#pseudoflowers

The Collection of Shows

Ask/Rp blog and also an infodump space for whenever I get stupid little ideas or remember about any of my AUs for my idea/version of The Hosts from the hit Roblox game Pressure

This blog is tied with @bowfortheaudience , as that is a prime example of my version of The Hosts.

You can ask, almost whatever to these lil shits themselves, have them interact with your own ocs or canon characters from their own AU or proper canon, OR ask me stuff about them.... or make them interact with each other.

You can also ask questions about my "canon" version of the Hosts here but you can also do that on the other blog.

My exceptions are

- No NSFW [so no fucking them. You can tear them apart limb from limb tho /hj]

- No politics

And uhhh

Yeah

If I need to add anything, I will, I can also block freely though that's quite uncommon.

Blog will also be updated whenever I make a new AU or I remember one I forgot about [bare with me because there are 11+ AUs, or smth like that... theres a lot. I.... have an issue !]

Directory

Before we get into each universe itself, tags and how each critter interacts!!

Default

#OurVoiceTripled <- In Character

#OminusWhispers <- Out Of Character

#ACreatureSpeaks <- Asks

#WhatOnceWasMine <- Reblogs

-- Out of character will be shown like this

[All Actions will be displayed like this]

Universes

#ContainmentBreached <- Containment AU

-> "He talks like this"

#LocalTelavisionHosts <- Game Show AU

-> "They talk like this"

#ProgramedSoul <- TV AU

-> "1t t@lk5 l1k3 t415" (It talks like this)

#Pseudoflowers <- Hanahaki AU

-> "They talk like this"

#MyLittleStar <- Obession AU

-> "They talk like this"

#TheAudiencesChild <- Spawn AU

-> "He talks like this"

#ItsGonnaGetWeird <- Weird AU

-> "They t@lk like th1s"

#TheToyNow <- Swap AU

-> "He talks like this"

#QuiteFittingName <- Reverie AU

-> "It talks like this"

#LabRat <- Expirement AU

-> "They talk like this"

#welcometotheshow <- Freakshow AU

-> "They talk like this."

Info about universes below

 Believe it or not, what you are seeing here is the same species of plant. The one on the left is the normal reproductive state of an Arabis mustard while the one on the right is the same species of mustard that has been infected by a rust fungus known as Puccinia monoica.

The interaction of these two species is interesting on so many levels. I spent an entire summer, along with my botanical colleagues, completely stumped as to what this strange orange-colored plant could be only to eventually find out that it was a mustard that has been hijacked! The fungus in question, Puccinia monoica, is part of a large complex of interrelated rust fungi who are quite fond of mustards. They utilize such an elaborate form of sexual reproduction.

The life cycle is as follows: Fungal spores land on a young mustard plant and begin to invade the host tissue. As they grow, they gain more and more nutrients from the mustard. Eventually the fungi effectively neuters its host and causes it to begin forming what are referred to as "pseudoflowers." The pseudoflowers are basically leaves that have been mutated by the fungus to look and smell a lot like other plants blooming in early summer. They produce a sticky, nectar-like substance that smells quite nice to pollinators. The mimicry even goes as far as to produce yellowish pigments that reflect UV light, making them an even more attractive target for passing insects. On each pseudoflower are hundreds of small cups known as spermatogonia. These house the sex cells of the fungus. The insect becomes covered in these sex cells, which it then transfers to other infected plants thus achieving sexual reproduction for Puccinia monoica.

Still with me?

At this point, the pseudoflowers stop producing color and nectar and instead, the fused sex cells germinate into hyphae that begin to form specialized structures called "aecia." The aceia house the spores that will be responsible for infecting their secondary host plants, which are grasses. The spores germinate and infect the grass. From there, structures called "uredia" are formed that go on to produce even more spores to infect even more grass. Eventually, structures called "telia" are formed on the grass and the cycle finally comes full circle. The telia produce the spores that will infect the original mustard host plants.

Whew! To have stumbled across an evolutionary drama such as this serves as a reminder of just how much in nature goes largely unnoticed every day.  

Further Reading:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00426.x/abstract

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0169534794901546

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6415/abs/362056a0.html