Glass Tower

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Glass Tower
(Aeustuslabo calvusfructus)
Main image of Glass Tower
Species is extinct.
22/?, unknown cause
Information
CreatorClarke Other
Week/Generation21/137
HabitatDrake Temperate Rainforest, Drake Taiga, Slarti River
Size32 cm Tall
Primary MobilitySessile
SupportUnknown
DietPhotosynthesis, Filter-Feeder (Cryodome Hydroutine)
RespirationUnknown
ThermoregulationEctotherm
ReproductionSexual, Two Sexes, Fruit, Airborne Seeds
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Kyanozoa
Hyalophyta
Hyaloangia
Scaphiumestales
Aeustuslabaceae
Aeustuslabo
Aeustuslabo calvusfructus
Ancestor:Descendants:

The glass tower split from its ancestor, the box cryobowl. To absorb more light as well as to culture more hydroutine, the glass tower is now twice as tall. Instead of small fruits forming on top of the male organism, the entire top half of the organism is exposed, and full of tiny seeds.

It has developed a symbioses with another organism, the tower diveskunik, as a polinator. The diveskunik will eat part of the exposed fleshy "fruit", injesting the small, glassy seeds. When it moves to a new glass tower, it will reguritate the seeds as well as the waste products from the fruit. The glass towers that grow from these seeds will all be the female, bowl-like sex. These take in new seeds reguritated by the diveskunik, absorb their genetic material, and then grow microscopic seeds on its rim, which will blow away in the wind and grow more males.

During wet, warm seasons the glass tower will inject sugars into its central chamber to stimulate hydroutine growth, and feed on the hydroutine during the tougher seasons. The slowly rotating water that occupies much of its body will help it get rid of excess heat in the day, and use it at night when it is colder. The female cryobowls retain their ancestor's shape, but are smaller growing to a maximum of fifteen centimeters wide.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
  • Slarti Glasstower (family Aeustuslabaceae)
  • Maineiac Glasstower (order Scaphiumestales)
  • Glasscanon (class Hyaloangia)