Mmkay, I decided to try writing out some fruit-bearing flora ideas, mostly because Ayres needs Ramathian fruits to make pies, cakes, etc. And then one of my flora ideas led to a fauna idea -- the incendiary beetle. xD Hm. Maybe after this I'll do some vegetables. Flora: <b class="green">Razzlerajji Bush - Added</b> http://shadowlack.com/life/flora.php?id=48http://shadowlack.com/life/flora.php?id=48</a> Category: Small Plants Biomes: Boreal Forest, Grassland, Mountain, Temperate Forest Frequency: Common Diet: Carbon dioxide, water, sunlight... Edible: Razzlerajji, also called razberries (fruit); razzlegasul (flower petals). Size: 2-3 feet high, up to 5 feet wide. Description: The razzlerajji bush is small and intensely thorned, producing sticky green wood unfit for burning and dry, bitter leaves unfit for consuming. Despite these obvious turn-offs, it is still a sought-after plant, due entirely to the fact that its blooms and fruit are so wonderfully delicious. It produces small reddish berries, which are made up of many little spherical 'pouches' of thin, sweet juice that burst easily. They are called razzlerajji in formal Ramathian, razberries in the modern English/Ramathian slang. The bright yellow blooms are used as garnishes in haute cuisine, but they spoil very quickly (a matter of hours). So most restaurants that include them in their dishes grow their own razzlerajji bushes, sometimes right in the kitchen. The petals are called razzlegasul in Ramathian and have no name in plain English, as only those affluent enough to speak Ramathian would eat razzlegasul anyway. Habitat Razzlerajji thrive where ever there is some degree of soil, moisture, and adequate sunlight. Extreme cold can frost the berries and blooms, but the plant itself survives to bloom again. Too much water is one of the few things that can kill it. <b class="green">Qalliberry Bush - Added</b> http://shadowlack.com/life/flora.php?id=49http://shadowlack.com/life/flora.php?id=49</a> Category: Small Plants Biomes: Boreal Forest, Grassland, Mountain, Temperate Forest Frequency: Common Diet: Carbon dioxide, water, sunlight... Edible: Qalliberries (fruit). Size: 2-3 feet high, up to 5 feet wide. Description: The qalliberry bush looks somewhat similar to the razzlerajji bush: short, wide, with wood too moist to burn and leaves too dry to eat. Its fruit, qalliberries, are also made of juice-filled spheres, the only difference being color: razberries are reddish, whereas qalliberries are a dull blue-violet. In the blooming stage, when no fruit are yet present to distinguish by color, qalliberry bushes are nearly identical to razzlerajji bushes; they both have large yellow blooms, similar leaves and wood, etc. But qalliberry blooms are poisonous -- not fatally, though enough to give one a bad case of food poisoning. The only way to tell razzlerajji from qalliberry is to cut a piece of its branches and burn it: razzlerajji emits a thick, yellow-grey smoke, and qalliberry gives off a noxious blue-grey smoke. Habitat: Qalliberry bushes thrive where ever there is some degree of soil, moisture, and adequate sunlight. Extreme cold can frost the berries and blooms, but the plant itself survives to bloom again. Too much water is one of the few things that can kill it. <b class="green">Flaming Gaukh Tree</b> http://shadowlack.com/life/flora.php?id=50http://shadowlack.com/life/flora.php?id=50</a> Category: Trees Biomes: Boreal Forest, Grassland, Temperate Forest Frequency: Common Diet: Carbon dioxide, water, sunlight... Edible: Flaming gaukhs, referred to simply as gaukhs usually (fruit). Size: Up to 20 feet high and wide. Description: This tree was given the name flaming gaukh for two reasons: its blooms and fruit are both colored fiery reds, yellows, and oranges; and its wood is so dry that it has been known to burst into flame rather quickly when attacked by the fervent digging of the incendiary beetle. Modern cultivators have tried breeding a less-flammable subspecies of flaming gaukh, which they intend on calling the fireproof gaukh, but have thus far failed. The flaming gaukh has smooth, beautiful blonde wood, but it is too easy to ignite to be used in carpentry/construction. Its blooms are huge, sometimes reaching sizes of two feet across, but the fruit are not so large in comparison (five to six inches in diameter). The fruit is circular with a faint line tracing down one side, and its skin is hairy (two to three inches of 'fur' is normal). The skin is edible but disgusting, and the peeled flesh is sweet and delectable. It is often used to make jellies and pies. Habitat: The flaming gaukh requires wide, flat areas of soil to spread