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The palipus plant
Found near the beaches of Skarpticus’s vast deserts are massive palipus plants. These plants spend their entire lives gathering water into their giant spike-covered sac, retaining it and slowly drinking it to survive. Once pollinated, the plant will begin to grow its massive pod-like fruits. When the fruit matures, the plant violently contracts its spiky reservoir, causing all of its collected water to rush into the fruit. The sudden change of pressure causes the hard shells to crack open, revealing the fleshy innards for all to feast upon. This action kills the plant in the process, leaving the fate of its fruit in the hands of whatever may stumble across it.
Its entire existence relies on being so nourishing that it keeps whatever eats it alive long enough to eat it again. It needs something to consume its seeds and deposit them in manure elsewhere.










Luckily for this plant, species of herbivores (haven’t properly thought them up yet) travel in herds to fields of palipus plants during their mating season, which falls around the time where many plants are ready to burst.
So in return for the animals carrying their seeds elsewhere, the plants nourishes them. It also has an aphrodisiac effect that helps them mate.
Because it takes so long to regrow a new plant, palipus pods can be found in various stages of development all across the shoreline.
yummy banana
Eat my big disgusting banana from space
that description of the plant and how it actually behaves was way too specific
what kinda mad science experimental lab you got in your basement
also
Growing my crazy alien fruits in my basement. I’m like Frankenstein but I’m not German or smart.
Thank you though. I’m a big biology nerd at heart and I love world building so I try to think a lot of these things out