25 Squilspill

Name: Squilspill Descendant of: Squilgi Description: Squilspill is a plant that grows relatively intelligently compared to other blalgi descendants, forming a branching pattern across the ground that becomes more reinforced along paths with better lighting conditions and nutrients, and weak paths will atrophy. The darker outer tissue of a lobe is more for anchorage and grows into cracks and soil. The lighter central tissue of the lobe has better water transport and retention capablilities. When dessicated it appears only as a slightly lighter coloured strip but when it absorbs water it expands full of the water, making lighter shades of pigment visible. It can remain dessicated for years. just add water - they begin to expand and turn live and squidgy in moments, all from seeming like a dead flake before. Fragments that fall apart when dry can reanimate into separate and independent organisms. Overall these plants are slow-growing, taking years to grow just a few metres across the ground, but have high longevity and hardiness. They contribute to soil formation in the few relatively wet areas of the region such as rivers and edging onto other wetter regions, and contribute marginally towards suspended organic dust in drier, windy areas. They in their flexible, elastic skin have a netted fibre pattern under the microscope. It can stretch but still adds reinforcement. The skin is watertight and waxy such that parasitic microbes seekng water can only enter pores to infest the plant What prevents them from moving North out of the drier areas of region 3 is competition from plants better suited to wetter, more humid conditions. Reproduction: It reproduces by growth and fragmentation and flaking (clones) but will occasionally produce asexual spores from the enlarged purple pores, which extend outwards for greater exposure to the wind. Food: Photosynthesis Ocean Locations: 3 (Desert) Land Locations: 4, 4 (Desert), 4 (Riverbank), 4 (Floodplain), 4 (Lakeside)

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Biological Traits

When water is available it can soak up the water and expand. When it does so it's interior changes from tough, compact and opaque to squishy, jelly-like and semi-transluscent.