Flora
Flora is both the name for a bank about plants and a name for the plant life that occurs in your world. Plants can be grouped into Flora's for a particular region. Flora should be non-sapient. Create an encyclopedia that includes a selection of Flora from your world, seperate your Flora into four groups:
- Native Flora: Indigenous species
- Agricultural and Garden Flora: Modified varities created by a sapient species.
- Weed Flora: Species that are considered pests, unwanted or invasive.
- Bacterial Flora: Bacteria
Consider including plants that are useful in aiding your civilisations either in providing material for basic neccessities such as shelter, clothing, food and water. You may also want to include extinct plants, hostile plants or plants that have medicinal values as well as plants that can provide material for industry in the use of machines and weapons.
If you enjoy this section, consider delving further into the Ecosystems of your world.
In your encyclopedia consider including sketches or pictures of your various Flora species. Describe the appearance of the plants as well as their natural habitat, native location, other locations if taken outside of the natural habitat, size, any beneficial properties, method of pollination, natural predators and any defensive behaviours.
As part of the mapping project for your world, you may want to include a map that shows where certain flora groups are found. Where there are many resources, its quite possible that a small Civilisation will rise.
The name Flora also is the name for a book containing information on plants.
Entry in the Flora of Jacmus
(Example)
Flora Species Name: La'edinoqi -rjokre Warrocn
Common Name: Warla
Type of Flora: Native
Description: Warla grows by the road side in Northern Tun'isja. It is a thin long purplish-gray grass that clumps in thick bushes. The grass is often used for weaving and can be stripped down first into thinner pieces before it is platted together to form a sheet of soft durable cloth.
Native Location: Northern Tun'isja
Size: A single grass blade grows up to 3 metres tall and 2-3 centimetres wide and less than a millimetre thick.
Beneficial Properties: Warla is also used a healing tea and can either be ingested or inhaled. Side effect include mild hulicinations and sleepiness.
Method of pollination: Warla is destinctly male or female. Male Warla has purple light flower that is extremely light and soft. A female Warla has large bulbous white flowers, like a lilly its weight bends the Warla blades over so that the lillys act like a cup to catch the Male Warla flowers when they detach and float downward.
Natural predators: Local sapient species use the plant for medicinal and spiritual purposes other fauna also find chewing the blades of warla to have a calming and nourishing effect.
Defensive behaviours: The warla blades have tiny spikes on its edges. These can cause painful stinging surface cuts which can become infected with the pollen and lead to blood poisoning.
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