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"scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 runs; silhouette QA'd 2026-07-11 - multi-stem dark rounded crown + woody catkin cones read (docs/verification/alder-mature-draft.png). 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Grows along arroyo threads where the moisture runs. Its dead form is what the snag prop stands in for.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "arid", "label": "Arid / Desert", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "algarrobo-leafy", "common_name": "Algarrobo (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Prosopis alba", "description": "Rung-2 tier of algarrobo: the same leaning bole and umbrella puff envelope, with bipinnate foliage as alpha-cutout cards over baked hardwood bark.", "family": null, "native_range": "Chaco and Monte, northwest Argentina", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "alphonso-mango", "common_name": "Alphonso Mango", "scientific_name": "Mangifera indica 'Alphonso'", "description": "A prized Indian mango cultivar grown on a medium-sized evergreen tree, valued for its sweet, fiberless, saffron-colored fruit.", "family": "Anacardiaceae", "native_range": "South Asia (India, cultivated widely in Maharashtra)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "american-beech", "common_name": "American Beech", "scientific_name": "Fagus grandifolia", "description": "A large deciduous tree with smooth silvery-gray bark and glossy, toothed elliptical leaves that often persist through winter.", "family": "Fagaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "american-elm", "common_name": "American Elm", "scientific_name": "Ulmus americana", "description": "The classic wineglass tree of the Ohio field edge - a single grey ridged trunk forking high into arching limbs that fountain into a broad crown of small asymmetric serrate leaves. Draft; no assets yet.", "family": "broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "american-elm-leafy", "common_name": "American Elm", "scientific_name": "Ulmus americana", "description": "The classic wineglass tree of the Ohio field edge - a single grey ridged trunk forking high into arching limbs that fountain into a broad crown of small asymmetric serrate leaves. Draft; no assets yet.", "family": "broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "angico-branco", "common_name": "Angico Branco", "scientific_name": "Anadenanthera colubrina", "description": "A deciduous tree with a broad flat-topped crown, bipinnate leaves, and spiky seed pods, common in the Caatinga and Cerrado of northeastern Brazil.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Seasonally dry tropical forests of Brazil, including Caatinga and Cerrado biomes", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "apple-leafy", "common_name": "Apple", "scientific_name": "Malus domestica", "description": "A deciduous fruit tree with a spreading crown of oval toothed leaves, fragrant white-to-pink blossoms, and sweet edible pomes.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Central Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "apple", "common_name": "Apple", "scientific_name": "Malus domestica", "description": "A deciduous fruit tree with a spreading crown of oval toothed leaves, fragrant white-to-pink blossoms, and sweet edible pomes.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Central Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "arctic-bell-heather", "common_name": "Arctic bell heather", "scientific_name": "Cassiope tetragona", "description": "A low, mat-forming evergreen dwarf shrub of Arctic tundra with scale-like leaves and small white bell-shaped flowers.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Circumpolar Arctic tundra", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "arctic-moss", "common_name": "arctic moss", "scientific_name": "Calliergon giganteum", "description": "A trailing aquatic moss forming dense green-gold mats in cold tundra ponds and wet meadows.", "family": "Amblystegiaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and subarctic wetlands of North America, Europe, and Asia", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "arctic-mountain-avens", "common_name": "Arctic mountain avens", "scientific_name": "Dryas octopetala", "description": "A low, mat-forming evergreen sub-shrub with white eight-petaled flowers and feathery seed heads, common on tundra and rocky alpine slopes.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "arctic-poppy", "common_name": "Arctic poppy", "scientific_name": "Papaver radicatum", "description": "A low tufted perennial herb with hairy basal leaves and solitary pale yellow cup-shaped flowers on leafless stems, adapted to high Arctic tundra.", "family": "Papaveraceae", "native_range": "Circumpolar Arctic tundra, including Severnaya Zemlya and other high Arctic islands", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "arctic-willow", "common_name": "arctic willow", "scientific_name": "Salix arctica", "description": "A prostrate, mat-forming dwarf shrub with rounded leaves that hugs the tundra ground to survive extreme cold and wind.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Arctic tundra of North America, Greenland, and Eurasia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "areca-palm", "common_name": "Areca Palm", "scientific_name": "Dypsis lutescens", "description": "A clustering palm with slender golden-green canes topped by arching, feathery fronds, commonly grown as an ornamental houseplant.