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{{Species
|name = Sicklysweet Piloroot
|week = 27
|generation = 167
|creator = OviraptorFan
|image = Sicklysweet Piloroot.png
|ancestor = Beach Piloroot
|habitat = [[Fermi Plains]], [[Fermi Steppe]], [[Fermi Subpolar Volcanic]], [[Fermi Prairie]], [[Fermi Bush]], [[Fermi Temperate Volcanic]]
|size = 2 meters wide, 60 centimeters tall
|diet = Photosynthesis, Detritivore; young only: Facultative Parasite ([[Fermiblades]])
|thermoregulation = Ectotherm
|reproduction = Sexual (Fruit with Seeds), Asexual (Detaching Roots)
|parent = Pilosotuberaceae
|genus = Lanatosiphon
|species = bacchanalis
|meaning = wooly siphon of Bacchus
}}
When some [[Beach Piloroot]]s started to grow inland, they found themselves in a highly competitive floral ecology, with [[Fermiblades]] being the dominant low-growing purple flora in the region. Being slower to grow, the Beach Piloroots found themselves overshadowed early on in their lives by these Valadanaceans, only getting by due to being able to subsist on bits of detritus like dead skin shed from fauna as well as getting energy from photosynthesis. In time, these populations of Beach Piloroot would develop adaptations to get past the competiton, eventually establishing themselves a firm roothold in the ecosystem while splitting off into a distinct species of their own right.
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