21 Casgel

Name: Casgel
Descendent of: Brisgel
Description: The fibrous mat that clings to the ground (and throughout the first fer millimetres of soil) binds the soil and gives it strength.
Their crinkled foliage tissue has a spongy internal structure. The skin of the plant provides most of the structure and strength and is rubbery and floppy, but keeps water inside.
The spore-bearing stalks grow taller than the rest of the plant. This is to catch more wind and so spores aure dispersed over a wider range.
When densely populated (detected by stress from competition and fibre mat intermingling) these organs form haploid spores. A second type of haploid spore, male, is produced that is smaller and lands on the trumpet surface of the female (most likely of the same plant, but often nearby plants too) and migrates to the female haploid spore, fertilizing it before it's cast.
Spores are cast dry on the wind, but if wet will be washed into the sea and sometimes still stand a chance of being washed up elsewhere.
Reproduction: Spores asexually most of the time, but sexually mixes during crowding (because proximity allows it). It also to a lesser degree reproduces by growth and fragmentation (clones).
Food: Photosynthesis
Ocean Locations: None Land Locations: 1 (Coast), 1 (River), 1 (Swamp)

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• 11 Brisgel

Genetic Descendants

• 42 Cassea