Hanging Leafruit
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| Hanging Leafruit | ||
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| (Frugileavus pensilis) | ||
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| 19/125, Ice Comet Impact Event | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | BioCat Other | |
| Week/Generation | 16/108 | |
| Habitat | Krakow Temperate Forest | |
| Size | 1 m Tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Sessile | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Photosynthesis | |
| Respiration | Passive (Stomata) | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual (Edible fruits, Dry seed-spreading fruits, minuscule flowers) | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Division Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Phoenoplastida Phoenophyta (info) Toxicophyta Toxicofloropsida Toxicoflorales Xidhinaceae Frugileavus Frugileavus pensilis | |
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The hanging leafruit split from its ancestor in the Krakow Temperate Forest. Due to natural pressures and the spread of a mutation some xidhorchias lost the poison solely in their fruits. As the noghogs' food sources became very limited many hungry desperate noghogs started nibbling on the xidhorchia's dry fruits destroying their mechanism and stopping them from reproducing. Therefore, a group of xidhorchias that by mutation like their ancestors grew fleshier fruits and strived as their seeds were spread by the noghogs after they digested them. These evolved into the hanging leafruits.
The hanging leafruit is much taller than its ancestor. It is similar to it in many ways still sustaining it reproduction system of folding drying leaf exploding fruits that grow in its upper leafs. On its lower leafs however it evolved a new form of reproduction. Its leafs grow all year tiny flowers from the upper side, while on their lower sides they also grow hanging fleshy fruits to attract the noghogs. They still grow rather slowly, winter by winter.
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