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Madagascar", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "aspen", "common_name": "Aspen", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Populus tremuloides. Quaking aspen: a tall, very slender clonal broadleaf. Bole is a near-white cream pole, SMOOTH (no birch-like horizontal lenticel banding), marked with scattered BLACK knot-eyes and V-shaped branch scars, with a rough dark collar at the base of old stems. Crown starts high (bare bole for half to two-thirds of the height) and is a NARROW, loosely conical flame - never a ball. Few thin upward-angled branches. Leaves are small, round-cordate on flattened petioles, so foliage reads as loose dappled clusters with air and sky-holes between them, shimmering; fresh light-to-mid green in summer, luminous gold in fall. Grows in stands of many similar poles - the asset must read right instanced in groups.", "family": "boreal broadleaf (Aspen gold)", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "aspen-leafy", "common_name": "Aspen (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Populus tremuloides", "description": "Populus tremuloides. Quaking aspen: a tall, very slender clonal broadleaf. Bole is a near-white cream pole, SMOOTH (no birch-like horizontal lenticel banding), marked with scattered BLACK knot-eyes and V-shaped branch scars, with a rough dark collar at the base of old stems. Crown starts high (bare bole for half to two-thirds of the height) and is a NARROW, loosely conical flame - never a ball. Few thin upward-angled branches. Leaves are small, round-cordate on flattened petioles, so foliage reads as loose dappled clusters with air and sky-holes between them, shimmering; fresh light-to-mid green in summer, luminous gold in fall. Grows in stands of many similar poles - the asset must read right instanced in groups.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "North America, boreal to montane", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "babassu-palm", "common_name": "Babassu Palm", "scientific_name": "Attalea speciosa", "description": "A tall feather palm of Amazonian and Brazilian forests, valued for its oil-rich seeds borne in dense clusters beneath a crown of long pinnate fronds.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Northern and central Brazil, into Bolivia and Peru", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "babul", "common_name": "Babul", "scientific_name": "Vachellia nilotica", "description": "A thorny, drought-tolerant tree with feathery bipinnate leaves and round golden-yellow flower puffs, common across dry regions of South Asia and Africa.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Africa, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "swamp-cypress-leafy", "common_name": "Bald Cypress", "scientific_name": "Taxodium distichum", "description": "Tall columnar swamp conifer with a flared buttressed base, root knees, and feathery tiered dusty blue-green foliage.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "swamp-cypress", "common_name": "Bald Cypress", "scientific_name": "Taxodium distichum", "description": "Tall columnar swamp conifer with a flared buttressed base, root knees, and feathery tiered dusty blue-green foliage.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": 6 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 22 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "balsa", "common_name": "balsa", "scientific_name": "Ochroma pyramidale", "description": "A fast-growing tropical tree prized for its extremely lightweight, low-density wood used in model-making and insulation.", "family": "Malvaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Central and South America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "balsam-fir", "common_name": "Balsam Fir", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for tamarack)", "family": "boreal conifer (closes spruce/pine/larch/fir set", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "balsam-poplar", "common_name": "Balsam Poplar", "scientific_name": "Populus balsamifera", "description": "A fast-growing deciduous tree with a straight trunk and a narrow crown of resinous, fragrant buds and glossy heart-shaped leaves.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Northern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bamboo", "common_name": "Bamboo", "scientific_name": "Bambuseae", "description": "A woody grass with hollow jointed culms that grows in dense clumping or spreading stands.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, especially Asia", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "banana", "common_name": "Banana", "scientific_name": "Musa acuminata", "description": "A large herbaceous plant with a pseudostem of tightly overlapping leaf sheaths and broad paddle-shaped leaves, bearing hanging clusters of elongated edible fruit.", "family": "Musaceae", "native_range": "Southeast Asia and the western Pacific", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "banyan", "common_name": "Banyan", "scientific_name": "Ficus benghalensis", "description": "A massive strangler fig that grows aerial prop roots forming secondary trunks, eventually spreading into a wide, multi-trunked canopy.", "family": "Moraceae", "native_range": "Indian subcontinent", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "baobab-leafy", "common_name": "Baobab", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 syntax-checked; not yet test-rendered", "family": "african savanna", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "baobab", "common_name": "Baobab", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 syntax-checked; not yet test-rendered", "family": "african savanna", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "barbatimao", "common_name": "Barbatim\u00e3o", "scientific_name": "Stryphnodendron adstringens", "description": "A small, gnarled tree or shrub of the Brazilian Cerrado with deeply fissured, tannin-rich bark traditionally used as an astringent medicinal remedy.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Cerrado savanna of central Brazil", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "barley", "common_name": "Barley", "scientific_name": "Hordeum vulgare", "description": "An annual cereal grass with dense bristly seed spikes, cultivated worldwide for grain, malt, and fodder.