Questions tagged [flora]
For questions related to plants and vegetation in general.
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Best crops to grow that are calorie dense, easy to grow AND fire-resistant?
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We have a boggy, soggy, wet, humid, very fertile clearing in a valley. There is a farming outpost belonging to faction B (think of it as a parody of the Tuntian as 'established' by Cao ...
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What conditions on an Earthlike planet would allow for a massive, Pando-esque forest that’s a single organism?
I’m assuming that you probably know of everyone’s best friend Pando, the aspen system that spans over a hundred acres in Utah while still being one single tree? I’m creating a science-fiction series ...
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Creating realistic airborne Planktonic Photoautotrophs on an Earth-Gravity planet?
I was thinking about an earth-like setting with airborne "phytoplankton" and have been considering multiple possible modes for achieving this end. First are the main issues with airborne ...
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How Far Can A Flower Float?
I am hoping to have a flower float many miles down a river, more than once, without being destroyed. The story is grounded in rough science, being that nothing raises red flags while reading to make ...
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Could an alien plant composed of purely stem cells, be very adaptable?
In terms of scientific realness, I want to have a bioengineered plant that is composed primarily of stem cells. I want it that way so it can grow in any environment, and adapt to any changes in ways ...
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Plant Color for 1500+ nm Light Absorption
Plants on earth are green because they absorb blue and red light, reflecting green light. According to this graph, for a plant that takes in water and methane to produce hydrogen, it would ideally ...
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Review my idea: plant islands
My world is a moon with 17% earths gravity and 100km deep oceans. It is tidally locked to its planet. It was originally a subsurface ocean but recently (about 50 million years ago) it found itself and ...
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suggestions on natural dyes/plants to make natural dyes that can be used to dye skin for long periods of time?
I am creating a world where humans have colonized a large amount of space and have a few planets where they have left biologically engineered/altered species. The planet I'm currently working on has ...
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Can a multi-mile tall kelp-like plant stand?
I’m making a Europa-like world and I have an idea for this kelp-like plant. It’s called the “kings kelp” and is about as important to the environment as a tree. The problem is, I don’t know if it ...
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Could a plant evolve an electricity based defence system?
I’m working on a Europa-like moon that mainly uses piezosynthesis to get energy. Plant-like organisms would create small amounts of electricity to break molecules apart and form them into required ...
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How would a plant disconnected from the ground get nitrogen?
I’m working on a rogue planet with a Europa-like moon with life beneath the ice. I also want a plant that, instead of being connected to the ground, would float through the currents. To clarify, the ...
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Kinetosynthetic organic chemical formula
I’m working on a rogue moon with a subsurface ocean. I have a kelp-like organism that has tiny quartz crystals within its cells. When it is moved by currents these crystals would stretch creating ...
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Can other sources of energy be used to fuel photosynthesis other than sunlight?
I’m working on a rogue moon that when life evolved it was around a star. Currently it has an ice shell kilometers thick and a deep ocean of liquid water beneath. I already know that chemosynthesis ...
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Would plants being able to control the elements (weather, geology, wildfires...) make my world greener?
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I'm building a world of untamed wilderness, and one of the aspects that contribute to this atmosphere are giant overgrown jungles. However, as everyone knows, a jungle world isn't quite so ...
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Is there a natural, or even supernatural way to have a planet lose colors?
I want to set a story on a world whose colors (plants, animals,etc) have turned black over the course of a century or two, but I can't quite come up with an explanation as to why it happened.
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