Strombolian Vine

The Strombolian Vine is type of vine growing in the jungles near the Wabu Islands. It uses the bones of dead animals as an exoskeleton for both protection against predators and to move itself around the jungle.
==Description==
The strombolian vines are light black with crimson leaves. They are 8 millimetres in diameter thick and covered in furry hair-like fibbers. The vines are able to contract themselves allowing them to pull objects closer. Usually two vines will wrap themselves around a solid object, such as a bone, and in turns contract themselves in opposite directions to move it in a perverted imitation of a muscle. As a plant matures it will grow more vines which grow around an increasing number of bones, until it eventually controls an entire skeleton. The strombolian vine attacks indiscriminately and when it comes along a living creature it either strikes at them with its exoskeleton or flings a loose vine at them to choke them out.
==Reproduction==
The most dangerous aspect of the strombolian vine is its reproduction cycle. When a strombolian vine reaches sexual maturity it begins to grow a large orange and red flower from one of its exoskeleton's orifices, such as the eyes or the mouth. It then seeks out an appropriate host by killing any creature it comes along and tearing them open to find the ideal pile of bones to lay its seeds in. Ones the seeds are planted into a corpse they will use it as a source of fertiliser and ones the new vines have grown large enough they will begin to animate the remaining bones and begin the cycle all over again.
Category:Plants
Category:Creatures
Category:Vines
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