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Fertile Crescent, Southwest Asia", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bearberry", "common_name": "bearberry", "scientific_name": "Arctostaphylos uva-ursi", "description": "A low-growing evergreen groundcover shrub with small leathery leaves, pink-white urn-shaped flowers, and red berries favored by bears.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Northern Hemisphere circumboreal (North America, Europe, Asia)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "beech", "common_name": "Beech", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 runs; silver bark + pads correct, crown lopsided - needs centering pass", "family": "temperate hardwood (photo-anchored)", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "beech-leafy", "common_name": "Beech (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Fagus sylvatica", "description": "Rung 2 of grow_beech.py: smooth grey elephant-hide bole and a dense low-branching dome, with a leaf-card canopy of oval wavy-margined blades. Bark is the signature - beech is the one broadleaf whose trunk should NOT be ridged. Vocabi P2, paired with maple-leafy. The stylized solid beech remains the beech species.", "family": "Fagaceae", "native_range": "Temperate Europe; analogue of American beech", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bellflower", "common_name": "Bellflower", "scientific_name": "Campanula rotundifolia", "description": "A herbaceous perennial bearing nodding, bell-shaped blue-violet flowers on slender stems.", "family": "Campanulaceae", "native_range": "Northern temperate regions of Europe, Asia, and North America", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bermuda-grass", "common_name": "Bermuda grass", "scientific_name": "Cynodon dactylon", "description": "A low-growing, wiry perennial turf grass that spreads by both stolons and rhizomes and tolerates heat, drought, and heavy foot traffic.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Africa, Asia, and southern Europe (widely naturalized)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "berry-bush", "common_name": "Berry Bush", "scientific_name": "Amelanchier alnifolia", "description": "Forageable multi-stemmed berry shrub (saskatoon/serviceberry idiom) - Vocabi's first food-loop asset. 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fine branching skeleton with individual alpha-cutout leaf sprigs (docs/birch.PNG target). The stylized solid-lobe birch remains the 'birch' species.", "family": "broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "old", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "birch-scan", "common_name": "Birch (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": "Betula papyrifera", "description": "Fidelity rung 3 of the paper birch: true leaf geometry, every leaf a modelled blade with midrib, crease and curl.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "target_height_m": 1.5 }, { "code": "young", "target_height_m": 5 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 18 }, { "code": "old", "target_height_m": 20 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "birds-nest-fern", "common_name": "Bird's Nest Fern", "scientific_name": "Asplenium nidus", "description": "An epiphytic fern with broad, undivided, glossy fronds that form a rosette resembling a bird's nest.", "family": "Aspleniaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Asia, Australia, East Africa, Pacific Islands", "form": "fern", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bird-s-nest-fern", "common_name": "Bird's Nest Fern", "scientific_name": "Asplenium nidus", "description": "An epiphytic fern with broad, undivided, glossy fronds that form a rosette resembling a bird's nest.", "family": "Aspleniaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Asia, Australia, and East Africa", "form": "fern", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "salcam", "common_name": "Black locust", "scientific_name": "Robinia pseudoacacia", "description": "Black locust (false acacia), the roadside and railway-embankment tree of the whole Romanian lowland, planted in lines and spreading in thickets. An upright, rather narrow and irregular tree about 12 m tall: a slender, slightly crooked trunk with deeply furrowed, ropey grey-brown bark, ascending zigzag branches, and an open, airy, feathery crown. Foliage of pinnate leaves with many small rounded light-green leaflets, light and lacy, so sky shows through the whole crown. Pendulous clusters of white pea flowers in late spring. Reads thin and feathery next to oak or beech. Young tree 6 m, whippy and upright. Temperate lowland, roadsides, disturbed ground. Not the African acacia: no flat top, no thorns-dominated silhouette.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "black-mangrove", "common_name": "Black mangrove", "scientific_name": "Avicennia germinans", "description": "A salt-tolerant coastal tree or shrub with pencil-like pneumatophores rising from the mud and leathery, salt-crusted leaves.", "family": "Acanthaceae", "native_range": "Coastal tropical and subtropical Americas and West Africa, including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico coasts", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "black-poplar", "common_name": "Black Poplar", "scientific_name": "Populus nigra", "description": "A fast-growing riparian tree with deeply fissured dark bark, triangular leaves, and a broad, often leaning crown.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Europe, western Asia, northwest Africa", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "black-saxaul", "common_name": "Black Saxaul", "scientific_name": "Haloxylon aphyllum", "description": "A leafless, gnarled desert tree-shrub with jointed green photosynthetic twigs that forms open woodlands in saline desert soils of Central Asia.