Cocobarrage

Cocobarrage
(Atriarecea coco)
Information
Creator	Bufforpington Other
Week/Generation	26/160
Habitat	Oz Temperate Beach, Hydro Tropical Beach
Size	7 m Tall
Primary Mobility	Sessile
Support	Unknown
Diet	Photosynthesis
Respiration	Passive (Stomata, Lenticels)
Thermoregulation	Ectotherm
Reproduction	Sexual, Airborne Cylindrical Spores
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Melanophyta Melanoanthae Obsidianophyllopsida Negrocales Fumifructaceae Atriarecea Atriarecea coco

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Obsidibarrage

The cocobarrage adapted to living on Oz temperate beach. With no tree-sized flora to compete with, it thrived. Its spore chambers moved to the sides of the cocobarrage's trunk; in a somewhat similar configuration to a coconut palm. The number of leaves it has decreased to fit these new spore chambers. The leaves also are no longer stiff and slanted because the spore chambers no longer roll down them. Because they live by the sea, the cocobarrage had to adapt to the increase in salinity. In order to deal with this, the cocobarrage excretes salt on the bottom of its trunk. (the cocobarrage in the image has not been exposed to very much salt). The cocobarrage now exploits the ocean to carry its spore chambers. While most hit the ground and release their spores there, when a spore chamber lands in the ocean, it can last for months. The spore chamber now has three openings and chambers. This allows the chamber to fire its spores three times. The orange flesh blocking the three chambers will be compromised by decay at different times, allowing the spores to be fired off at different times.Because of this adaptation, the Cocobarrage spread to Hydro tropical coast. There, it out-competed the obsidibarrages because of its higher salt tolerance. However, it could not out-compete the fuzzpalm. This is because the fuzzpalm is well adapted to the saltier beach. The fact that beach flora don't grow within close proximity to each other like forest flora and the fact that the obsidibarrage has fewer leaves also contributed to its inability to replace the fuzzpalm.