List: Entities: Nature: Flora: Plants

PLANTS

Notes:

• These Flora Objects differ from trees, as they cannot be harvested for Wood, but use the same rules for harvesting Food.
• They have a few unique traits:

=> They are intended as "eye candy", and are placed over appropriate textures as they are painted onto the terrain (for example, water lilies might be added when painting shallow water in a certain biome). => Players can construct structures on top of them (if they do, they disappear). => If flowering, they lose their flowers during Winter. => If snow covers the terrain, these smaller objects are not visible until snow is again removed from the terrain.

3. AQUATICS

WaterLily

• Remarks:
• Flowering floating pads.
• Large flowers in many colours.
• Does not prohibit the passage of watercraft where they may otherwise proceed.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=water+li...-8&start=0&sa=N

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=water+li...-8&start=0&sa=N Reeds

• Remarks: Joint-stemmed grass.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

Cattails

• Remarks: Cattails.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=water+ca...-8&start=0&sa=N

SeaweedFloating

• Remarks:
• Floating inshore.
• Kelp-like.
• Reference: ​http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt2433a/image...ges/seaweed.jpg and ​http://www.its2.uidaho.edu/scripts/mlib.dl...w=50028&n=0&m=1

SeaweedBeached

• Remarks:
• Beached remnants.
• Kelp-like.
• Reference: ​http://www.grownmencry.com/img/BeachedKelp.jpg

4. BUSHES

Strawberry

• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...trawberry+plant

and ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search Blueberry

• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...=blueberry+bush

and ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search Xerophyte

• Remarks: Small grayish-green-leafed xerophytic; non-descript chaparral looking, may have tiny white or yellow flowers—not very showy.
• Reference: N/A.

ColdTolerant

• Remarks:
• Medium-leafed deep-to-dark-green.
• Evergreen or deciduous.
• Non-descript low growth juniper (evergreen) or deciduous scrub bush looking.
• Deciduous may have somewhat showy white, yellow or pink flowers during Spring and Summer. Gold or bronzy foliage during Autumn.
• Reference: N/A.

Mediterranean

• Remarks: Gray-greens with a slight bluish cast are common bush foliage colours.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=ice+plan...-8&start=0&sa=N and ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...&q=broom+plants and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=heather+...-8&start=0&sa=N Tropical

• Remarks:
• Large-leafed.
• Bright-green or multi-coloured variegated.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=coleus+p...-8&start=0&sa=N

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=philoden...-8&start=0&sa=N and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=elephant...-8&start=0&sa=N and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=caladium...-8&start=0&sa=N

5. CACTI

Columnar

• Remarks:
• Tall columnar euphorbia.
• Vertically-ribbed.
• White-yellow flowers near crown
• (No arms like North American sahuaros and cardons).
• Reference: ​http://www.maccactus.com/euphorbia%20ingens.html and ​http://web.infinito.it/utenti/r/robbillo/1...hila/2000_5.jpg

Barrel

• Remarks:
• Short barrel-like or pincushion-like.
• Vertically-ribbed.
• Bright coloured flowers at circling crown.
• Barrel cacti are not native to the 0 A.D. geographic region but some similar cacti are.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=barrel+c...-8&start=0&sa=N

PricklyPear

• Remarks:
• Opuntia-type cactus with “rabbit ear” pads.
• Flowers in shades of yellow, peach, scarlet, orange, red and lavender.
• Blooms in Summer with advent of Summer rains.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=prickly+...-8&start=0&sa=N

6. FERNS

FernGround

• Remarks:
• Low.
• No trunk.
• All fronds bright green, with brown fiddleheads (Boston Fern is a good base model).
• Variants: Several in size and shape.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=fern+pla...8&start=80&sa=N

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=ferns&sv...-8&start=0&sa=N FernTree

• Remarks:
• Short-trunked tree-like.
• Fronds bright green, with brownish fiddleheads (use Dicksonia for short-trunked Tree Ferns generic model—don't want these to be so large as to suggest they are a harvestable tree).
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=dicksoni...-8&start=0&sa=N

7. WILD FLOWERS

Daisy

• Remarks:
• Daisy-like flowers on low greenish foliage.
• 'Dies' in Winter (however, blooms all year on Tropic).
• Best massed in meadows or open forest terrains.
• Most daisy flowers have a brown or black “eye” in the centre of the flower's petals.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=daisy+fl...-8&start=0&sa=N

Poppy

• Remarks:
• Poppy-like flowers on low greenish foliage.
• 'Dies' in Winter (however, blooms all year on Tropic).
• Use “California poppy” reference for flower bud and bloom open shape.
• Best massed in meadows or open forest land terrains (red poppies are magnificent in Spanish oak open woodland). Majorca Wildflowers in midland open evergreen oak woodland meadow
• Signature Plant: N/A.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=californ...&start=140&sa=N

and ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search Artichoke

• Remarks:
• Large-bluish gray-green-indented-leafed artichoke.
• Large mauve and sometimes bright sky-blue thistle-like flowers.
• (Preferred though not illustrated—the pictures show plants grown on acidified soils while normal range was on alkaline producing blue flowers during the era of the game).
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=globe+ar...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Orchid

• Remarks:
• Strap-leafed sometimes pseudo-bulbed.
• Showy orchid flower spikes dispersed on and amongst forest terrains.
• These plants are not normally found in open meadows.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=orchid+f...-8&start=0&sa=N

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=orchid+p...-8&start=0&sa=N Bromeliad

• Remarks:
• Strap-leafed.
• Showy bract ‘flower’ spikes dispersed on and amongst forest terrains.
• These plants are not normally found in open meadows.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=bromelia...-8&start=0&sa=N

and ​http://images.google.com/images?q=bromelai...=UTF-8&filter=0 and ​http://www.charlies-web.com/other_pics/otherpics.html

8. TALL GRASSES

TallGrassFountain

• Remarks:
• A tallish coarse gray-green fountain-grass type similar to Pampas Grass.
• Cream-coloured ‘plumes’ on erect flower-spikes.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

9. TREE STUMPS

StumpSmall

• Remarks: Small stump.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

StumpMedium

• Remarks: Medium stump.
• Reference: See reference for TreeStumpSmall.

StumpLarge

• Remarks: Large stump.
• Reference: See reference for TreeStumpSmall.