NAME OF FLORA: Red Stella APPEARANCE: A bush with thin, whip-like branches sparsely covered in pine needles, capped with little fruit that look like purple spiny sea urchins. ENVIRONMENT: Desert HAZARD-LEVEL: High. PROPERTIES: Sea urchin fruits at the end are designed like jumping cholla; they detach easily from the stems and stick like burs into your clothes, ankles, packs. If they manage to penetrate flesh, they leak a pheromone designed to make you very sleepy (this keeps animals from trying to eat the fruit inside of the cluster of spines, which although small and nigh impossible to get to, is highly edible and delicious). RARITY: Uncommon. Grow sparsely amidst crabgrass and other (highly flammable but harmless) scrub brush, often overlooked and assumed harmless because of its neighboring plants and its pretty "flowers."
NAME OF FLORA: Beachwood APPEARANCE: Gnarled, curvy, gray, stick-like stems that stick straight up from the ground in a burst pattern, like aloe vera and ocotillo had lovechildren. Yes, they have thorns, and they're sharp at the end too. :( ENVIRONMENT: Desert HAZARD-LEVEL: Low PROPERTIES: Aside from the thorns, which are large as rose thorns and pretty easy to see and intermittent enough to avoid, these plants are not only harmless, but helpful! They are floral camels, storing water inside their fibrous shafts. Look past its dry appearance to crack one open, and you'll be able to suck at the fluid it has stored for hours. RARITY: Uncommon.
crawls in like the desert child i am
APPEARANCE: A bush with thin, whip-like branches sparsely covered in pine needles, capped with little fruit that look like purple spiny sea urchins.
ENVIRONMENT: Desert
HAZARD-LEVEL: High.
PROPERTIES: Sea urchin fruits at the end are designed like jumping cholla; they detach easily from the stems and stick like burs into your clothes, ankles, packs. If they manage to penetrate flesh, they leak a pheromone designed to make you very sleepy (this keeps animals from trying to eat the fruit inside of the cluster of spines, which although small and nigh impossible to get to, is highly edible and delicious).
RARITY: Uncommon. Grow sparsely amidst crabgrass and other (highly flammable but harmless) scrub brush, often overlooked and assumed harmless because of its neighboring plants and its pretty "flowers."
NAME OF FLORA: Beachwood
APPEARANCE: Gnarled, curvy, gray, stick-like stems that stick straight up from the ground in a burst pattern, like aloe vera and ocotillo had lovechildren. Yes, they have thorns, and they're sharp at the end too. :(
ENVIRONMENT: Desert
HAZARD-LEVEL: Low
PROPERTIES: Aside from the thorns, which are large as rose thorns and pretty easy to see and intermittent enough to avoid, these plants are not only harmless, but helpful! They are floral camels, storing water inside their fibrous shafts. Look past its dry appearance to crack one open, and you'll be able to suck at the fluid it has stored for hours.
RARITY: Uncommon.