Life on Land

A descriptive text on the subject of land-based life forms found on the fictional planet Desdinova.

PLANTS:

Floral:

Non-toxic

Cat’s Whisker

A tall plant with no flower It bears two leaves

at the top and several curled tendrils down

its sides.

Silver Bell

A short flowering plant with blue leaves and a

circular cluster of silver-white buds at the top

Sweet Blossom

A tall flowering plant with green leaves and a

blossom with six thick overlapped petals

Toxic

Inedible

Mudleaf

A toxic plant with no flowers and mottled brown

and blue spade-like leaves

Oxnose

A toxic flowering plant with a bulbous orange flower.

Untouchable

Bungleweed

A toxic vine with broad leaves shimmery golden on top

but plain yellow beneath.

Edible

Indigenous

Fruits and Nuts

Aardfruit

A round fruit with a hard coarse shell and

a succulent core

Acerfruit

Baynut

A small oblong nut with a moderately

tough shell and cluster of nutmeats inside

Capifruit

Delica

An oblong yellow citrus fruit which consists of a

long peel on the outside and four or five

concave segments inside.

Hylofruit

Iciclefruit

Rainberries

Grains

Goosebill

A tall wheat-like grassy plant with spatula-shaped

grains

Sprattle

Tea Grain

Vegetables

Blackleaf

Green Carrots

Rattle Pod Peas

Herbs

Blue mustard

Gingerleaf

Halleflower

Poor Bill’s Sugar

 

Imported

Fruits

Apples

Bananas

Cherries

Strawberries

Grains

Corn

Rye

Wheat

Vegetables

Carrots

Lettuce

Onions

Herbs

Cinnamon

Sugar Cane

Author's Note

This is a work in progress. I am posting it early as I would like feedback on how I can improve it.

Reviews

[Meeks]

My assumption is that you are outlining your planet in order to later write a story taking place there. If not, please correct me.

Some friendly advice: I've been at this stage too. All the websites say: outline outline outline. Outline the botany, outline the geology, outline the animal population and then cultures or biomes as well.

Well guess what? It's all *insert curse word here*.
I mean, sure. You can outline, but outlining stops your creativity. You can't have a special plant that you've wanted because it isn't on your outline. So then you go change your outline before adding it. And it takes forever.

Here's my advice: don't outline the setting, outline the plot first.

Because the setting is just supposed to be awesome and help the plot along, right? While the plot has to be interesting, which is much harder to achieve.
And then build the setting AROUND the plot.
Unless your not the outlining type, like me. In which case, think for ten minutes about a plot and get writing.


On a side note (or maybe this is the main note?), are all of these actual existing plants that you picked for certain traits? Because you have several that I recognize, and some that I haven't heard of ever.

I like the fact that you also thought of plants that almost don't interact with humans at all. Realism, kudos for realism.

[ElegantReaper]

Thanks. The planet is being colonized by displaced humans following Earth's pollution-based destruction. Some of the plants listed are real and come from Earth. Others are fictitious and are Desdinovan. They were named by people from Earth and use Latin names for plants from Earth that they bear similarities to. The capifruit, for example, is named after it's taste (it looks like a grape but has the same taste as a hot pepper).