Size: Medium

Description: Boom blooms are plants with a short stubby stalk and a bulbous glowing sac held together by tendrils. Their bark is usually dark in color, depending on their environment, but are most commonly found as a brown, black, or dark red. Their sac glows depending on its contents, but most commonly orange, green, or light blue.

Habitat: Boom blooms can be found un subterranean environments, often close to volcanic activity. However they can also be found in quite frigid or toxic caves as well. While they flourish in fertile or mineral-rich soil and rock, they discourage the growth of other plant life, so they are often the only plant species in the area. They are equally suited to growing on walls and ceilings as well as the ground.

Biology: These plants are resistant to extreme conditions including acid, heat, and cold. They drawn minerals and other nutrients from their soil to grow a sac that consists of a mixture of their resilient seeds and an explosive or caustic pressurized liquid. This mixture and its properties varies widely depending on available minerals and environment. It can be a superheated liquid, flash-freezing gas, charged plasma, or caustic solution.

Behavior: As they build pressure, boom blooms will eventually explode, coating their surroundings with hazardous liquid which kills competing plant life and loosens the soil for their seeds to take root. Since they often crown in clusters, this explosion may often start a chain reaction in other nearby boom blooms, resulting events where entire cave systems can become abruptly unstable and hazardous. Similarly, boom blooms can also be triggered by loud noises, physical contact, or weapons fire.

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Description: A tuberous plant where the entirety of its organic anatomy remains beneath the surface. It grows a crystalline trunk, branches, and leaves using absorbed soil minerals, which reflects light down into its root structure, where photosynthesis takes place.

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Size: Colossal

Description: These enormous plants are more commonly called Lattice Vines. They gradually creep along the ground and up other structures such as cliffs, mountains, buildings, or even larger plants. Their vines frequently will merge with each other. When they reach ample sunlight, they will sprout leaves. Lattice Vines can reach 50 meters in diameter, but when combined with naturalistic engineering can grow much larger.

Habitat: Lattice Vines thrive in jungles with wet soil, large objects to climb, and lots of sunlight. However, they have also been found in canyons, wetlands, and even some alpine regions.

Biology: The vines grow gradually over time upward and towared the strongest source of sunlight. Capillary action carries moisture and nutrients from the soil upward toward new growth. Over time, lower regions of vines will die, however the natural ducts that carry moisture continue to function. Dead vine wood becomes strong and flexible, and has been used as construction material, but engineers working with lattice vines prefer to carve structures directly into them.

Behavior: Since the vines are constantly growing towards a source of sunlight, they will also grow indirectly around obstacles. Engineers use this principle to introduce obstacles or reinforcement that will redirect the vines into intentional patterns. This allows lattice vines to be fashioned into collosal buildings such as landing pads, residential apartments, observation towers, or road networks.

Size: Large

Description: Foulaster are carnivorous plants that dig a shaft into the ground, filling it with a cavernous digestive sack. At the surface, there is a dilating sphincter ringed with small hooked tentacles. At a glance, it will appear as a slightly convex dip in the surrounding ground.

Habitat: Foulasters thrive in most environments habited by unsuspecting prey that might fall into its trap. Due to its ability to disguise its surface with nearby soil, they are successful in a variety of biomes including icy wasteland, jungle floor, wetlands, grasslands, and desert. However, they are rarely found on planets with low gravity where prey is more likely to be able to climb out.

Biology: While foulasters get most of its energy and nutrients from digested creatures, it does utilize solar energy absorbed through the surface of its sphincter. However, the more camouflaged it is, the less light will reach it and vice versa. Its digestive sack, in addition to the acid that dissolves its victims and lubricates the walls, is also filled with a gas that will cause weakness, disorientation, and eventually unconsciousness.

Behavior: After taking root and gradually excavating its shaft, a foulaster will use its hooked tentacles to break down surface soil and scatter it over its sphincter to camouflage it. During its early life, they prey on small animals and insects, gradually growing in depth and width until it can devour larger creatures. While the slippery sphincter trap is usually sufficient to cause an unsuspecting victim to slide down into the digestive sack below where, if deep enough, may break their limbs and begin to succumb. However, creatures that recognize the danger must contend with the hooked tentacles that will curl upward to prevent escape. A foulaster will reaply its camouflage between feeding. As they grow old and large, foulasters find it harder and harder to disguise themselves and will frequently perish, eventually decomposing and leaving behind their distinctive shaft in the earth. However, some individuals will keep these creatures alive by feeding them regularly with large animals. A number of criminal organizations have even used them as a means of execution.

