Botany

Weltan botany is just as vibrant and diverse as its fauna. The study of plant life and its uses is a widespread practice across the system, be it for medicine, religious practices or countless other applications, botanists are widely appreciated for their knowledge among the other races or the dalmer. The Dalmer have an extensive knowledge of natural and artificial botany that they used for their everyday lives.

This article serves as a dump article for the lesser known plant species of the Weltan system.

## Ocean botany

### Amphitrees

*Main article: Amphitrees*

A seafaring nomadic tree.

### Carnivorous seaweed

Injects toxins into the prey that it wraps itself around before extracting nutrients from the victims flesh.

### Depth Root Extractor

This species of kelp grows in sparse copses, deep on the ocean floor, and provides shelter for an array of distinct fauna and megafauna.

Survival at these depths is challenging, and the lifeforms which make their homes here have developed unusual coping mechanisms, including a bleaching of skin pigment, dependency on naturally occurring metals and oils to adjust to temperature and pressure, and in some cases even electrical defense mechanisms.

The vibrant red oils which seep from the bloodvine coagulate into semi-hard pustules, which frequently fall loose and form a vital foodstuff for the local ecosystem, or are otherwise reabsorbed into the ground over time.

## Land botany

### Jubokko

A tree that snatches its victims, traps them in its branches in its canopy, and drains them of blood.

### Levitree

A tree that levitates dramatically when hit, as a defense mechanism.

### Corpse Trees

*Main article: Corpse Tree*

Trees with the ability to reanimate corpses and duplicate objects.

### Fungal Warp Metal

*Main article: Fungal Warp Metal*

A fungus with the unique ability to create naturally occurring warp portals.

### Corpse Flower

Flowers that take the shape of the corpse it grows on. Considered an offshoot of the corpse tree.

### Snow Pear

Pears that grow in arctic climates, and are a good source of food all year round for the herbivores that inhabit these areas. They are grown and collected by frost giants, who trade them with other races.

### Bomb flowers

These plants have evolved fruit that burst violently upon impact to spread its seeds. Agricultural raising and breeding by the other races causes these plants to become potent explosives. They grow in mountaintops caves and other vegetation. The fruit itself explodes 7 to ten seconds after being picked.

### Champoline

An artificial plant whose tough membrane is flexible enough to propulse any object that lands on it at a great distance.

### Funghigh

A very tall stalk like plant whose natural grooves in the bark could allow an inexperienced climber to reach high points.

### Paddies

Giant water lilies that can make makeshift boats.

### Mineral Flower

A large flower with tentacle like roots that connect with energy rich crystals in order to feed the plant, these plants are especially useful to mining Dalmer.

### Root Extractor

A plant that grows deep tendrils into the ground, when these tendrils reach mineral seams, or other materials that the plant cannot use to develop itself, this extracted matter is then kept in pustules, which can be collected without harming the plant.

### Pressurepollen Flower

This flower can set off a powerful stream of pollen that sends the object standing on it far away, the Fan flower works on the same principle, flinging the object like a catapult.

### Megaflora

A type of beanstalk that can grow to reach space, when it topples it hits with a force greater than an Atomic Fracture Weapon.

Ever since an incident where a 154 km high stalk destroyed a 5x153.25km area from the force of falling, these Megaflora are actively researched for study and as precautionary measures.

Recently, there has been a discovery that explains why there aren’t that many Megaflora related titanic destruction, they are the favored prey of Dendrophages who generally eat them before they grow to such immense heights.

Even more recently, it has been discovered that other types of Megaflora exist, resembling trees.

See also: **Star Point Island Controversy**

### Disgruntle

A plant whose face looks like a grumpy long nosed humanoid who makes grumpy sounds when disturbed

### Tongueseed

A round plant with holes that sticks out proboscises to capture prey, a cousin to anemones

### Pullstring fruit

A fruit who’s shell is very hard, but the seed is edible, it must be accessed by pulling the vegetable “string” which unwraps the shell, revealing the seed.

### Sand Orange

Although noble, the plan to plant trees over dead Dalmer caused the fruit of these trees to be poisoned. Indeed, a decomposing dalmer corpse releases a lot of harmful chemicals such as mercury into the ground, this also explains why a common burial practices is the stripping of flesh and organs, and only the skeleton is left.

### Oledinia

A Pike forest that causes the soil to ooze tar and oil, precursor to a demonic invasion.

### Ucheplant

A type of tree that can disrupt cameras and wireless transmissions.

### Sneaker Bulb

A carnivorous plant like organism with a thin elongated body with a thin digestive tract and a large bulbous head.

They are opportunistic hunters but will eat dead and decaying matter. They are useful in the ecosystem as they recycle and break down detritus. They also supplement their diet with photosynthesis.

They are found in most forested areas and are cultivated for consumption, their bell heads being stuffed and cooked.

The plants’ head generates gastric that it can propulse for several meters, the acid is mostly harmless but is very sticky.

The plant can uproot and move to a sunnier spot or to flee from predators.

### Whacky Cac

A cactus that is used as a punching bag, its green outer shell is green and spiky.

### Super soil

Soil with the ability to grow any biological organism to its full potential in a relatively short amount of time. Nothing growing in the soil requires external nutrients or other resources.

