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{{Species
|name = Pinokes
|week = 27
|generation = 167
|creator = Disgustedorite
|image = Pinokes.png
|ancestor = Feroak
|habitat = [[Wallace]], [[Kosemen]]
|size = 1-16 meters tall
|diet = Photosynthesis
|thermoregulation = Ectotherm
|reproduction = Sexual (Flowers, Berries, Seeds)
|parent = Yuccapinaceae
|genus = Latabies
|species = ssp.
}}
'''Pinokes''' split from their ancestor and diversified into a myriad of shade-tolerant trees and shrubs with bitter tannin-filled needle leaves, primarily under pressure from [[Black Flora|black flora]] such as the [[Snowflake
The shift to a flatter, wider crown in pinokes compared to their ancestor serves to sprawl their photosynthesizing surface beneath taller obsidioaks in forests and shrublands. This would seem useless at first due to the shadows that black flora cast, but as midday arrives, air flow and luck makes some patches of the dark forests grow very hot, activating the snowflake obsidioaks' camoplasts. The taller trees' leaves now white, sunlight is able to filter down to the forest floor—or it would, if a sprawling pinoke isn't growing in that exact location to catch it all. In this way, pinokes are able to grow very large in the shadows which choke out most other non-obsidian flora of their size—and as the obsidioaks eventually die of disease or old age, pinokes are even able to take over many acres of forest and shrubland, as being seed plants allows them to escape the leaf litter barrier more often than most black flora can.
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