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Tubus Rosarium – Red
(Also known as the red bamboo)
“Bloody hell there’s fruit on it”

This plant structure looks visually similar to the earth-native plant, bamboo. It appears to rise up from below the surface, implying some of the structure is underground.
Mature specimens of this variant produce blue, fruit-like bulbs that grown on the trunk. They have a negative effect on the human body once consumed, as Exobiologist [Redacted] suffered from a bout of [Redacted] for a [Redacted] number of days, although they did make a full recovery.
Too, on the trunks of the Red Bamboo, are red leaves, which proves it makes use of photosynthesis to gain food. Further analysis has demonstrated that, despite a lack of wind, the leaves appear to move of their own accord, implying that they are using a far more advanced nervous system than we previously believed.
A final notable feature of the Tubus Rosarium is its bowls. More noticeable at the juvenile stage, the bowl is present at the top of the trunk. it is believed to be some sort of water catcher, although tests of the liquid determined that it was not, in fact, water, and some sort of acid measuring on the PH scale 1, or equivalent to hydrochloric acid.

Cactodia Lapis- Teal
(Blue-scaled Shell)
“Looks like it has scales on it, the weird thing”

The size of the plant is extraordinary, the biggest located being over three foot tall. As with the plant before it, the Shell appears to just be the part on the surface, with a larger one underneath.
The shell is white, with large blue spots protruding from it, made of a particularly tough organic substance, clearly used as a defence mechanism.
When it reaches its full maturity, the shell gains the scales of which its name implies, them growing from the top of the sphere in a dome-like shape.

Frutexia Flabellium
(Compass Flower)
“Now that’s just neat!”

The Flora, nicknamed the Compass flower by my Partner, Cass, is very similar to the flowers on most earth-like worlds that humans have inhabited.
Due to the location it has evolved in - a steep cliff face- the light does not appear to be needed in its survival, in terms of Photosynthesis. As such, there is no chlorophyll, making the leaves and body of the plant a dusty orange, similar to the terrain of the planet it was located upon.
Interestingly, in a planet without insects or pollinators, there is flowers on the stalks of some of the plants, although they are few and far between. The pattern of the flowers is symmetrical, a circle combined with eight points, much like the ones of a compass in the old days of earth.
Kari believes that the way that seeds are sent out is via expulsion, a blast of pressure shooting seeds far off, which would explain the random patches of flowers, and their small growth.
featured central: a fully matured compass flower. To the right, a juvenile compass flower

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After further study, it has been determined that there are multiple subspecies of Frutexia Flabellium. It appears that the only differences are colour, apart from no. 3, which appears to photosynthesise, despite the contrary listed above. Such identified subspecies are written below.

#1 Brown compass flower
#2 Blue Compass flower
#3 Green compass flower
#4 orange compass flower


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Bacterium Alcyoneum
(Cass’s picnic)
“Hey, El! Could have a picnic on one of these for our honeymoon”

This species of Bacterium Is a multi-celled organism that has formed together into a structure much like a living blanket. The pattern, as is often found on bacterium of this type, is a wavy line, circling the body of the bacteria and making a ringed pattern.

Tussock Ignis – lime
(The seeded grass)
“Ehhhh. Looks, too earth-like. Aren’t we on an ice planet?”

The plant Tussock Ignis is very similar to grass regularly found upon earth-like planets, despite its cold environment.
The base and roots of the plant are a white-coloured tone, transitioning into a light green the taller the grass grows. Fully mature specimens grow bulb-like seeds on the tops of the grass stalks, which appear to be seeds, and give the seeded grass its name.
Interestingly, it appears to grow in organised patterns, with younger plants being on the ‘outskirts’ of a given shape, and the grass having seeds being in the centre.