42 Cassea
Name: Cassea
Descendant of: Casgel
Description: Due to having many photosynthetic pigments and organelles, it's ancestor (like many sea-to-land transitioning plants) divided the use of these pigments between times of day. This allows it to undergo photosynthesis at night under star, moon and planet light, and photosynthesize optimally depending on if it's environmental medium is air or water.
Their spores and root systems activate on contact with rocky surfaces. They can gradually adapt to changes in salinity while travelling up riverbanks with it's roots. Different species within the genus have variable affinity with particular salinity, some preferring to stay near the sea, some handling well locations with high fluctuation in salinity, and some who find freshwater more ideal, thriving in and stabilizing riverbanks of narrower, faster-flowing upland rivers.
Their spore stalks can reach 30cm tall and bounce back and forth in the wind. The stems have a coiled internal structure to give them enough rigidity to stand upright (like how a rolled up piece of paper can stand on it's end but a flat piece of paper cannot). They grow and open fast (due to tidal patterns giving them limited dry time) and are comprised of mostly water, except for the spores which have a hydrophobic exterior and are very tiny. Being hydrophobic makes it more likely that they will wash up as a residue on riverbanks and rocky coastlines, instead of dissolving into the river or sea and floating to the riverbed or seabed.
The foliage appears leafy but is not true leaves, having a simpler gel-like consistency and no strict organisation to the shape and growth of it's leaf-like lobes. Young lobes are smaller and older lobes are larger and broader.
Land Locations: 1 (coast, river), 2 (coast, river), 3 (coast, river), 11 (coast, river), 12 (river) 13 (coast, river), 20 (river), 26 (river)
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