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My first aquatic plant! This is a plant that produces aquatic fruit, and it's most likely the first aquatic plant ever to have a true flower. How in the heck that thing gets pollinated is another story for another time. The seaweed sprites are all the growth stages, and the last three are the death stages. The half-eaten plant that is still green isn't really a death stage, but when a creature tries to eat the plant, it will become half-eaten, but if it isn't mature, it will be eaten in one bite.

When a plant becomes a tasty snack for a creature or aquatic critter, it will either survive or die. Each time the plant successfully survives being munched on, the chances of it dying the next time will increase. Of course, if the plant is eaten a second time before it either dies or recovers, it will vanish without going through any of the true death stages.

The half-eaten dying plant is the stage the plants enter after being nommed on one too many times, or if a toxic aquatic creature eats a normal dying plant. If the dying version is eaten once again, it will vanish, just like the living plant.

The fruit actually has some real protein content, unlike the other one, because the fruit-to-seed ratio has been switched around. If the fruit is eaten, it will release one to three spores. If it rots, it will release three to six spores. The plants release so many spores because nature is a very delicate thing, and spores have a 40% chance of not sprouting at all, even in the right conditions. Even if the spores do sprout before they get eaten, they will probably just end up being eaten alive by Norns or the critters living in the oceans.

If a spore detects no other spores, fruits or plants around it, it will have a 100% chance of sprouting when placed in the right soil. It will also become invisible to creatures, and plants do the same thing if they're all alone.