its roots for stability, and it needs large amounts of moisture for its dry limbs. It thrives best in grasslands, where incendiary beetles are not so common as in boreal and temperate forests. Fauna: <b class="green">Incendiary Beetles - ADDED</b> http://shadowlack.com/life/fauna.php?id=107http://shadowlack.com/life/fauna.php?id=107</a> Category: Insecta Biomes: Boreal Forest, Caves, Coastline, Desert, Grassland, Mountain, Savannah, Temperate Forest, Tropical Rainforest, Wetland Frequency: Extremely Common Active: Diurnal Diet: Herbivore Lifespan: 2-3 years Size: 1-5 inches long, up to two inches wide. Weight: Up to 65 grams Description: The incendiary beetle is often an ashy grey or muddy brown color, long and tapered with ferocious claws for burrowing and folded wings for flight. They have thick, dull exoskeletons that make clicking noises when they move, and they are very sturdy. When they burrow, they move at incredible speeds and generate intense heat and friction, which sometimes is enough to start a fire (hence the name, incendiary beetle). They are particularly fatal to the flaming gaukh tree. Habitat: Incendiary beetles can live nearly anywhere: the only thing they can't survive is intense cold or no place to land after flight (ie: over bodies of water, such as large lakes or oceans). Reproduction and Social Life: Incendiary beetles are particularly hard to control as pests because they have no set mating season, choosing instead to mate and lay their eggs sporadically. That way, flaming gaukh farmers can't spray poison seasonally to kill all beetle larvae and end the reproduction cycle, as there are always more eggs or adults present (the only poison that has been developed for them only works on larvae).
Dude, nice. :D I thought it was about time that we had some sort of tricky poison-esque berry. I wonder how often those two would get confused with one another when in season. I like the beetles too. We really just need more bugs in general. Hehe.
x3 Thanks. & they'd probably only be confused in the wild, 'cause razzlerajji used for their petals are mostly grown right in the restaurant where they're used, anyway. :B And, ooh, I should have proofread a little more carefully before posting. xD; I've just noticed some typos.
Oh, yeah. Of course. :P I wonder how many animals have developed some way to detect poisons in plants... and how many may have built up immunities if they live exclusively on the stuff. And... right here is when my brain flew out the window. Wee. Typos are fun too. :] My browser has a built in spell checker thing. I keep on adding Ramathian words to it so that it won't give me errors for them.
Okay, all fixed up. x3 Something about 'detect poisons' made me think terminator deer, scanning the nearby foliage with its poison detectors... & wow, what browser do you use? o_o I want a built-in spell checker.
lol... robot deer. The ultimate environment protectors. They came from the future in order to prevent the destruction of their natural habitat. dundundun... Oh, and it's just Firefox. It'll automatically check all the form fields and the like that you fill out if you have it enabled.
Heh very good i myself was of posting all my daemon ideas ive 4 types of them in my head at the moment along with general polotics for them i just need to type it. Also theres one thing i dont like about firefox, and that is it doesnt like english style words like colour and flavour so I have to add em to the dictionary but then again its just a little thing. other than that its great. Oh and the spell checker doesnt work in things like meebo and the like so when in a flash thing watch your typing. But still Firefox is class, i love the stumble option set it to free games when no ones on and huzzah hours of fun while waiting for people to appear. Oh ad thinking about it does the bb code stoof work with those style words? sorry if i seem ignorant
Install the appropriate word dictionary. :] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3</a> They've got American, Canadian, British, as well as Australian English... as well as a lot of other languages. Once you've got it installed, just right click in a text field and select the language that you want to use. Generally it'll just ignore things like BBCode as well.
Heh cheers i tried to find that but probably got distracted. I dont mind about the BBCode thing just got to get used to it i mean flash coding anoyyes me to hell and back but im trawling away at it untill i can get used to it. Besides it aint anoyying as such i was just wandering. heh Fey rants too much sometimes. I'll try to get the Daemony stuff done sometime next week.
