I don't know where people get this from but it's not true, the algae in the ocean are not plants. But 80-90% of the total biomass on Earth is on land because of plants.
Some plants, like tomatoes, use pheromones to prevent other plants from growing near them. I heard that plants like limes make anything that rubs against the oily rinds more photosensitive, thus causing the area of contact to burn and blister. Rainbow Eucalyptus just looks cool, looking like they were painted. Remember the potential for attractive foliage, as people like to decorate with plants just as much as we like to eat them or use them for medicine/poision. Never think that fiction is stranger than fact because it rarely ever is.
In my world there are parts of it that have no sunlight all year round but plants still grow in geothermaly active areas and are pale cyan as they get the majority of their radiation energy for photosynthesis through inferred radiation and microwaves.
Here in Arizona we have a plant called little dodder or dessert dodder. It is a bright red parasitic vine that completely entangles its victims. What makes it different that it isn't stuck with just one host. Once it kills of one of its hosts it sends out viney tendrils that craw across the ground in search of the plants next food source.
This video came at the perfect time! I was working on a specific plant and having trouble figuring out if I had it believable or not. Thank you so much for the tips! Now I gotta go back and redo some of my others.
Amply mushroom is a cultuvated plant armor, where the mushroom head is with the use of magic grown to become armor. What makes this mushroom so special is that the head can life 30 years after it is removed from the plant, and as it can get its nutriance from the air, is it cabelpe of regeneration As the people who uses it is now invading another dimesion is Amply following them. Because the people population grows exstreamly fast the mushroom does to. After the mushroom head dies will it become fetulesios for the seeds it was caring making it an invasive species, that is known by the other demision as The Black Death as it out compite local plants, kills of local animals and poisions the water
This is so detailed and in depth! I love that they are an invasive species, which makes sense considered with how prolific they are. Have you made this into an article? I'd really like to read more about this or anything in your world
The poison in tobacco and coffee didn't backfire in the broader sense. Humans became addicted so the number of tobacco and coffee plants is probably far greater now than before we started consuming them. Bad for the individual plant - good for the species' survival overall.
but its not to improve the species numbers it's for us to consume, Its like being forced to breed in slavery. bred, harvested, consumed...rinse repeat.
The weird thing about tobacco is the overall family of plants it comes from, and some of it's related species. These species are all part of the nightshade family, along with deadly nightshade, potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, and chili peppers. And the latter has the strange fact only humans & birds eat them.
I loved this video. Great content and presentation. I would like to add the key to plant nutrition is air! Plants are taking CO2 from the air and water through root and body to create those carbohydrates. Sunlight is the energy that makes this process work, but it's immaterial. The composition, quality and availability of air is crucial for plant life and vice versa. Hard to imagine at times but even the largest trees are made from air, not from earth.
I made a creature that isn't exactly a plant, but it does fill a similar ecological niche. It uses the seismic energy, to grow. On areas with low tectonic activity, they are flat and small, but in tectonically active areas, they could gain truly large sizes. Mana also help them grow. They also require a lot of salts to survive, and are almost exclusively all halophiles. This clad lacks any sun protection, and usually gets it from other organisms or by living in very shadowy environments such as ocean trenches or caverns. It has a defense mechanism that causes it to cancel out the pleasure and pain-soothing hormones in vertebrates as well as producing an agonizing burning sensation. Usually, a certain level of heat and acidity would cancel out it's toxins. These toxins also have the ability to go through the mucous parts of the skin such as inside of the mouth and the privates. If an animal has a rather high stomach PH, the toxins would get trapped inside the tissues of the animal. This clade of plant-like stuff are key-stone species as they produce oxygen in environments that would otherwise be devoid of it. They are also important symbiotes. However, humanoid species such as drows, dwarves and mer people exploit the properties of this clade to there benefit. Drows have partially domesticated it and use it for lactic acid conservation, a way to feed triglobites and as a source of salt and vitamin C. As their stomach PH is higher than the human one, they are more sensitive to it's toxic effect. However, since their survival depends on them consuming it, they are willing to suffer through it and many have developed a physical dependency on this toxin. Dwarves and merpeople on the other hand use it exclusively as a torture instrument. These clades reproduce asexually through division, and they usually wait till an insect try to cut them up, and the surviving left-overs go on to create new organisms.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it~! Do you have any plants you have worldbuilt? I'd love to give it (or any one of your articles) a read :) !
