. Compared to it's red tissue counterpart the green tissue has become relatively simplified, relying on much of its nutrient transport and care to be the responsibility of its partner.
+The green plates that cover the surface of the crystal are much stouter than many of its relatives and ancestors, this is to allow greater shifting to capture sunlight with the movement of its surface. This photosynthetic tissue is, like with all true crystals, actually an obligate symbiont with a distinct genome and body structure of its own. Compared to its red tissue counterpart the green tissue has become relatively simplified, relying on much of its nutrient transport and care to be the responsibility of its partner.
-The body of the green tissue is discontinuous, the plates are not directly fused but rather even use the red tissue for communicating amongst itself. The structure of a single plate is not homogenous. The innermost sections are wafer thin sheets, infiltrated by red tissue, where nutrient exchange occurs between the two tissues. Gas exchange occurs here for the green tissue, one of the few things the plate does not directly rely on the red tissue for, entering pores in the green wafers that become tubes that feed out into the rest of the plate.Traveling outward these sheets become thicker, the red tissue becoming less pronounce, the cell walls in this region are particularly thick and dense to act as the main supporting structure of the plate. In many crystals this structure provides a significant portion of the body's support as the plates span the length of the entire organism above ground, However in Doctor Pickle its support is less important. More of the structural support is provided by firm red tissues and turgor playing off one another. The outer layer of the green plate is devoid of red tissue, and packed tightly with photosynthetic cells, under a layer of thickly walled protective epidermal cells.
+The body of the green tissue is discontinuous, the plates are not directly fused but rather even use the red tissue for communicating amongst itself. The structure of a single plate is not homogenous. The innermost sections are wafer thin sheets, infiltrated by red tissue, where nutrient exchange occurs between the two tissues. Gas exchange occurs here for the green tissue, one of the few things the plate does not directly rely on the red tissue for, entering pores in the green wafers that become tubes that feed out into the rest of the plate.Traveling outward these sheets become thicker, the red tissue becoming less pronounce, the cell walls in this region are particularly thick and dense to act as the main supporting structure of the plate. In many crystals this structure provides a significant portion of the body's support as the plates span the length of the entire organism above ground, However, in Doctor Pickle its support is less important. More of the structural support is provided by firm red tissues and turgor playing off one another. The outer layer of the green plate is devoid of red tissue, and packed tightly with photosynthetic cells, under a layer of thickly walled protective epidermal cells.
 ==Roots==
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 [[File:Doctor Pickle Lifecycle.jpg|thumb|Simplified depiction of the reproductive cycle.]]
-The method of reproduction for doctor pickle is comparable to other land based crystals, which is itself hardly departed from it's aquatic ancestry.
+The method of reproduction for doctor pickle is comparable to other land based crystals, which is itself hardly departed from its aquatic ancestry.
 Spores are initially released from the fruiting body by various means. These spores are either red tissue haploid spores, or green tissue haploid spores. Due to the method in which the doctor pickle crystal produces these spores the green spores number far less and act as a population bottleneck. These initial haploid spores drift about in their environments through the air until they are able to land in a moist portion of soil, or a puddle of some nature. In their new environment they drift about until they come in contact with a haploid spore of their same tissue type originating from a different crystal, their difference in origin is determined by a surface compound essentially creating various mating types. The resulting cell is now considered a dikaryotic protospore, very reminiscent of their [[binucleid]] ancestors.