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Hilsuny Plant | Alien (Other) | Sci-fi/Fantasy
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This plant makes me so happy just to look at it! To look at it, the hilsuny appears to be a young shoot, but the twisting stem is the adult plant. Leaves grow from the tip and look, to the uninitiated, like flowers.
The neolithics of Kaleida mostly use hilsuny for its wax - a protective layer that grows over the surface of the stem. While the plant itself prefers water so is only found in places where water is already in fairly generous supply, they harvest the wax to seal containers, to help with water storage: a pretty important thing to be able to do in sub-arid areas.
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Art type: Colour drawing
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Subject: Alien plant
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Appears in: Kaleida
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Kaleida is a worldbuilding project without a storyline or individual characters. Most of my clients come to me with stories and characters and treat worldbuilding as an after-thought, so I'm doing the opposite and focusing solely on my worldbuilding. This species is a result of my research on how to create an alien ecosystem, which I wrote as a blog series. Read it here.
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This feels like it would be a fun plant to play with! I can see making little marble slides -- Is it by chance springy at all?
I feel like it might snap if I tried to stretch out the curves, but goodness do I wanna just hold this in my hands -- about how big is it? I can't imagine it's super large.
Now, I can't imagine it surviving very long after the wax is collected off of it, but how quickly does it dry out? Do most of the mukash de-wax it and then use it in culinary dishes, or is it just left to dry?
I feel like it might snap if I tried to stretch out the curves, but goodness do I wanna just hold this in my hands -- about how big is it? I can't imagine it's super large.
Now, I can't imagine it surviving very long after the wax is collected off of it, but how quickly does it dry out? Do most of the mukash de-wax it and then use it in culinary dishes, or is it just left to dry?
I think it's kinda springy! You wouldn't be able to pull it out straight, no, but I certainly see what you mean! They max out at about 1.5ft so they're not very big - they grow as much as they can in an environment that can change between the wet and dry season, make their spores, send them on their way, and then, if they've gotten all that done, they can die. So they don't grow woody inside and they can stretch out a little, but they're naturally curly so they don't stand up to straightening too much.
Normally the mesolithics pick them to scrape off the wax, but if one were to scrape it off and leave the plant in the ground it wouldn't survive long. Aside from losing its protection it would probably suffer a great deal from all that bruising. The mukash aren't wasteful so dishes are made to use the hilsuny up, but they tend to feel a bit jaded about it. It's very few mukashs' favourite, but it shows up collected into bundles in burrows quite often on account of the wax's usefulness.
And now I kind of fancy getting some art of a mukash forcing his way through a bowl of hilsuny stems. Poor bugger.
Normally the mesolithics pick them to scrape off the wax, but if one were to scrape it off and leave the plant in the ground it wouldn't survive long. Aside from losing its protection it would probably suffer a great deal from all that bruising. The mukash aren't wasteful so dishes are made to use the hilsuny up, but they tend to feel a bit jaded about it. It's very few mukashs' favourite, but it shows up collected into bundles in burrows quite often on account of the wax's usefulness.
And now I kind of fancy getting some art of a mukash forcing his way through a bowl of hilsuny stems. Poor bugger.
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