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Stinging Indigo; Acerblattaflora reptilis
Topic Started: Aug 30 2014, 02:45 PM (201 Views)
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Name: Stinging Indigo (Acerblattaflora reptilis)

Height: 9 inches
Width: 6 inches

Weight: 20 grams

Base DNA: Common dog-violet, blue wild indigo, spear thistle, passion fruit, sensitive plant, broad bean, ladder-backed woodpecker, common wasp, castor bean tick, Arabian fat tailed scorpion

Abilities: Creep, sting, invenomate

Weaknesses: Delicate, slow, nearly harmless alone

Defenses: Sting

Special Attributes: Can sense nearby movement, can communicate with nearby individuals of its species, smells nice

Description: A slender, slightly spiny stem with a few spiny leaves, ending in an indigo flower with a thin barb at the end of a coiled vine at its center. At its base, it has a bulbous growth with eight roots which slightly resemble arthropodal legs emerging from it.

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LOGI Info: Stinging indigos are small, delicate, spiny stemmed flowers which inhabit the steppes, prairies and savannahs of the Genome Incorporated islands. They are social and tend to gather and form large colonies, known as patches, which generally comprise 1000 to 5000 individuals. They live most of their lives like other plants, staying in one place and draining water and nutrients from the soil. Unlike most other plants, though, they are not tied to one location. If times are hard, they can uproot themselves and, with their strangely leg like roots, creep slowly across the grasslands until they find somewhere they can settle down. However, they also have a more sinister side.
If an animal wanders into the midst of a patch of Stinging Indigos, they will quickly begin to live up to their name. Sensing the nearby movement with their sensitive leaves, they will immediately swivel to face the disturbance and begin firing their venomous barbs into it. Alone, each barb only delivers a tiny amount of venom, just enough to cause a bit of an itch, but in a patch of several thousand members, the dose of neurotoxin they deliver can overwhelm even a relatively large animal.
As soon as the animal collapses, the Indigos will swarm it, stabbing their barbs into it and draining its blood, providing them with extra nutrients and energy. Once the corpse has been drained dry, they will settle down to digest their meal. After making a kill, they tend to stay in the same location for a few days, though not hesitating to bring down any other animals which approach them. Herbivores are often attracted by their sweet scent, and carnivores by the smell of their kills. Once animals stop approaching them, or once the corpses pile so high that the Indigos’ light is blocked, or sometimes due to other reasons, they will move on. The carcasses decompose behind them, so they leave rich, fertile deposits of soil wherever they go.
Indigos reproduce by crawling over to another of their kind and inserting a pollen covered tendril into the middle of their flower to fertilize it. The plant sending out the tendril, which is a combined stamen and carpel, is fertilized as well in the process. This usually occurs in early summer. Once fertilized, the flower withers away and becomes a seedpod, which, in the late summer, will burst, scattering its seeds. The mother plant will bury these using her roots and leave them. They will lie dormant over the autumn and winter before sprouting in the spring as miniature versions of their parents and banding together with nearby juvenile Stinging Indigos to form their own patch.

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