My “plant” survives off volcanic activity. the layer of magma in the region covers this plant in a interesting way it grows a wall from the crystals it makes. The inside of the crystal has a magic potent effect around it this warns the would be eaters to back off and if they don’t it fires tiny shards of crystals with poison in them. There are no leaves on this plant but a very thick layer of magma wraps this plant to the very tip of it.
I'm still trying to develop my plant like entities on my world. But what I have so far is that they blur the line between plants and animals. They are descended from an ancient species of worm that colonized land and had a symbiosis with some kind of algae.
Just now seeing this vid so I could try to imagine plants that will be made for consumption. Could try making like different kinds of medicinal/ herbal plants one day, but for now this is mainly for making ingredients from a fantasy/ dream bar. Am also looking into how certain drinks are made to further the research 😅
@@WorldAnvil well for now I just of the alternative of sugar in this "world" and it's called fairy dust. The sugar comes from reeds that are found near the land of the faes and depending on the reaction to the drink, it could either give dreams or nightmares (sweet=dream, bitter/sour=nightmare). Also this thing I'm planning on making is actually a mix of a solo ttrpg and a fanfic. And I did get some inspo from Last Tea Shop, and maybe a bit of Tavern Talk
I dont plan to write, but an idea popped in my head that i couldnt just leave there, so as they say if you wanna write just do it. So here i am flowing down the river because i thought, fuck it jellyfish-plant stone forest biome, with clouded mountain wolfes, and sap sipper ardvark. Im adding giant carnivorous plants now. I need some sorta parrot fish equivalent...
I literally have a trampoline plant that has a giant roudn bouncy fruit which is very fragile, after you bounce a few times on it the fruit will explode & spread the seeds everywhere.
You're right! Most plants need the trifecta of water, soil, and sun. However, the spider plant can actually grow without soil! It is considered an "air plant" because of how it is adapted to live in arid climates. It doesn't need soil to survive--just water. A friend of mine actually had one and just spritzed it with water once everyday. It was wild. Are there any plants you have made for your world that survive in strange ways--maybe even MOVE?
One of the basis for the game Space 1889 is the Liftwood plant. Essential for the economy of both Mars and Earth but only to be found at high altitudes where barbaric Martians live. So many plots revolve around this plant.
Did you know, 85% of plant life is found in the ocean? I find that mindblowing. :D
I don't know where people get this from but it's not true, the algae in the ocean are not plants. But 80-90% of the total biomass on Earth is on land because of plants.
Some plants, like tomatoes, use pheromones to prevent other plants from growing near them. I heard that plants like limes make anything that rubs against the oily rinds more photosensitive, thus causing the area of contact to burn and blister. Rainbow Eucalyptus just looks cool, looking like they were painted. Remember the potential for attractive foliage, as people like to decorate with plants just as much as we like to eat them or use them for medicine/poision. Never think that fiction is stranger than fact because it rarely ever is.
My favorite plant fact is the weird symbiotic relationship between people, coffee, and Asian palm civets.
Not every species gets to ride the Anthropocene to new heights, but for Asian Palm Civets, the stars are the limit.
🤣 Gives new meaning to "coffee that tastes like s&!t" - right? 😜
What?
In my world there are parts of it that have no sunlight all year round but plants still grow in geothermaly active areas and are pale cyan as they get the majority of their radiation energy for photosynthesis through inferred radiation and microwaves.
Here in Arizona we have a plant called little dodder or dessert dodder. It is a bright red parasitic vine that completely entangles its victims. What makes it different that it isn't stuck with just one host. Once it kills of one of its hosts it sends out viney tendrils that craw across the ground in search of the plants next food source.
Woah, that sounds like a horror movie! 😱 Good thing these vines don't grow fast enough to entangle a person :P
This video came at the perfect time! I was working on a specific plant and having trouble figuring out if I had it believable or not. Thank you so much for the tips! Now I gotta go back and redo some of my others.
