Trunkpuff
| Trunkpuff | ||
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| (Bambomycus stipes) | ||
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| 19/125, ice comet impact event | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | NinthMusketeer Other | |
| Week/Generation | 17/112 | |
| Habitat | Yokto Temperate Forest, Huggs-Yokto Savanna | |
| Size | 6 m tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Sessile | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Photosynthesis | |
| Respiration | Unknown | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual (two sexes), Spores | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Melanophyta Melanoanthae Xylomycodendropsida Bambomycales Bambomycaceae Bambomycus Bambomycus stipes | |
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Evolving from a version of the multipuff that failed to produce the normal waxy substance, the trunkpuff split from its ancestor. In order to compensate for its cap being eaten, it now develops three caps through its lifetime, each one progressively larger and farther up the main trunk. The trunk itself is now composed of mostly dead, but hollow cells that water and nutrients can still be moved through. Since these cells do not need to be supplied with nutrients themselves, the trunkpuff can grow faster and needs less nutrients to support its size, but still has gained the ability to photosynthesize with portions of its trunk for extra nutrients.
The trunkpuff usually grows to full height over three years, developing one cap each year then growing its spore puffs on the fourth year. It will then continually short out spores until it is eaten away by fauna and dies, usually after two to five years. Although it can grow more quickly, it cannot extend the length of its trunk except at the very top, so its size is limited because it cannot gain height after developing its spore puffs, causing it to adapt to point them more sideways rather then up, in order to get the spores to stick to fauna, since it is out-competed for height by the seedpuff. However, it has been able to inhabit the Huggs-Yokto Savanna because it uses less water to sustain itself.
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