Quaking Volleypom
| Quaking Volleypom | ||
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| (Pseudopinus tremuloides) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | Colddigger Other | |
| Week/Generation | 27/167 | |
| Habitat | Kosemen Temperate Woodland, Vivus Lowboreal, Vivus Highboreal, Central Kosemen Lowboreal, Kosemen Highboreal, East Kosemen Lowboreal | |
| Size | 15 m Tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Sessile | |
| Support | Cellulose, Lignin (Cell Walls) | |
| Diet | Photosynthesis | |
| Respiration | Passive (Tracheal system in leaves, Lenticels and air labyrinth throughout tissue) | |
| Thermoregulation | Heliothermy (Black Pigmentation) | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Hard Shelled Megaspores, Airborne Microspores | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Melanophyta Melanoanthae Obsidianophyllopsida Polymelanophyllales Corticihirsutaceae Pseudopinus Pseudopinus tremuloides | |
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The Quaking Volleypom split from its ancestor the Contorted Volleypom to spread more inland. It can be found forming fast-growing dense stands in Kosemen Temperate Woodland, Vivus Lowboreal, Vivus Highboreal, Central Kosemen Lowboreal, Kosemen Highboreal, and East Kosemen Lowboreal. Typically these trees have gnarled knobby thick trunks with thin branches growing off, commonly in clusters. These branches are fast-growing, bendy, easy to snap and easy to replace. The way the branches tend to clump cause the canopy of this tree to be sporadically dense and sparse depending on what section is observed. The summertime leaves are now larger and proportionally broader, with a more established and flexible stem piece that allows it to give way to breezes which results in a less hospitable environment for crawling fauna. As these leaves, black, white, plastic, and bare wave and flutter in wind it gives the tree a shimmering appearance from a distance. Winter leaves have redeveloped the volleypom fishbone structure to a degree, but with a twist to their growth resulting in a more 3-dimensional arrangement compared to the planar form taken by those grown from the twigs of Shaggy Volleypom.
The megasporangia have had some significant changes. They now only carry a small number of megaspores, 1-10 each, with said megaspores being dwarfed by their ancestors being a mere 3-5 millimeters across. The hollow toward the rear of the megasporangium is now a collapsed plate, or scale, and triangler in shape. This structure captures wind, breaking away from the tree when mature and spinning about as it catches air. This mobility can cast the carrying structure over a kilometer from the mother tree on a windy day, though more often they fall much closer. These scales are grown in repeating radial clumps stacked beneath on another along a twig, with layers numbering up to 15. As they mature the rattling action as they knock against one another in the wind aids in their release and dispersal. Microsporangia are fairly similar in appearance, function, and growth habit to their ancestors. The only difference is that they are more elongate and their small clusters grow in a curved form.