Editing Triumph of Spring (Fortune: Evolution Game) (section)

== Plants ==
===Alpine Herb===
The '''Alpine Herb''', named for their historical origins rather than their present range, is a common plant spread across Fortune's temperate regions.  It can be found in the Great Northern Savannah, the Northern Wildwood, the Mountains (where the species originated), the very edges of the Desert, and especially throughout the Meadowed Plains.  The above-ground portion of the plant is a crop of long and thin leaves, tinted yellow from the potent toxins leeched from a fungus the plant is symbiotic with.  Just underground is a large bulb, from the bottom of which extends an extensive root system.  Both the bulb and roots are entwined heavily with a nodule-forming fungus which extends fruiting bodies above ground in the warmest parts of the year.

The Alpine Herb reproduces both by going to seed, with its seeds resembling small grains that fall to the ground near the plant, and by budding off new "bulbs" from its root system as the plant expands.

===Asparagus Tree===
Asparagus Trees are a widespread family of woody flora that have adapted to several environments across the planet. No doubt ''thousands'' of varieties of the breed exist, but for FortuneHost's sanity*, only the two below are available for evolution in Part 5.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''and said "sanity" is debatable to begin with.''
====Common Asparagus Tree====
[[File:AsparagusTree_00.png|100px|thumb|Common Asparagus Tree and cutaway.]]	
Common Asparagus Trees are large woody trees with wrapped up leaves and exposed roots, standing about 15-20 feet tall on average when fully grown. This species is common in the '''Equatorial Jungles''' and sometimes the very edges of the '''Meadowed Fields'''.

====Steppes Asparagus====	
[[File:SteppesAsparagus_00.png|100px|thumb|left|Steppes Asparagus Tree and cutaway.]]	
Steppes Asparagus Trees are short, woody, trees found along the northern reaches of the '''Great Savannah'''. The Steppes variety averages around 5-8 feet tall when fully grown.
	
(Copypasted from threads) ''Early in its life, it forms a sort of cocoon with very hard and sturdy roots. These so called 'corporeal' roots are rigid and hardly ever move after the central corpus has formed. Inside this structure lies Barkworms' nest with a central heat dome, keeping the worms warm during cold nights.''

The heating dome mentioned above is heated through a curious re-purposing of the resin in the Steppes Asparagus Tree, an effect not unlike heat-packets that are found in winter emergency kits.

===Bloodlichen===
(Copypasted from thread) ''A member of the lichen family, though it more closely resembles many forms of parasitic fungi. However, it remains a non-vascular plant. Rather than relying on rocks to slowly gain calcium ions and other vital compounds it instead has begun to cling to the mobile rich sources of minerals, the animals.'' Primarily seen on '''Bloat Whales''', though '''Demolishers''' and '''Aquabeasts''' are also common hosts, due to the vast stores of calcium that make up their body armour. While these are simply the most common, Bloodlichen can attach to almost any creature, and feed on just about all life on Fortune (though the smaller insect species aren't large enough to be viable as hosts). Because of this, Bloodlichen can be found on every climate in Fortune save the Arctic.

''There are several species of lichen that do this, each a distinct color and feeding on a distinct nutrient from the shells alongside the living tissue rich with water. The vampiric Bloodlichen does however live mostly on Rock faces like it's ancestors, providing a source of soil as the ages go by.''

(thanks to namefag "'''ecologyfag'''" for the description)

===Bluegrass===
====Common Bluegrass====
[[File:Bluegrass_00.png|100px|thumb|Common Bluegrass]]
The '''Common Bluegrass''' is an extremely common type of plant found throughout the Savannah, Northern Wildwood, Meadowed Plains and Equatorial Jungle. The bluegrass is a shrub growing up to nearly a foot in height, and an inch in girth, sporting a cluster of nutritious bulbs on top.

The Common Bluegrass serves as a food source for many herbivorous creatures. Since the majority of the nutritional value is in the leaves and bulbs of the plant, it has adapted the ability to recover from damage as long as the stem remains largely intact. This, along with its high adaptability, have allowed it to become one of Fortune's most widespread plants
[[File:DwarfBluegrass_00.png‎|100px|thumb|left|Dwarf Bluegrass]]
====Dwarf Bluegrass====
The '''Dwarf Bluegrass''' is a smaller variety of bluegrass found in the Mountains region of Fortune. It is stubby and nutritionally poor and its leaves and bulbs are significantly less luscious than those of its larger cousin. They grow in small, tight bunches, seeking protection from the buffeting winds that blow through the plants' home.

