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Kaleida: skirted freshwater reed
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This plant, the tanra reed, takes its name from the Arabic word for 'skirt' - tanwra. It refers to the fine leaves which form a skirt around the plant.
It is an aquatic plant with large sporophytes and very light, fine leaves that grow from a single node half-way down the stem. The plant grows until ths node reaches the exact height of the surface of the water that it's growing in, and then stops so that its leaves can float without being too deep under water to catch the sunshine or dry out without direct contact with the water.
These plants usually grow in clusters, and their leaves create a translucent, floating carpet that fauna use as shelter.
Tanra reeds grow in warmer climates.
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Art type: Doodle / sketch
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Subject: Alien aquatic plant
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Appears in: Kaleida
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Planned ret-cons: Not a ret-con, but these plants need proper art!
What is Kaleida?
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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These are super interesting -- I love water plants!
They're translucent - would that possibly make them not as protective as, say, some rocks? Since predators from above can still see the shadows -- unless, do these perhaps have further defenses against something like that? About how deep do they grow -- Like, are they mostly shallow growing plants?
They're translucent - would that possibly make them not as protective as, say, some rocks? Since predators from above can still see the shadows -- unless, do these perhaps have further defenses against something like that? About how deep do they grow -- Like, are they mostly shallow growing plants?
They are pretty tenuous! I was mainly thinking that a combination of ripples on water, dark animals swimming under the water against a dark pond bed, that sort of thing, would help. Partial camouflage is better than no camouflage at all - with glass frogs being fantastic proof (and yep, I mean mathematical proof rather than qualitative evidence: a study was done to show how effective their camouflage was.
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