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Kaleida: white-leafed plant
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This is the first of several plant species I'm going to show you guys: the gennaibus plant. Its most notable detail is that it has white leaves.
The patches of plant we can see here are growing in iron-rich soil, hence the orange ground. The leaves are white to reflect the harsh sun, and the plant photosynthesises using its stems. The sporophytes - the large squash-shaped objects at the ends of its stems - make for bland, but nutritious eating, and are the size of small melons.
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Planned ret-cons: I feel like more can be done to really show these plants off to best effect, and I wonder how they'd look in limestone-rich (ie., white) soil. Plants can and do colour themselves for camouflage and it would make sense for them to have evolved white for that reason.
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Kaleida is a worldbuilding project without a storyline or individual characters. Most of my clients come to me with stories and characters and treat worldbuilding as an after-thought, so I'm doing the opposite and focusing solely on my worldbuilding. This species is a result of my research on how to create an alien ecosystem, which I wrote as a blog series. Read it here.
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Hmm... If the leaves are white to reflect the harsh sun - whilst the stems are utilized for photosynthesis... What is the point of the leaves?
Do they funnel water inwards? Do they provide anti-pathogenic properties? Do they store nutrients? Do they expel a large amount of waste - from processes of respiration when the sun is not available? Do the leaves provide nutrients or spaces for a symbiotic relationship with another organism?
Interesting concepts, but the leaves are an interesting subject to inquire.
Do they funnel water inwards? Do they provide anti-pathogenic properties? Do they store nutrients? Do they expel a large amount of waste - from processes of respiration when the sun is not available? Do the leaves provide nutrients or spaces for a symbiotic relationship with another organism?
Interesting concepts, but the leaves are an interesting subject to inquire.
It's been an age since I even thought about these plants! They like pine cones but green, so if you were to cut into one you wouldn't see all that much. I think you could theoretically eat them as they're mature when they're green - they never turn hard and woody. They'd be nutritious as they're designed to make the next generation, so there's that, but I imagine they'd be a tad bitter or overly savoury, or maybe tough!
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