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This is an ink drawing I made in preparation for my next cladogram. The pictures on the cladogram will not be this detailed, as I've found that pictures like this don't size down well.

Spiraformes grow in a logarithmic spiral, but this plant doesn't show it on the outside. Slice it in half and it'll look like a nautilus fossil. It spawns two or three five-legged walkers each cycle. Cycle, in this case, refers to the species' own reproductive cycle. In the absence of days or seasons, each plant species runs on its own schedule. Animals usually synchronize with the local plants, or not at all. Many breed year round.

This plant's mobile larvae are toxic to most animals, but some species' larvae are an easy meal for predators. Like the periodic cicadas, they work around this by spawning in such large numbers as to overwhelm their predators' appetites, ensuring the survival of a few to carry into the next generation. They may combine this strategy with an irregular spawning cycle coordinated with plant pheromones to catch their predators off guard.

Description
This is an ink drawing I made in preparation for my next cladogram. The pictures on the cladogram will not be this detailed, as I've found that pictures like this don't size down well.

Spiraformes grow in a logarithmic spiral, but this plant doesn't show it on the outside. Slice it in half and it'll look like a nautilus fossil. It spawns two or three five-legged walkers each cycle. Cycle, in this case, refers to the species' own reproductive cycle. In the absence of days or seasons, each plant species runs on its own schedule. Animals usually synchronize with the local plants, or not at all. Many breed year round.

This plant's mobile larvae are toxic to most animals, but some species' larvae are an easy meal for predators. Like the periodic cicadas, they work around this by spawning in such large numbers as to overwhelm their predators' appetites, ensuring the survival of a few to carry into the next generation. They may combine this strategy with an irregular spawning cycle coordinated with plant pheromones to catch their predators off guard.