Type: Plant

Size: Large

Description: Trees with thick and crooked green trunks and large dense branches with deep purple leaves. Luddonut forests grow with trunks packed tightly close to each other, creating areas that are difficult to navigate and where little light can penetrate the canopy.

Habitat: Luddonuts grow most commonly on mineral-rich soil, but nearly always over deposits of glodium.

Biology: Their wood and leaves contain a high-quantity of metals absorbed from their soil, and consequently make it difficult to use sensor and communication technology inside a luddonut forest, or even close to isolated luddonut trees. In addition, the metal content also makes their trunks very strong, brittle, and difficult to cut or damage. Their dense canopy structure is designed to block out light from hitting their roots which engage in a different form of photosynthesis, so luddonut forests are very dark and difficult to scan from orbit. Their roots spread deep and wide to maximize exposure to subterranean glodium radiation which it uses in photosynthesis.

Behavior: Because its trunk and root structure is damaged by radiation not sourced from subterranean glodium, it has a number of defensive behaviors to minimize it. The first is its dense tree line. Luddonut forests only grow up to a certain distance from its radiation source, so there is a very clear boundary of dead petrified luddonut trees that create a natural palisade that reflects radiation. The second are adaptive leaves that will gradually shift to refract radiation coming from beneath its branches, causing further disruption to technology. Finally, its fruit for which it's named are heavy rocklike seeds that if disturbed will emit an electromagnetic pulse which helps to ionize soil where it takes root, while eliminating unwanted sources of radiation. Finally, thicker and older forests will continue to refract old radio signals, causing communications devices to receive ghostly echoed messages long after their transmission.

Type: Plant

Size: Large

Description: Squat fern-like plats during their passive stage, spider-like carnivores during their migratory stage

Habitat: Planets with long rotations or intermittent sunlight

Biology: Photjui are hybrid plant animals with both photosynthetic plant cells and digestive animal cells that become active or inactive depending on the availability of sunlight.

Behavior: During daylight, the photjui takes root in soil where it utilizes photosynthesis. If it does not receive sunlight within a certain lenght of time it will convert itself into its animal state, uprooting itself and using its leg appendages to crawl along the surface. Smaller animals that pass beneath the slow-moving photjui will be devoured in a dorsal mouth and gradually digested to fuel the migration. Once it discovers sunlight that lasts for a certain lengthe of time, it will convert back to its plant state.

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Description: Resembling short conniferous plants, they have long thin green needles and thick reddish branches. Shivering Pines will sway and twist slightly regardless of the presence of wind.

Habitat: Shivering pines tend to be found in temperate or cold climates where their deep roots can access moisture and nutrients even in hard and frozen soil. They tend to grow at least several meters apart.

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Behavior: Shivering pines store considerable energy in their branches and will burst into a blur of movement as they shake their branches. This serves a number of purposes, the first is to remove accumulation of snow, dirt, or other debris that will block the needles from accessing sunlight. The second is to ward off herbivores by feigning aggression and hurling sharp needles. And finally, it helps throw its seeds a considerable distance to help propagate.

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Description: Propellor-shaped plants that build up a kinetic torque energy in the stalks of their flowers.

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Size: Colossal

Description: Yiurta are marine plant life that grows on the bed of oceans and lakes. It appears as a trunk up to 10 meters, however it can grow several kilometers tall until it breaches the surface of water where it grows a large flat surface to aid in photosynthesis.

Habitat: Yiurta grow in mineral rich waters, however they require significant depth of at least half-kilometer of liquid from the waterbed. The water must also have significant currents.

Biology: Yiurta subsist primarily on nutrients it absorbs from the water it grows in. Once it breaches the surface, it is capable of photosynthesis to supplement its growth. Its flat mushroom-like surface growth is particularly strong, and has been used as improvised landing platforms and settlements. Unfortunately for wildlife, it is far too poisonous to be edible, and pieces of the Yiurta that fall off create toxic waters beneath it that discourage smaller organisms from hiding there. Additionally, the shade it creates prevents most other marine plantlife from growing.

Behavior: The Yiurta procreates by dropping dense seeds into the water from the underside of its surface growth. These are carried a short distance by currents before it hits the floor. Organisms find the top of its surface structure a convenient home safe above the water, however if too much of its surface area is covered, it begins to grow poisoned barbs.

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