Greetings, everyone! Today we are focusing on sessile organisms which inhabit the forests of the TDTLF biomes. TDTLF biomes for a quick explanation are necessarily mainly forest habitat with some plains contained inside it that continues after the range of a denseforests, although this isn't necessarily the case for every TDTLF habitat, it is, on Tuaisceart.
A "forest"on Eile is defined by the dominance of tree-analogues. They contain a variety of organisms, despite being dominated by these towering tree-analogues.
Most tree-analogues on Eile have to communicate in order to decide metabolic cycles and best times in order to loose leaves and other things. While this was said on the last post, we are going to be exploring this further on the habitats of Tuaisceart. Trees often have to communicate with sometimes completely different tree-analogues and in order to complete this they have to have symbiosis. Symbiosis can often be hijacked, which forces symbiotes to evolve further, the hijackers adapt to these changes, an evolutionary arms race begins. Let's look at these tree-analogues.
| A sketch of a Cranya next to a stickman for size comparison, this tree analogue is a very typical one in Tuaisceart's TDTLFs, core and roots are extended and meet with "hyphae" treads of the eusessiloid organisms. The tree top half is especially confusing, some "tree-analogues" never developed any kind of symmetry. The Cranya branches and leaves are easily regrowable due to being rather flimsy structures. Despite this, they are often host to variety of organisms and organism-made structures over their long lifetime(130-140 Eilen years)Colonies, nests, parasites make this organism their home. Reproduction is also made through releasing pollenoids, however this time reproduction is more akin to a pine tree despite radically different morphologies . Releasing two fruiting bodies, one male, and one female, the female one is hard like an acorn, while the male one is soft and spongy. The male fruiting bodies releases pollenoid to other cranya trees female fruiting bodies through wind ( Eile has lower gravity, making it easier to traverse through wind), occasionally use of fire and some kind of heat was evolved as an alternative to spread the pollen. The female fruiting bodies once the pollenoids enters them, they fertilize into a "nut" and become so heavy that they drop down into the forest floor, where wandering organisms will eat and excrete the seeds out in a lucky enough location. All of this results in a new cranya "tree-analogue". The scientific name for the species is Confususmateriae confususmateriae EILE. |
Here is some sketches of tree-analogue that can be found on Tuaisceartan forests,these show the variety of morphologies that can be found. The number to indicate what is what is below each tree.
1. A pine-like species of tree-analogue found in forests. Often a shelter or place for organism-made structures. Evolved from isolated species.
2.Perhaps more of an "undergrowth" tree-analogue, maybe related to the Cranya.
3. Bizzare tree analogue, also a great shelter for species, perhaps related to 1.
4. An uncommon tree-analogue which has an unusual shape and form.
5.A tree-analogue that looks like a spruce, however, not "evergreen"
6. The most special about this one in that it has the most secure "network attachments" between the eusessiloids in the ever growing arm race between saboteurs and symbiotes.
7. Produces large fruits which taste like somewhere between a tomato and an apple.
8.A monstrous tree analogues which reproduces using motile "gametophytes". This tree acts as a hub for pseudo-mycorrhizal networks and communication between trees.
9. A strange tree-analogue which roots itself using "hyphae".
10.Perhaps related to 9. , considered more as an undergrowth photoid, however it still communicates with other "trees" using the networks.
Moving on from these photoids, are the eusessiloids.
The Eusessiloids/funga of these "forests" are the powerlines and wires of a vast biological network. The energy and pumping between these can cause soil temperature to rise, making a land forest on Tuaisceart that is sometimes hot.
This is basically a biological mini-powerline. Also, first look into one of the many Eusessiloids on Eile. This Eusessiloid is part of a phylum which had adapted to land, it is the analogue of the complex multicellular fungi found on earth, however, the shape of them are indeed, radically different. The purple bulb contains a clump of tubes and vessels pumping around collections and information between the big organisms of the forest. This also contains practically biological neural cells in order to organise the direction of which and what information is going. These organisms take around 30% of the energy that is sent between the"tree-analogues" for their own growth, sometimes, if there is a lot information being sent between, it can even take 60-70% of energy transmitted. The yellow structure is a spore "transmitter", containing sporomytes which are motile, microscopic, and move until they find an smaller untaken patch. Once found, they"germinate", unmatured younger mini-powerlines often parasitize networks before becoming mature. Flavum violaceum EILE is the scientific name for this species.
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| Let's look at this red, wondrous bush, it is a parasite of the endless symbiosis. An endless arms race between symbiotes and saboteurs is evident within the sessile side of the world of Eile. A possible relative of the exarborigramenids(A group of woody photoids, often with tree analogues), this photoid has assumed red leaves in order to gain as much energy as possible from what light is left in these forests . However, as you can also see in this illustration, it that it parasitises "mycorrhizae" and "roots" of connected networks, taking 80% of the nutrients and "information" being sent ,practically causing biological "network disruptions" to occur. These reproduce asexually and through spores through the top "leaves" of the photoid. Rubrum tuaisceart EILE is the scientific name for the species illustrated. |
