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Noodleaves (Solisodalicium catenacohors)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Flopleaves
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Krakow Tropical Beach
Size: 5-10 cm long (Individual), 25-150 cm long (Colony)
Support: Flexible Exoskeleton / Cell Wall (Cellulose)
Diet: Photosynthesis, Detritivore
Respiration: Passive (Stomata)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Alternating Hermaphrodite, Seed-Like Eggs)

During the nitrogen crash, their ancestors experienced extremes of nutrition and starvation. Large fields of flopleaves would flood the horizon to feed on the decayed matter only to starve out and be replaced by barren land. To overcome this, social flopleaves were able to raise themselves above the rest. By anchoring their roots into each other, they were able to share water and nutrition from the ground and sugars from photosynthesis.

This eventually led to the colonial form, the Noodleaves. Local to Krakow Island, they were able to nearly replace their ancestors within their territory. Each Noodleaf can be made of anywhere between 5 to 15 Individuals, all siblings of the same age and parents. Along the chain, each noodleaf zooid will interlock its 4 leaves with the 4 root branches of the zooid in front of it, creating a "handshake". Inside the handshake, a pool of sap acts as both a reserve and a resource exchange between the pores of the lower zoid and the roots of the one on top of it. While any zooid with sun exposure along its stalk generates some sugars from photosynthesis, the frontmost "flowering zooid" produces the most, and likewise, while any zooid with ground contact touching the exposed roots of its "handshake" will take in some ground nutrition, the last "tail zoid" takes in most of the nutrition. Using their combined strength they can dig their burrows and access deeper sources of nutrition on one end, out-compete other flora for the sun on the other, use their shared pools of resources to travel further on their journey, and seek better grounds by combining their nervous systems and comparing levels of sun exposure, forming a very basic form of vision which they use to avoid shadows, track the sun throughout the day and determine the time of day. During the nighttime, they will roll into their borrows. Only when in pain they will disband, at a great cost of resources that is only slightly less costly than death, after which they will seek each other out by pheromones and touch.

At any given time each Noodleaf is either fraternal or sororal, all male or all female. When they are ready to mate, fraternal Noodleaves will close their flowering zooids and seek sororal noodleaves to rub their heads against, often requiring that they will be able to reach the same height or crawl along the sororal Noodleaf's stalk. Once mated, the fraternal Noodleaf will seek a new burrow in which it will transform into a sororal Noodleaf, while the sororal Noodleaf will grow full seeds and seek out new territory where she will dig multiple small burrows each with several seedlings, after which she will dig a new burrow of her own where she will transform into a fraternal Noodleaf.

Slow down a bit, there was a bit of an issue the last time someone posted a whole bunch of stuff in a day.