Pohono Flora and Fauna

[Bre]

The nuts are really, really big. The space with the egg, while not always, would probably be revealed when they're sliced and broken and chopped into regular nut-sized spots, if the hole wasn't seen first.

[Kat]

Well, since they almost have a 100% mortality rate, the more that they were found, the better. I don't want them to be like A SUPER HUGE THREAT OMG YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, and if they were not easy to discover, they kind of would be.

And as I said, I think they probably breed more in forest animals who don't really know how to check than humans.

Also, just how big were you thinking for the nuts. I was thinking of making one that was like a foot across and two feet down at about 15 pounds, maybe 20-25. Is that big enough? Is that weight realistic? I don't even know.

[Bre]

20 to 25 pounds would be a good weight and that would be good for the medium sort of ones.

[Shaetani]

Common name: Ceraci Fruit
Scientific Name: Cerasinus Antidesma
Description: Ceraci Fruit are similar to earths Cherries in that they had a vibrant red skin around the flesh of the fruit with a hard pit in the center. The inner flesh varies in color from pale blush pink to a blood red when fully ripe. Unripe, the fruit can have a bitter tart taste to it. Once ripe though, the fruit is usually sweet and bruises easily. Unlike earth cherries, the Ceraci fruit are larger, being anywhere from two to six inches in diameter when fully ripe. The average size is three inches across, with the pit taking up three fourths of an inch to a full inch in the middle. Due to the larger size, the Ceraci fruit's stems are thicker and sturdier than earth cherries, more twig like in appearance though they retain some flexibility. The tree the fruit grows on can grow up to twenty feet tall and has dark ashy colored bark that has a sandpaper type texture to it. The leaves are broad and a deep hunter green, with paler silver green streaks along the veins of the leaf. The trees blossom in the middle of spring, and by the beginning of summer the fruits are available for harvest.

[Aikaph]

Common Name: Poison Hearts

Scientific Name: Cordocyanus Crypnecrosis

Size: Fruit: Can range between 1-3 centimeters in diameter, and between 3-10 centimeters around.
Vine: Usually around 3 meters in length, but can grow to be longer if provided with a sufficient climbing area.

Physical Characteristics: The first thing that one notices about a Poison Heart is it's color; the ripe fruit is distinguished by a vibrant blue ranging from afternoon blue to close to cyan. Unripe Poison Hearts are a duller blue, more like the sky on a cloudy day. They are in the shape of a crude heart, and aren't easily mistaken for another fruit.

The plant on which the Poison Hearts grow on is a minty-green vine that can grow up to three meters long on flat ground. However, if there is a sufficient climbing area, such as a tree or fence, it will cling onto the area and climb up it, allowing them to grow exponentially in length.

A Poison Heart is exceptionally sweet; its taste is reminiscent to Terran peaches. However, there is a penalty for eating this fruit. Inside the juices of the flesh is a high concentration of solanine. Eating the entire fruit will kill an organism within an hour.

There is a flip side to this deadly fruit, however. If one crushed the fruit and let it dry, the solanine is evaporated away with the juices and the powder can be used for tea or herbal medicine.

Danger to Humans: Poison Hearts can have drastic results on humans. If a person were to take a bite of a ripe fruit, they would suffer from gastrointestinal and neurological problems. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps, burning of the throat, cardiac dysrhythmia, headache and dizziness. Hallucinations, loss of sensation, paralysis, fever, jaundice, dilated pupils and hypothermia have been reported in more severe cases. These usually develop within eight to twelve hours after ingestion.

If a person eats an entire fruit in one sitting, the massive amount of toxins would spread throughout the body, and cause severe internal problems. There would be a high chance that the toxins would eat away at the inner lining of the intestines and cause the individual to die of acid erosion within the body in the span of an hour. Certainly a painful death.

Habitat: Poison Hearts are most commonly found on the southern peninsulas of Spiderland, thriving in the warm and salty environment. More often than not, the base roots of the vines are embedded in moist ground rich in sea salts.