Fruiting Grovecrystal

Fruiting Grovecrystal
(Crystallocarpus fruti)
Information
Creator	Hydromancerx Other
Week/Generation	24/154
Habitat	Darwin Tropical Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Tropical Woodland, Darwin Temperate Woodland, Darwin Tropical Scrub, Darwin Chaparral
Size	3 m Tall
Primary Mobility	Sessile
Support	Unknown
Diet	Photosynthesis
Respiration	Passive (Lenticels)
Thermoregulation	Ectotherm
Reproduction	Asexual Fruiting
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Division Class Order Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Binucleozoa Crystallozoa (info) Cavacrystalita Coelocrystalla Caulocrystallales Crystallocarpaceae Crystallocarpus Crystallocarpus fruti

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Tribranch Grovecrystal	Parala Grovecrystal

The fruiting grovecrystal replaced its ancestor, the tribranch grovecrystal, in Darwin. It has grown a little bit talled and has many more branches with photosynthetic crystals. However the adaption that helped it replace its ancestor was its new fruit. Made from the same chitin as its crystal leaves these hard fruits helped attracted fruigivores that helped it spread far and wide much faster than asexual budding. It still has rapid growth like its ancestor but grows from the spores inside its tennis ball-like fruit. The outside of the fruit has a hard chitin shell, while inside is a sweet fungus with many spores inside. These spores can pass through the digestive tracts of fauna and still are able to grow (with a fertilizer boost).