Questions tagged [flora]
For questions related to plants and vegetation in general.
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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 ...
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Uses of common and cheap diamonds [closed]
Inspired by this question, I've wondered how it would world look, if those diamond berries were real.
Let's assume in my fantasy world of XVII/XVIII IRL technology have one species of plant that have ...
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Tree Shape on a Tidally Locked World
I'm designing a tidally locked world around a red dwarf star. The habitable ring is an Earth analogue. The atmosphere and gravity are similar to Earth's, and we're going to pretend the wind is ...
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Sustainability of Regular Global Wildfires Due to Oxygen Rich Atmosphere
So, I've heard that above around 35% O2 concentration in Earth-like atmospheres leads to wildfires that just never go out.
I'm thinking of using this like California, with its regularly occuring ...
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Futrinka street and the plausiblity of comfortably habitable giant-pumpkin houses
So, there was this pupet show about two characters, Mazsola and Tádé. They lived in a BIG pumpkin, that had been hollowed out and repurposed as a house.
It looked something like this. Now, I kinda ...
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How tall could a fictional cactus species realistically grow?
I had an idea for a new world that included cactus forests, with cactuses the size of a giant sequoia. Is this realistic?
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Mega fauna and flora on a super earth
I am working on a super-earth, about 1.5 more massive than Earth. On this planet, there's a large variety of megafauna and flora across the world. The biggest trees over there can grow to be 36 meters ...
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Bryophitic Plants in an Underwater Forest
By "bryophitic", I mean "non-vascular land plants", being the liverworts and the mosses. (Hornworts are comparative latecomers, so we won't be talking about them.) Without vascular tissues, these ...
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What Star would encourage what color of plants? or, a table of star types to the most efficient plant color [duplicate]
Using the following list of stars, what color is the most efficient for plants to absorb the ideal amount of energy?
(This is not a complete list of star types, just some big examples)
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Are continent wide forest fires possible?
The setting I have in mind is an Earth-similar planet which has most of its landmass covered in forests. A civil conflict on this planet ingnites forests fires, which then spread. I was wondering if ...
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Would it be possible to survive on a world with only plants?
If you were air dropped onto another planet, where multi-cellular non-plant life did not evolve, could you survive on what was only around you? The planet in question is a clone of earth, in almost ...
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Would 5 years be long enough for a small society to start producing a surplus of food?
Would a community of around 300 people be able to start producing plentiful food in ~5 years post a civil war and plague?
They were an isolated quite wealthy community, in a sub-tropical area, mainly ...
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Tall trees : atmospheric pressure
In my previous post, I asked about how tall trees could grow in my world. To be honest, I really need those trees to be huge for my storie, because a big part of the plot will be linked to those big ...
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How much energy do plants produce?
Consider a magic system that follows the Eragon model; "doing it by magic takes just as much (biological) energy as doing it the mundane way".
In Eragon, magical energy can be drawn from other living ...
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How tall would animals, trees and “humans” grow on a planet with those characteristics?
I am working on a planet were life (trees, plants, food, animals, humans) would be bigger/taller than Earth. I have learned that oxygen level or gravity, for example, could help change the size of ...
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Hanging World - Trees
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A civilization is living on an ancient super structure, they don't know much about it, they just live there and have lived there for as long as they know. For our current situation we can ...
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Designing flora: placing herbs
So I have noticed that most herbs come from the Mediterranean as confirmed by this site and those that do not often come from either actual Mediterranean climates or somewhat arid ones.
So my ...
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Another Giant Tree Attempt
I want to propose a new method for tree growth to exceed the max of 120 or 130 meters restricted by Earth's gravity. I propose for the tree to rely very little on its base or roots. The living part of ...
