Huminia (& Others)
Expeditions to the Crescent Minoria Dimension have brought back still more information about flora that can be found in some of the more stable rooms.
The primary specimen we will be examining is the Huminia.
Huminia
The leaves are flexible with a somewhat taffy-like texture, though not quite as elastic. They have a taste similar to licorice, but are tough to chew. The stem is a little more delicate and has more of a licorice texture and taste, though it is somewhat bitter.
The petals have a similar texture as the leaves towards the center. Towards the end they become more properly petal-like. They have a sweet, minty, candy-like taste.
The stamen have a fainter licorice taste than the stem/leaves. They are rather fragile and crumble easily in the mouth. The tips of the stamen have a minty flavor, though they aren't sweet like the petals.
Paepa Lantan Tree
The Paepa Lantan tree (featured on the left) is usually found in Fuline Ah, and is popular for its decorative fruits. The centers usually contain a fruity, jelly-like substance surrounded by a woody shell with a pleasant, somewhat spicy aroma like a mild form of cinnamon bark or cocobola.
This variant has a substance like hardened ink in the center of its fruits instead. They are not especially palatable, but the leaves have a distinct aroma, unlike its fruits. It is difficult to describe exactly, but the closest facsimile might be the smell of an old library, but with a fresher, greener undertone rather than the mustier one.
As one might expect, the leaves of this variant taste like paper, though they are slightly sweet, lacking the chemically undertones that manufactured paper might.
The mother species in Fuline Ah has a much more leafy taste to its leaves, though they do have a slight paper undertone.
Chekarin Mawarin
The flowers along the pillar were identified to be a relative of the Hirin Mawarin, a vine with flowers similar to small-disked sunflowers usually found in Wing Alayna growing along Pathvines. It is thought to be a hybrid between the Hirin Mawarin and Chekana Blawania.
Chekarin Mawarin usually have about 12 ray flowers that alternative between black and white. The color of the center can vary, sometimes containing alternating white and black, all black, or all white disk flowers depending on the exact flower head.
Others
A few other specimens were found on the expedition, but many of them were quite young. Mature specimens of the younger plants were not found nearby. This could mean they were planted by the residents of the dimension, or perhaps seeds blew in from further away, given the uneven spacing.
Among the small specimens named were the Biidama Lala (bottom left), a few variants of the Kokokabu family (scattered; one in the roots just south of the Paepa Lantan tree variant, others middle bottom right), and a young Sukatil (bottom right). Without mature specimens, research on the species represented is inconclusive, but a few things were noted about them nevertheless.
Young Biidama Lalas
Grow very small, bead-like fruits. Tend to grow in groups with multiple very thin, slightly hairy stems per root ball. The plants grew slightly over the course of the expedition, as did their fruits, but they were not determined to have yet reached maturity during the length of the expedition.
This plant was a new discovery. It has yet to be found anywhere else, so the dearth of available specimens, particularly matured ones, to study the new species by was sorely disappointing to the expedition.
Various Small Kokokabu
The discovered tubers have yet to be properly categorized, but they were identified as belonging to the Kokokabu family. Given the size of the plants, it was determined they had yet to reach maturity like many of the other small plants.
The young Kokokabu were hard and not yet edible. The leaves, however, did have a somewhat minty taste.
Young Sukatil
A Crescent Minoria Dimension Spotil variant that had not been spotted before. Produced a hard, glass-like fruit with lots of air bubbles in it.
Young Swirlana
To the right of the Paepa Lantan variant. Though a new discovery, not much was able to be determined about it during the time allotted to the expedition, as the forecasted static storm was moving in sooner than expected and the crew had to pack. It was, nevertheless, given a name. Study is underway to determine possible relatives, and another team has pinpointed a few potential candidates.
Unnamed Vine
To the right of the Paepa Lantan tree variant, north of young Swiralana. Like the young Swirlana, the time allotted to study the specimen exceeded that of the time available to expedition, especially given the changing weather conditions. Debate over the name and determination of any potential relatives are still underway.
