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Almaviva Plant | Alien (Other) | Sci-fi/Fantasy
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Here's one I've been waiting to show you all for a while, purely due to its looks. Once again, thanks to Taleea for lending me her fabulous talent!
These plants create a succulent leaf with a geometric shape and straight lines, giving them a gem-like look. Even the name - "almaviva" - means "living gem" as it comes from the Arabic word for 'diamond' - almas - and the Latin word for 'alive' - vivus.
They evolved in the way they did to shower the ground with blue-tinted light. This has two effects: one, it benefits other, short plants as the blue light is rich in energy and allows them to grow bushier. The other effect is to make any animal with red scales, skin, or fur show up as black, as red objects cannot reflect blue light back and therefore appear black. Looking black makes these animals conspicuous, as true black is often quite striking in nature. This disincentivises these animals from nibbling at the almaviva, or encourages predators to catch the offendig nibbler or chase it away. Red is quite common in small animals that eat plants as they retain the carotinoids present in other plants, so this mechanism is surprisingly reliable for the almaviva.
This is sci-fi/science fiction, not fantasy, but Furaffinity lacks a drop-down option for that.
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Art type: Colour drawing
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Subject: Alien plant
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Appears in: Kaleida
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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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Thank you! I'm in two minds about whether or not to make them edible because I've got a similar plant that is, and I'm reluctant to make every plant in Kaleida's ecosystem something you can just go ahead and eat. But I do like weaving each plant into the culture, give it uses to the mesolithics, or at least give them some sort of context.
I ended up leaving the kosmina alone so that it'd just be a pretty plant - since they are very pretty, as you say! Here's the plant I used as their inspiration: a gem-like succulent.
I ended up leaving the kosmina alone so that it'd just be a pretty plant - since they are very pretty, as you say! Here's the plant I used as their inspiration: a gem-like succulent.
Oh yum, leaves that taste like Jolly Ranchers! I can't deny it's tempting! As for filtering light, they would certainly catch the light. They'd create a blueish (or yellowish) tinted light on anything beneath them so that could make for a unique micro-habitat.
In fact, that's what I think I'll do with these! Blue light can be used to make plants grow bushier so it would make sense for any shorter plant to take care of any almaviva neighbours. Hmm, let me think on the potential of that!
Any animals with red fur or scales would look black under blue-tinted light too, so they'd want to keep away, especially from bigger patches of this plant. I wonder if the almaviva evolved to keep something red away from its roots?
In fact, that's what I think I'll do with these! Blue light can be used to make plants grow bushier so it would make sense for any shorter plant to take care of any almaviva neighbours. Hmm, let me think on the potential of that!
Any animals with red fur or scales would look black under blue-tinted light too, so they'd want to keep away, especially from bigger patches of this plant. I wonder if the almaviva evolved to keep something red away from its roots?
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