Any food grown in Super soil is reported to be of very high quality, taste, and nutrition, no matter what state the food was in before being planted. This is how the Dalmer reached agricultural independence, however, if any other organism is planted, it will grow into a monstrous being. This is why contamination of a super soil field is extremely dangerous and can cause monstrous epidemics and famines at the same time.

### Groman Pumpkin

A species of pumpkin that once reaching sexual maturity hatches childlike entities that are used to disperse seeds. The entities walk awkwardly across the countryside before deteriorating. These entities also eliminate other plant life around the pumpkin patch, ensuring the dominance of the pumpkin and its proliferation. The entities are known to plant seeds in unusual areas, such as civilian plant pots and inside corpses.

#### Humanoid Watermelon

Same as the Groman Pumpkin humanoids that emerge from pumpkins, they are sold as slave labor. the humanoids are fully capable of movement, performing specific tasks and understanding language. they can spit seeds for defense, as well as striking with hands and feet. they can imprint on specific humans as a leader figure and defend them with their lives. they are short lived and easily destructible due to their plant nature.  the youth of their species are often in leadership roles. they are cannibalistic and often wage war against one another.

### Blight Skull

A Strange flora that when exposed to silence for periods of time upwards of eight hours, emits spores in the form of a green gas. The spores are virulent and tend to sterilize plants surrounding the plant. The reason it ceases to expel its seeds when noise is present is believed to be a survival mechanism, as the plant itself, despite resembling a pale skull, is delicious and highly sought out by its predators.

### Hypnotic Plant

The hypnotic plant is a predatory botanical mass. The plant is composed of plants indigenous to the region and the land in the immediate vicinity of the plants’ primary feeding area, extending to a roughly circular area twenty meters in radius from its base. The plant is capable of attracting prey within a 50km radius through hallucinogenic means.

Animals (including humans) suffering from potentially life-threatening physical injuries or diseases, or who are afflicted by psychological disorders that induce self-destructive tendencies, feel a powerful compulsion to come to the plant and lie in a prostrate position facing it. Individuals lying in such a position are rapidly attacked by a powerful combination of flesh-eating bacteria which poisons prey organisms and induces paralysis; and finally, complete consumption by species of insect that emerge from the inside of the land surrounding the plant during the final stage of feeding. The plant derives nutrition through the complete digestion of affected individuals, particularly larger mammals such as humans.

### Fatalshade tree

A tree whose wood and bark is incredibly strong and lightweight. this is offset by the petals that are razor sharp. this makes production dangerous and slow.

### Gnoggin

Trees activated by blood, the tree grows heads without eyelids and have a seed in the brain cavity. the eyes follow hands and the head is identical to the blood given.

### Toxic forests

Spread spores via massive spore explosions, these spores must be eliminated via flamer. The toxic forests create quicksand underneath which are unpolluted aquifers. The aquifers receive pure water from being sifted through the dead trees. The trees themselves crumble into the sifting sand with age.

### Suspendium Flora

Plenty of plants make use of Suspendium. Suspendium trees grow narrow fleshy trunks and gigantic canopies. Other plants are entirely rootless, floating, capturing moisture and nutrients from the air. Of course, these plants are not very safe to eat, but they’re considered useful for capturing Suspendium that would otherwise end up in crops.

### Bone Bush

Calcium excrescences that look like bones.

### Mandrake

Screaming Anthropomorphic Plant. Must be planted while wearing earmuffs.

### Copter Plant

Species of pumpkin that when mature flies off like a helicopter. It flies thanks to the hot air that is produced within and the helicopter like blades that lift it off. The flying is part of its seeding strategy.

### Wind leaf

Porous and lightweight, wind passes through it and accumulates leading to a strong gust of wind shooting out when it is swung.

These gigantic leaves grow randomly on trees, and are thought to be parasitic in nature.

### Pychandra acuminata

Metal sap tree absorbs nickel to become toxic, its leaves prevent competition from spreading by raising metal levels in the soil.

### **Trash plant**

A predatory plant that can be opened by a trigger from the outside, but not the inside. Routinely hunts larger mammals such as leopards.

### Hogweed

To counter an invasion, the Dalmer used pulverized hogweed extract to force the invaders to seek shelter when the sun was out. This cruel weapon made the affected sensitive to UV lighting, burning within seconds.

### Tartary

A plant that grows from lambs, and produces cotton as its wool.

### Treasure bamboo

Contain gems collected by faeries. Faeries make their homes in hollow bamboo stalks. Some other races believe these fae are holy children and adopt them.

### Sundew plants

Use sticky limbs to capture prey, they can distinguish what is touching them, and won't trap just anything, such as stones.

This means that one method to combat them is to cover their limbs with stones.

### Water dowsing tree

A tree that survives entirely without water, due to its incredibly fast root growth rate that lets it tap into very deep water reserves. As a rule of thumb, the height of the tree is the square root of the underground root system.

The branches of these trees are used for its namesake, by planting them into the ground overnight, and if roots have started growing the next morning, it is a sign that there is water nearby enough for the rods to find it.

### Caapi plat

Tree whose roots are gnawed by jaguars for their hallucinogenic effects.

### Enchanted forests

Unnavigable, full of overgrown thorns

Ents ensure the growth of the forest, killing lumberjacks

A species of manipulated trees whose fruits grow downwards, into caves inhabited by the forest dwellers.

The homes of the forest dwellers are now abandoned, the caves they inhabit crumble under the weight of the trees, creating hazards for those wishing to cross the forest.