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

===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.