Phylum Mycetae
Aiki Mushroom (Amanita aiki)
Toxic red mushroom with flat or convex cap, white spore print and stipe ring. Typically found in the Field biome in association with tree roots. While highly toxic to humans and feli in particular, the Aiki has a number of important uses in the creation of Welding Discs, Coat Stain, Coat Bleach, Aging Potion, and even a flavor additive in Sausage. Aiki are also the primary ingredient in the crunchy-chewy candy AikEEzEEz, which has the curious effect of stimulating ovulation and/or sperm maturation in felis, rendering them more fertile insubsequent matings.
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Buku Mushrooms (Cantharellus buku)
Bright orange or iridescent blue mushroom, stipe thin and bare, infundibuliform cap. Found in association with mature Brussu tree roots, buku are edible but psychoactive to humans. Spores have a profound mutagenic effect on feli; they can be fed directly to splice the Zoned marking, cooked and processed with essence of Shuck Berries to create Shuckyus, or boiled and rendered into the taffy-like candy Byte-o-Buku, which can flip genders or create Omni cats. This is particularly useful for feli breeders on a budget.
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Globeshroom (Agaricus globus)
Cap convex and dark brown with faint tan speckles when mature, stipe bare, brown spore print. Immature mushrooms resemble light brown snowpack boletes, but mature mushrooms easily grow to the height of the average human. Found in the creek ecosystem, globeshrooms may be eaten but are quite bland and tough when mature. Their large size makes them useful for makeshift shelters if researchers should be caught in bad weather, or simply to provide shade on hot days.
Snowpack Bolete (Boletus edulis)
A Terran species, brought to Felisfire by colonists. It thrives best in cold, snowy biomes, but remains an uncommon resource. Edible, brown and convex cap, brown spore print and bare stipe. Found in association with other tundra plant roots. Not to be confused with the Globeshroom, which is considerably larger but can be mistaken when mushrooms are young. Boletes are most prized for their feli DNA patch Sagittarius-- as with some other Terran flora, it would appear that Feli genes are sensitive to some chemicals from Earth!
Uku glowing Mushrooms (Mycena uku)
Conical cap, white spore print, found in association with multiple grass species in the Field biome. Bioluminescent; fruiting bodies glow a bright green that is visible in darkness, provides the mysterious glow often found in the Fields at night. Uku mushrooms are inedible to humans, but they are an important ingredient in Coat Bleach and Breeding Potions.
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Xutu Worm Mushrooms (Xutu vermiformis)
Stipe rubbery and vermiform in clusters of 4-5, pink with blue underside, cap absent; pale blue spores released from striped gills at distal end. Found in association with deadwood on the banks of freshwater lakes, these unusual fungi thrive in very wet conditions. While inedible to both humans and feli, many Aquii seem to be intoxicated by the xutu mushroom as a kind of catnip. The essential oils of the mushroom may be distilled and used as a scale and skin moisturizer for hairless feli, but care must be taken to not overdose Aquui on this intoxicant.
SECTION TWO : KINGDOM PLANTAE
TAXON - Gymnosperma
Phylum Pinophyta* (Coniferae)
nonnative, imported from Terran biome...exist as naturalized erratics.
Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) / Old Pine Cone
Imported from Terra for its lumber potential, this hardy species known by many common names regrettable did not exhibit the tall, unbranched, rapid growth pattern that was anticipated from its normal habits on Terra, and the few experimental specimens raised have seeded into the wild but are still notably uncommon. Sought out at holidays for sentimental reasons, they compete poorly with the as-yet undocumented native gymnosperms.
Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata) / Monterey Pine Needles
Another Terran conifer brought to FelisFire for its commercial potential, and regrettably another failure. In this case it is theorized that the climate here is too variable for proper cultivation for paper pulp and lumber. Quite rare - in addition to some erratic naturalization and a certain amount of hand-cultivation for Christmas decor, the species has faded out.
TAXON - Angiospermae
Phylum Monocotyleda
Family Poaceae
Beathay ( ) / Beathay Bushel
Dewhay ( ) / Dewhay Bushel
Milgrass ( ) / Milgrass Bushel
Shograss ( ) / Shograss Bushel
Wheagrass ( ) / Wheagrass Bushel
Tassel Grass ( )
Flichay Bushel (? - with forbs?)
Frosshay Bushel (? - with forbs?)
TAXON - Eukarya
Phylum Archaeplastida
Family Viridiplantae
Buckgrass (Ulva buckii) / Buckgrass Square
Buckgrass is not a grass at all, but instead an edible green alga that grows on the bottoms of lakes and rivers. Its membrane is only two cells thick, and grows in a large, ruffled shape that can be gathered and dried into a cube shape for easy storage. Buckgrass accumulates a high sodium content relative to the water around it. As a result, Aquii love the salty algae fresh or prepared, and gain particular exploring energy from the pickled treat Bucky's SaltySquares. Humans with a taste for salt can enjoy buckgrass as flavoring too, and colonists have gathered much of this highly abundant plant from their first arrival.
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Wibbleweed ( ) / Wibbleweed Bushel
Family Rhodophyta
Jellygrass ( ) / Jellygrass Bushel
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