#arborea

Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are Beothukis, Fractofusus, Arborea, Charnia, Charniodiscus, Ivesheadiomorph, Primocandelabrum, Bradgatia, Thectardis, Lydonia, sea anemone , and microbial mats.

by Ron Winkler

This thick, vibrant green shrub grows best in a mild climate in partial shade, making the heavily forested first layer of Arborea its ideal growing conditions.  While the stems and stalks of the plant are covered in thick, curved thorns, the plant lacks much that would draw in predators save its beautiful, deep red flowers.  These flowers, both the main attraction of the shrub and the rarest element of its biology, do not bloom under any circumstances but under the care of a gardener.  This is because, due to some unknown mechanism, the heartshare rose only blooms if it is being tended by one who is in love.  This makes the shrub’s reproduction solely dependent on acts of care by the ardent, the other reason it flourishes most successfully in Arborea.  The ambient emotional climate of unrestrained but well-intentioned feeling is necessary to the heartshare rose’s growth, and the plant rarely flourishes in large quantity elsewhere, although potted plants are often the centerpiece - and passion project - of the dedicated interplanar gardener.

She’s barely below the power of a god, and so she had to feel like one. I’m really happy with how the art turned out, even if I may never get to use it in game.

Aristolochia arborea is flowering again in the CU greenhouse. Unfortunately the flowers are at the very base of the plant where it is hard to get a decent photograph. This is a repost of the same plant when I photographed it in 2013. Time flies. It didn’t seem that long ago. There are 500 or so species of Aristolochia, with most species either found in the tropics or subtropics. Only a few are shrub or tree-like. Aristolochia arborea is native to moist mountainsides of El Salvador, Guatemala, and adjacent Mexico.

Arborea, Casa del Balilla

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