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(Oozetree with Flying Ooze)

Name: Oozetree
Neobubbleweed Symbioozus
Ancestor: Bubblebush
Habitat: Lemmings Temperate Mangal, Vonnegut Temperate Woodland Archipelago, Vonnegut Bush Archipelago, Vonnegut Prairie Archipelago
Diet: Detrivore, Photosynthesis
Size: 3 meters tall
Support: Lignified Stem, Hydrogen-filled Bubbles
Respiration: Unknown
Thermoregulation: Unknown
Reproduction: Asexual, Seeds

The Oozetree has split off from its descendant, the Bubblebush, making its way to the Vonnegut region and forming a symbiotic relationship with the Flying Ooze.

The Oozetree produces a chemical that makes it unappetizing and inedible to the Oozes, but the Flying Ooze makes its home among its branches. The Oozetree provides a place for the Flying Ooze to attach itself to, which spreads out like a spider web or glue trap between its branches, catching small organisms to feed upon.

In return, the Flying Ooze aids the Oozetree with seed dispersal. The Oozetree's stem has begun the process of lignification. It now forms the seedbubble at the base of the leaves instead of at the top. Each year after reaching adulthood, the Oozetree loses its leaves, exposing its seedbubbles, and making it easier for the Flying Oozes to get to them.

The exposed seedbubbles slowly leak hydrogen as they dry out, causing the branch to droop. Dried seedbubbles have a similar appearance and taste to raisins.



The Flying Ooze splits itself into pseudopods that wrap themselves around the dried bubbleseeds. The additional weight causes the dried seedbubble to fall to the ground, but not before the Flying Ooze opens up like a parachute. The Flying ooze catches the wind, and the ooze/seed pair drift on the wind to a new location.

Once landed the Flying Ooze will cover the Oozetree seed, and the energy from any small organisms it captures will be split between itself and the seed until it grows large enough for the Flying Ooze to start hanging from it branches. After five years, the Oozetree will reach adulthood and the process will begin anew.

I believe there is already a group of species by that name. Also, this looks more like a vesuvianite tree colored purple than like the bubblebush. I can't tell if those are supposed to be weird degenerated bubbles or the actual leaves, but either way it is anatomically incorrect. It is also missing the segmentation of the stem.

It is impossible to lose the bubbles without losing the seeds. The bubbles ARE the seeds. This is explicit in its ancestors, which despite my strong insistence you refused to read.

This is missing size. I doubt it can support itself with a still-purple unlignified stem alone even if it shrunk, though. It needs to transition in order to start supporting itself without bubbles. This is in the rules.

Just the mention on the topic of wood and large plants,

Bananas are an example of a large plant lacking densely lignified dead or alive tissue (wood), and a photosynthetic surface does not mean the inside lacks wood, just means it lacks protective bark and dries out more easily.

These are definitely soft.

QUOTE (colddigger @ Aug 11 2022, 01:50 AM)

Just the mention on the topic of wood and large plants, Bananas are an example of a large plant lacking densely lignified dead or alive tissue (wood), and a photosynthetic surface does not mean the inside lacks wood, just means it lacks protective bark and dries out more easily. These are definitely soft.

To be fair, bananas also don’t branch much and are roughly columnar, plus, this lineage has overall relied at least somewhat on the bubbles for a long, long time, who’s to say they do have the adaptations to hold themselves up with an unlignified body?

Also, the image is literally an edit of a vesuvianite tree to some extent I’m pretty sure, which seems…rather possible to be a bad thing, but I’m not an expert.

Bananas also have a fibrous wrapping growth habit rather than a solid stalk.

Another example can be the leaf of a titan arum.

The description at this point does say it's begun increasing it's lignin, which isn't an all or nothing situation, I do think that it needs to be quite fibrous for those branches though.

It would be worth redrawing to have a more unique form.

This post has been edited by colddigger: Aug 11 2022, 04:30 PM

Wait a minute, how did this get to Vonnegut? The ancestor isn't even found in the same hemisphere.

from: Bubblebush
"Like all bubbleweed the hydrogen-filled seed bubbles help them spread far in the air or water currents."

I guess Vonnegut is too far?

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Aug 12 2022, 01:02 PM)

Wait a minute, how did this get to Vonnegut? The ancestor isn't even found in the same hemisphere.

Yeah, that is too far. It can ONLY have a range that's connected to the ancestor's range.

In Beta a more distant biome might be allowed by flyway rules, but that's too far even for a flyway.

@HethrJarrod I'm going ahead and rejecting this, as it cannot be made acceptable without an overhaul at which point it will be a different submission entirely.

Reasoning:
- Completely disconnected habitat - no possible exceptions would allow it to travel that far. Switching to its native range makes its adaptations no longer make sense.
- Artwork is anatomically wrong for its lineage and is clearly just an edited illustration of a vesuvianite tree. Bits of color from the vesuvianite illustration underneath it is even still visible. A complete redraw would be needed to fix it.
- Several of the features I feel need some elaboration, especially how reproductive structures got to a completely different part of the organism's body, but I suspect this will result in you basically remaking the organism anyway, at which point, just resubmit it.
- It appears that its partner submission has has mention of it removed anyway.