How did you fare with your foliage foibles friend
Amply mushroom is a cultuvated plant armor, where the mushroom head is with the use of magic grown to become armor. What makes this mushroom so special is that the head can life 30 years after it is removed from the plant, and as it can get its nutriance from the air, is it cabelpe of regeneration
As the people who uses it is now invading another dimesion is Amply following them. Because the people population grows exstreamly fast the mushroom does to. After the mushroom head dies will it become fetulesios for the seeds it was caring making it an invasive species, that is known by the other demision as The Black Death as it out compite local plants, kills of local animals and poisions the water
This is so detailed and in depth! I love that they are an invasive species, which makes sense considered with how prolific they are. Have you made this into an article? I'd really like to read more about this or anything in your world
Looking at Ammophila grass-blades under a Microscope reveals a ton of smileys in their cross-section.
The poison in tobacco and coffee didn't backfire in the broader sense. Humans became addicted so the number of tobacco and coffee plants is probably far greater now than before we started consuming them. Bad for the individual plant - good for the species' survival overall.
but its not to improve the species numbers it's for us to consume, Its like being forced to breed in slavery. bred, harvested, consumed...rinse repeat.
The weird thing about tobacco is the overall family of plants it comes from, and some of it's related species. These species are all part of the nightshade family, along with deadly nightshade, potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, and chili peppers. And the latter has the strange fact only humans & birds eat them.
I loved this video. Great content and presentation. I would like to add the key to plant nutrition is air! Plants are taking CO2 from the air and water through root and body to create those carbohydrates. Sunlight is the energy that makes this process work, but it's immaterial. The composition, quality and availability of air is crucial for plant life and vice versa. Hard to imagine at times but even the largest trees are made from air, not from earth.
Great points! The composition of your world's atmosphere will probably change how plants work or how they look!
I made a creature that isn't exactly a plant, but it does fill a similar ecological niche. It uses the seismic energy, to grow. On areas with low tectonic activity, they are flat and small, but in tectonically active areas, they could gain truly large sizes. Mana also help them grow. They also require a lot of salts to survive, and are almost exclusively all halophiles. This clad lacks any sun protection, and usually gets it from other organisms or by living in very shadowy environments such as ocean trenches or caverns. It has a defense mechanism that causes it to cancel out the pleasure and pain-soothing hormones in vertebrates as well as producing an agonizing burning sensation. Usually, a certain level of heat and acidity would cancel out it's toxins. These toxins also have the ability to go through the mucous parts of the skin such as inside of the mouth and the privates. If an animal has a rather high stomach PH, the toxins would get trapped inside the tissues of the animal.
This clade of plant-like stuff are key-stone species as they produce oxygen in environments that would otherwise be devoid of it. They are also important symbiotes. However, humanoid species such as drows, dwarves and mer people exploit the properties of this clade to there benefit.
Drows have partially domesticated it and use it for lactic acid conservation, a way to feed triglobites and as a source of salt and vitamin C. As their stomach PH is higher than the human one, they are more sensitive to it's toxic effect. However, since their survival depends on them consuming it, they are willing to suffer through it and many have developed a physical dependency on this toxin. Dwarves and merpeople on the other hand use it exclusively as a torture instrument.
These clades reproduce asexually through division, and they usually wait till an insect try to cut them up, and the surviving left-overs go on to create new organisms.
I absolutely loved this one! It gave me ideas not only for my world building, but for creating a character as well!
🤩😍 Thank you so much for letting me know! What ideas did it inspire?
@@WorldAnvil the one I'm most excited about is a funghi-inspired warlock patron that will basically reward warlocks who spread their seeds.
As always, a delightful topic that hasn't occurred to me to think about. Wonderful job Janet! Thank you world anvil team!
I'm so happy it helped you! 😍
Thank you!! I’ve been wanting to work on this
😊 Happy to help ❤!
6:47 Jesus christ! Cordyceps fungus is terrifying!
Exactly what I needed, thank you!
I'm so glad to hear that - thank YOU 😊!
Very well done! I am impressed. This is excellent advice. Thanks.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it~! Do you have any plants you have worldbuilt? I'd love to give it (or any one of your articles) a read :) !
