Questions tagged [flora]
For questions related to plants and vegetation in general.
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how can my exploding fungus/plant explode?
So, this is another part in a lot of my questions for something I'm making. Our protagonists are unfortunately stuck on an alien planet. They end up going into a cave, which is a bad idea because some ...
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How could someone alter the composition of air sufficiently so that plant life gets more nutrients and grows faster
Im writing a story about a group of eco-terrorists who are trying to make the flora of a planet take over major cities and create a utopian wasteland. They have access to a macguffin that can alter ...
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What could/would change if plants absorbed #% of sunlight? [closed]
I am wondering what could/would happen if plants absorbed respectively 50%, 75%, and 90% of sunlight during the process of photosynthesis.
That's all,
Thank you in advance.
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Could a world be dominated by white seas?
I have this idea for a world orbiting a type O star, a particularly active kind of star producing intense radiation. As a form of adaptation, the microbial life has become bright white so to reflect ...
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What sort of materials could be used to make clothing in a swamp?
We have some characters living in a wetland biome (freshwater swamp, specifically) without access to trade from other areas. What kinds of options do they have when it comes to using the natural ...
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What Would it take for Trees with Stone Core to be Self Supporting?
So I have an idea for a biome in which avian humanoids are the dominant intelligent lifeform. They live inside of trees that dwarf the redwoods of our world. The trees grow so tall and so thick (akin ...
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The Earth is our Moon - A Reality check for a Binary Planet System [closed]
This question is connected to another one I asked about Interstellar Transport Vehicles, but more concerned about what we could expect from a Binary Planet System.
So I want to talk about a few major ...
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Plants Without Air
On a distant world, the atmosphere is different than ours - there is no oxygen but a high level of C02 like on Mars or the early Earth. This planet is otherwise similar to Earth but slightly warmer. ...
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How would a human be affected if plant DNA was injected into their system?
My question is if a human were to have plant DNA, such as that from a flower, injected into their bloodstream would this have a negative or positive effect on their health? Or would it not affect them ...
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Could tree-sized mushrooms grow on an Earth-like world?
OK so this world I'm building has Earth-like flora and fauna, along with being around the size of Earth and being around the same distance as Earth from a star the size of the sun. The atmosphere is ...
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What would be the ecological impact of short days in summer and long days in winter?
While working on the cosmology of a flat world, I came up with a satisfactory arrangement that would result in the following:
Summer: Short, hot days and long, dark, hot nights.
Winter: Long, cold ...
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Kinetically powered plant
This contributor to Deviantart had this idea that on eyeball Earths some plants might grow in the shadow of bigger plants and get energy from the wind, like a naturally occurring wind turbine.
My ...
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How do hardy flowering plants that thrive in low 'g' and thin atmosphere disseminate their seeds?
Imagine a type of flowering plant capable of growing on terrestrial planet with surface gravity a tenth of Earth and it has a thin atmosphere with composition similar to Earth's but as thick as ...
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Can you naturally grow houses?
I'm Worldbuilding, and in my world, people can grow houses from seeds. My world is not a Fantasy one. Could this theoretically work, and if so, how?
(Images by Finnian MacManus)
To start the growth ...
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Where do Brambles/Briars/Thickets Grow?
I'd like to have a region in my world be a predominately hilly, karst style (so lots of limestone) area that has a predominance of thick, dense thickets, brambles and shrubs.
So my question is, what ...
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Could a fungus fuse itself to a living creature and how could the creature pass this on?
Behold, a crocodile. The only thing that they have to worry about is hunger when they cannot catch a meal, and camouflage that is better than the eyes of their prey. What if a species of mushroom ...
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Plant bioforming for use around Jupiter
I'm sketching out a scenario for a relatively far-futuristic story wherein humans have spread throughout the solar system, using the extreme ends of bioforming and gene-splicing to supplement their ...
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What organs or modification needed to have tree that gain energy from lightning or electricity?
As the title: I want to know what kind of organs or modifications need for plants like tree to gain energy from lightning or electricity (and still fine or safe or alive of course).
Since I have a ...
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What would the biology of magic plants that get their energy through pure darkness look like?
In a world just like our own, one day, everything turned dark. Literally, as the planet was consumed by near-total darkness, the clouds turning black and allow little to no natural sunlight through ...
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Water & Nutrient Cycle of an upside down forest
This is a follow up question to Sky of Earth and Seas of Sky
I have a medieval fantasy setting where people live in a vast expanse of giant caves contained in a sort of giant Stanford torus. This is ...
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What would a thicker atmosphere do to plant growth/evolution?
I'm working on a concept for a habitable world with venus-like atmospheric pressures, where humans have settled onto huge tabletop mountains where the atmosphere isn't as crushing. This is a ...
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Would Chemosynthetic plants have any reason to grow tall?
I have a planet too far away from its sun for photosynthesis to work well, so the plants use chemosynthesis. But since they don't use sunlight, would they have any reason to grow above ground? Some ...
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What adaptations would a tree need to survive an area with monthly fires?
Imagine a plain made of tall grass that sways in a gentle breeze. Everything is a deep green and there is a riot of life sprouting from the black ground. A few days later, the grasses turn brown and ...
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How can a rogue planet get energy for plants to use?
This rogue planet is a cold rocky world where liquid methane replaces water, hydrogen is used in place of oxygen, and a large moon.
I was thinking the large moon would have a large tidal pull that ...
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What are the consequences of an earth overgrown with plants?? [closed]
Imagine if humans solved the climate crisis by developing plants that grew almost like a cancer. Imagine the growth as exponential, uncontrollable, and any chances of cutting down the trees would be ...