===Boom Ginger===
'''Boom Gingers''' are a combustible plant found mainly in the Meadowed Plains region, though they are also present in sparse numbers in the Savannah. Their explosive property is a feature of their method of dispersion, as the "boom" for which the herb is named spreads the seedlings far and wide (not unlike a cluster bomb).

Boom Gingers are partially responsible (the other culprit is lightning from intermittent storms) for the frequent fire that sweep portions of the Meadowed Plains, renewing and refreshing the soil and keeping it green as well as keeping the meadow largely free of trees that would turn the area into a forest.

===Ice Shrub===
[[File:IceShrub_00.png|150px|thumb|Ice Shrub]]
Ice Shrubs are small grassy shrubs common in the Arctic Circle. They reproduce in a manner similar to dandelions on Earth, having lightweight seedlings that are dispersed upon the winds.

Once common across much of the planet during the Ice Age, the Ice Shrub is now only seen in the far north. It's adaptations had little use once the world began to finally thaw, and it was beaten out in many areas by other varieties better adapted to this new world.

In the cold snows of the Arctic Circle, though, the Ice Shrub is king, a highly adapted species that excels where no other can. It is a change in biochemistry that is the source of such specialization, all to deal with the extreme temperatures that came about during the plant's prime in the Ice Age. It accomplished this by the secretion of several cold fighting chemicals, including a glycol-compound that combated the issue of frostburn.

===Salt Cactus===
[[File:ThreeHerbs_00.png|200px|thumb|left|(From top to bottom) the Alpine Herb, the Boom Ginger, and the Salt Cactus.]]
'''Salt Cacti''' are plants native to the Equatorial Jungle regions and are found along the banks of bodies of freshwater, a habitat they share with the Saltbacks. Salt Cacti provide the main (almost sole) source of food for these frogs.

Salt Cacti take their name from the many spines covering their spongey stems and leaves. These sharp points are from sodium crystals, formed both naturally by the plant as well as being supplemented by minerals filtered out of the water that the plants drink.

Much of the freshwater in the Equatorial Jungles owes its lack of salinity to this plant. When the glaciers melted at the end of Fortune's Ice Age, the oceans rose quickly, turning much of the continent into swamp (like a freshwater version of Earth's Carboniferous Era). While these waters receded eventually, these left the land saturated with minerals, and for a time, little could grow in the area. Plants had a difficult (but not impossible) time growing.
One plant had adapted to this, the Salt Ginger, the ancient ancestor of the Salt Cactus. With little competition, the Salt Ginger spread across what is now the Equatorial Jungles and the Meadowed Plains. As the species spread, they removed more and more minerals from the soil, rendering once poor soil into fertile land. The Salt Ginger's competitors took advantage of the newly fertile land, and pushed the plant back, settling into its current range. Nowadays it serves to keep the rivers and ponds of Fortune fresh, such that even a stagnant, runoff body similar to Earth's Dead Sea would be *almost* potable.

===Snow Shrub===
[[File:SnowShrub_00.png|100px|thumb|Snow Shrub]]
Snow Shrubs are small grassy shrubs found throughout the northern areas bordering the Arctic Circle, both in the Great Northern Savannah and the Northern Wildwood.  They have a lightweight seedling which is carried and dispersed on the wind.

Unlike many plants it only truly comes to life during the winters in the north.  Once the temperature drops, the Snow Shrub stirs to life, its dried and barely living stems turning green and lush in the cool.  By the end of Winter it has bloomed and its seeds been dispersed, to lay fallow until the next Winter when they'll sprout.

===Spineroot===
[[File:Spineroot_00.png|200px|thumb|left|(from left to right) Spineroot with spines retracted, with spines active, dead Spineroot as tumbleweed.]]
Spineroots are common in the Desert and the Great Northern Savannah.

(Copypasted from thread) ''The tree has become decentralized over several generations, its trunk now actually a network of roots. Its leaves waxy and tough to protect against the winter chill.Finally, its spring loaded defense mechanism is now multiple smaller roots in an omnidirectional spread as opposed to a single large seed pod acting as a lance.''

Spineroots reproduce when they die, drying out and turning into large beachball-sized thorny tumbleweeds that are covered with seedlings. As the tumbleweed is blown across the land, seeds are shaken or knocked off, taking root where they land.

===Vampire Lily===
'''Vampire Lilies''' are a carnivorous family of plants that grow in the Coastal Shallows regions. They have long roots laced with neurotoxins (not unlike Earth jellyfish) that are used to stun prey that mistakes them for harmless plants. Once a prey is stunned, hollow, tube-like roots insert themselves into the victim and drain it of bodily fluids. There are currently three varieties of Vampire Lily on Fortune.
====Common====
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====Flowering====
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====Giant====
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===Water Berry Groves===
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