Plants
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Plants are living things that grow in the earth and have stems, leaves, and roots.
The world contains a surfeit of plant life, with no fewer than one million species (at least 600,000 of them being terrestrial), some displaying remarkable evolutionary divergences allowing them to fit into a wide variety of ecological niches. However, lignin has not evolved in this world, so the tallest terrestrial plant life does not grow much beyond the height of the tallest of the sentient species.
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Trivia
- Plants were first introduced in the move Plants.
- It is unclear why lignin did not evolve on this world. Some suggestions (none canonical) have been:
- Plants in this universe might not be plants in the same sense as in our universe.
- Dominick: "These plants seem much more animal-like than our plants do, so maybe the term 'plant' is just a poor shorthand for what these species truly are... Their biology might not... fit the definition of plants. Maybe they have some organelles that lead them to be more animal-like, evolved due to their outnumbering of animal species."
- RavShimon: "I mean, they mostly are similar to what we'd call plants... but just as on our world, where you get the occasional plant that just doesn't behave the way we expect a plant to behave (looking at you, Venus flytrap), so too on this world you get exceptions--it's just that with such a wide variety of plant life in this world there is much more room for evolutionary divergence."
- Trafalgar: "These may be photosynthesing organisms and "plants" may be the best word used to refer to them, but they may not be precisely plants in the sense that we know them, their biology seems to allow for a lot more motility."
- Wammywoo: "I like this move as it blurs the line between plant and animal, kind of adding an inbetween."
- Dominick: "Yeah, the Floating Wanderers are downright protists"