My “plant” survives off volcanic activity. the layer of magma in the region covers this plant in a interesting way it grows a wall from the crystals it makes. The inside of the crystal has a magic potent effect around it this warns the would be eaters to back off and if they don’t it fires tiny shards of crystals with poison in them. There are no leaves on this plant but a very thick layer of magma wraps this plant to the very tip of it.
I'm still trying to develop my plant like entities on my world.
But what I have so far is that they blur the line between plants and animals. They are descended from an ancient species of worm that colonized land and had a symbiosis with some kind of algae.
That sounds awesome! Plant species that go beyond what we consider actual plants are always great additions to a world 😍
very informative...might have to have to add this to my playlist of writing tips!
That's amazing to hear! I hope it helps you with developing your world! 😍
Bonus song at the end! 😂lovely
Just now seeing this vid so I could try to imagine plants that will be made for consumption. Could try making like different kinds of medicinal/ herbal plants one day, but for now this is mainly for making ingredients from a fantasy/ dream bar. Am also looking into how certain drinks are made to further the research 😅
That's really cool! Any exciting ideas?!
@@WorldAnvil well for now I just of the alternative of sugar in this "world" and it's called fairy dust. The sugar comes from reeds that are found near the land of the faes and depending on the reaction to the drink, it could either give dreams or nightmares (sweet=dream, bitter/sour=nightmare). Also this thing I'm planning on making is actually a mix of a solo ttrpg and a fanfic. And I did get some inspo from Last Tea Shop, and maybe a bit of Tavern Talk
I did not know that about tomatoes! I learned something new today
I dont plan to write, but an idea popped in my head that i couldnt just leave there, so as they say if you wanna write just do it. So here i am flowing down the river because i thought, fuck it jellyfish-plant stone forest biome, with clouded mountain wolfes, and sap sipper ardvark.
Im adding giant carnivorous plants now. I need some sorta parrot fish equivalent...
Love this 😂 How giant are these plants? Giant enough to eat a human? 👀
@@WorldAnvil Theres not much it could eat so lets say big enough to eat an owl.
I literally have a trampoline plant that has a giant roudn bouncy fruit which is very fragile, after you bounce a few times on it the fruit will explode & spread the seeds everywhere.
That's really cool! I'm curious, is the trampoline plant the name of the actual plant, or what is its real name?
So helpfull!
I"m gonna have to watch this again when I'm more thoroughly awake.
Out of curiosity, do you have any links/sources for the japanese acid lake?
Do these help?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Usori
zekkeijapan.com/spot/index/141/
We don't have resources for specific places...I've heard of that lake though! perfect worldbuilding material👌
How can I upload ew subtitles? I ended up translating this video to Portuguese
Hi! Unfortunately, UA-cam removed the option to have community-contributed subtitles.
@@WorldAnvil sad...
Flesh eating mushrooms hiding in the shrubbery!
HA nice!!
1:18 What? I'm not sure what ur saying here. Are u saying they don't need light? Fertiliser? Or soil? Either way you are very wrong
You're right! Most plants need the trifecta of water, soil, and sun. However, the spider plant can actually grow without soil! It is considered an "air plant" because of how it is adapted to live in arid climates. It doesn't need soil to survive--just water. A friend of mine actually had one and just spritzed it with water once everyday. It was wild.
Are there any plants you have made for your world that survive in strange ways--maybe even MOVE?
Bananas contain a chemical that make people happy.
@4:10 "Consider tobacco which produces nicotine and coffee which produces caffeine." yes, plants trying not to get eaten make themselves awesome.
Yep, and let's not forget about hot peppers. The exact thing that was supposed to make them taste bad made then delicious
Shout out to algae
One of the basis for the game Space 1889 is the Liftwood plant. Essential for the economy of both Mars and Earth but only to be found at high altitudes where barbaric Martians live. So many plots revolve around this plant.
You're so punny!😂
I have the volume all the way up and I can BARELY hear you
Thank you for the feedback! - We're looking to redo some of our older videos so this really helps us out 😊
i think you should probably not mix plants and fungi in the same sentences like that, it's pretty misleading
That's a good point, they're different things biologically even though they're often used with similar purposes in worldbuilding.
british
Janet is British, that is correct! 😄
You have very red hair... like red.
Red like FIRE!