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When earth is filled to the brim with plant-life, can it cause a hyperoxic environment?
Say humans found a way to exponentially increase the capability of plants to grow. Is it possible for it to cause an environment that can cause oxygen toxicity in humans?
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Would a Jungle survive in a highly volcanic area?
I have an idea for a region of the world I am working on, and I'm not sure how realistic it is.
Basically, the area is an equatorial jungle, closely bordering the ocean on one side. As a result there ...
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What types of flora would flourish on a tidally-locked moon?
My world is a satellite of a gas giant. It has an atmosphere and is mostly covered by water (the percentage of water to its surface is somewhere in the high 80s-low 90s). Its rotation period is 28 ...
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Why would a tree species grow very large in what is a very windy environment?
In my fictional world, the planet has some very strong winds that regularly blow across large areas of land. In this world, however, very large, tall trees grow (the reason for the size of the tree is ...
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If an entire forest was pulled together into one “grafted tree” by the use of Demi-god worthy magic, what would that tree be like? [closed]
In my world, Yggdralon Trees are absolutely massive trees that were once vast forests. Tales claim that they were created by the Demi-gods. They pulled the forests around them and wrapped the trees ...
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Where can you find berries that eat people from the inside out?
My low-fantasy setting features the deadly plant known as the wormberry. It produces small berries of a bright-but-overall-undecided color, all of which contain a small, edible seed. They have two ...
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Could Long, Dense Walls of “Megamangroves” Deflect The Deadliest of Storms?
This is the world's tallest tree--the coast redwood. It can grow as high up as 115.5 meters. Any taller, and the transportation of water in its vascular tissues would not climb all the way.
But in ...
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Without powered greenhouses or trade, what's the coldest possible climate for a sustainable nation?
In a setting where an empire establishes an island colony far to the north, what is the coldest climate such a colony could sustainably survive were that empire to collapse and stop sending supply ...
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Could a marine plant have a salt-filtration system for when plants suck up the sea-water (providing a source of fresh water?)?
In a world I want to make, sailors would travel at sea for many years, perhaps up to ten, on sail boats. Obviously, they'd normally be stricken by scurvy and such, but I was thinking of some kind of "...
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How much energy would be needed for a sentient plant species
Let’s say humanity is a type 1 civilization, ( essentially a civilization that can control there entire planet and harness its energy ), now let’s also say humanity wants to make an intelligent ...
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What modifications are needed to have tree that can create hurricane/cyclone around it?
I don't know much about hurricane/cyclone and how to created it (nor know the difference much, so bear with me if i make mistake), so I want to know what kind of plant organs or ability need to ...
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What modifications are needed to have plants that can grow and survive in a world of sugar and sweetness?
What modification would a plant — especially tree — develop in a world where everything is made of sugar, caramel, cake, syrup, soda, etc.?
Think of something like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, or ...
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How to make a self-sustaining necropolis?
My living friends. I'm a Lich, a wizard that became a undead and obtained immortality, I am looking to build a necropolis for me to be its king, I chose a distant city to turn it's inabitants into ...
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Planet With Higher Atmospheric Pressure
Consider a planet with Earth like gravity but an atmosphere that is 10x what Earth has at sea level (atmospheric composition is equivalent to Earth). If the vegetation is similar to Earth's, would the ...
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Planet with only plant-based life and very thick atmosphere [closed]
Working hypothesis is as follows:
Solar system with an A class sun.
Planet has a very thick atmosphere which does not allow much visible light in to the surface. (Like dusk in the day time and ...
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How to explain a planet around a K-Type star with Orange/Red/Purple plants?
Basically, in a sci-fi roleplaying group I am apart of, I have began to work on a long-standing human colony world. The tech-level is pretty much bog-standard sci-fi, and such, colonisation is ...
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what organs or modification needed to have plants that drink liquid blood?
so in my world the rivers and lakes (not sure about the sea yet) are made of blood that'll never dry up. The blood maybe fresh or not (I still haven’t decided yet,probably both anyway) i also haven’t ...
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Can a planet with blue glowing plants exist?
I have a planet where I want all plants to be blue and glowing. I was thinking that they could use something other than light for energy. I want the plants to always glow. The atmosphere is basically ...
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Can these climates/biomes exist near each other?
I am writing a story, in which I would like to have three locations within about a half hour to an hour driving distance (assuming population, road systems and automobiles on par with the contemporary ...
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Planet with only plant life?
Is it possible for there to be a planet where no animals, only plants existed? What evolutionary reasons would cause this, if possible?
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How to have hollows with complex plant and animal life on a planet
This is a slight continuation of my other post where I was trying to create realistic hollows with weather due to temperature changes due to bio minerals called Hearthstones. I was wondering if plant ...
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Question regarding plant based poison for a short story
For a story I'm writing, I'm looking for an undetectable plant based poison that if ingested in a miniscule amount, would make a ten year old boy sick: intrinsic muscle weakness, stunted growth, and ...
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Internal chemistry of a melon bomb
I am a giant, intelligent, fortress-like, plant-based organism, able to forge many structures, defenses and organisms from my flesh by altering my own DNA and rapidly growing new constructs whenever ...
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Where do producers get nutrients in an airborne ecology?
So I'm designing a world where the air has its own ecosystem, separate from the one on the land, because sky whales are cool. However, I'm having trouble figuring out what the plants and other ...
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What modification would make literal fire trees be able to grow?
To help imagine it and my inspiration, it's basically similar to pictures from Abrahamic religions with burning trees like this one. They can't speak though, they are just trees or plants that are ...
