19 Greesket

Name: Greesket
Descendant of: Greefelt
Description: This fibrous tangle of vegetative strands (which host a nitrogen-fixing bacteria-like microbe) and widely branching tubes is less tightly matted than it's ancestor. The branching tubes are also thicker at their maximum and more rigid than their ancestor's were. They take up lifetime residence in flowing rivers, expanding their occupation of river space and building on top of older material. They slow the flow of rivers, only strong flash floods can break and shift them.
They provide a home for small river herbivores calle riverworms (animals as little as 10 mm diameter at their most narrowly squeezed), which seek protection from larger carnivores in the tangle. As a trade-off they clear away algae and other plant competition of the greesket which take advantage of the free nitrogen released by the bacterial symbiote.
Reproduction: It reproduces by growth and fragmentation (clones) but will often produce asexual spores from it's foliage strands in dry weather.
Food: Photosynthesis
Ocean Locations: None Land Locations: 2 (River)

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• 15 Greefelt