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Central Asian deserts (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Xinjiang)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "black-spruce", "common_name": "Black Spruce", "scientific_name": "Picea mariana", "description": "Stylized black spruce - reserved slug for the low-poly ladder partner (no assets yet; falls back to spruce).", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "black-spruce-leafy", "common_name": "Black Spruce (needle-card)", "scientific_name": "Picea mariana", "description": "Sub-arctic treeline spruce - stunted narrow spire, clumped crow's-nest top, sparse drooping lower branches. Needle-card asset.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "senegalia-mellifera", "common_name": "Blackthorn", "scientific_name": "Senegalia mellifera", "description": "A thorny, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree of arid southern African savanna with hooked spines and small bipinnate leaves.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana, South Africa)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "blue-grama", "common_name": "Blue grama", "scientific_name": "Bouteloua gracilis", "description": "A warm-season, drought-tolerant shortgrass with distinctive comb-like, one-sided seed heads curving from slender stalks.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Great Plains and grasslands of North America, from Canada to Mexico", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "blueberry-leafy", "common_name": "Blueberry", "scientific_name": "Vaccinium corymbosum", "description": "A multi-stemmed woody shrub bearing clusters of small white urn-shaped flowers followed by sweet blue-black berries.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "blueberry", "common_name": "Blueberry", "scientific_name": "Vaccinium corymbosum", "description": "A multi-stemmed woody shrub bearing clusters of small white urn-shaped flowers followed by sweet blue-black berries.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bluebush", "common_name": "Bluebush", "scientific_name": "Maireana", "description": "A drought-tolerant grey-blue-foliaged Australian shrub common in saltbush/bluebush rangeland communities.", "family": "Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Australia (arid and semi-arid zones)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bog-bilberry", "common_name": "Bog bilberry", "scientific_name": "Vaccinium uliginosum", "description": "A low, spreading deciduous shrub of peat bogs and moorlands bearing dusty-blue, sweet-tart berries.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Circumboreal regions of Europe, Asia, and North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bog-birch-leafy", "common_name": "Bog Birch", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for tamarack)", "family": "sub-arctic muskeg shrub layer", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bog-birch", "common_name": "Bog Birch", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for tamarack)", "family": "sub-arctic muskeg shrub layer", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bog-rosemary", "common_name": "Bog Rosemary", "scientific_name": "Andromeda polifolia", "description": "A low evergreen shrub of acidic peat bogs with narrow, leathery, glaucous leaves and small pink urn-shaped flowers.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Northern temperate and subarctic peat bogs of Europe, Asia, and North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fuchsia-boliviana", "common_name": "Bolivian fuchsia", "scientific_name": "Fuchsia boliviana", "description": "A tender evergreen shrub with pendulous clusters of long tubular red-and-purple flowers favored by hummingbirds.", "family": "Onagraceae", "native_range": "Bolivia and Argentina (Andean valleys)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bracken-fern", "common_name": "Bracken fern", "scientific_name": "Pteridium aquilinum", "description": "A coarse, deciduous fern with tough triangular triply-pinnate fronds arising singly from far-creeping underground rhizomes, often forming dense colonies.", "family": "Dennstaedtiaceae", "native_range": "Nearly worldwide temperate and subtropical regions", "form": "fern", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "brazil-nut", "common_name": "Brazil nut tree", "scientific_name": "Bertholletia excelsa", "description": "A massive emergent rainforest tree bearing large woody pods that contain the edible Brazil nuts.", "family": "Lecythidaceae", "native_range": "Amazon rainforest (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Guyanas)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "breadfruit", "common_name": "Breadfruit", "scientific_name": "Artocarpus altilis", "description": "A tropical evergreen tree with large deeply lobed leaves and large starchy fruit, long cultivated as a staple crop across Pacific islands including Micronesia.", "family": "Moraceae", "native_range": "Pacific Islands, originally from New Guinea/Indo-Malayan region, widely cultivated in Micronesia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bromeliad", "common_name": "Bromeliad", "scientific_name": "Bromeliaceae spp.", "description": "A rosette-forming plant with stiff, often colorful strap-like leaves arranged to form a central water-holding cup.", "family": "Bromeliaceae", "native_range": "Tropical and subtropical Americas (one species in West Africa)", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "buffelgrass", "common_name": "Buffelgrass", "scientific_name": "Cenchrus ciliaris", "description": "A tough, drought-tolerant perennial bunchgrass with bristly seed clusters, widely spread as an invasive fire-fuel in arid regions.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Africa, Middle East, and southern Asia (invasive in Americas and Australia)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bulrush-leafy", "common_name": "Bulrush", "scientific_name": "Schoenoplectus lacustris", "description": "Rounder, softer and shorter than the reed and the cattail - the mid-height that stops a shoreline fringe being only two heights. A loose sheaf of smooth ROUND leafless stems to 1.1 m, each tapering to a fine point, with almost no leaf blade at all: the stem IS the plant. Near the top of some stems a small drooping cluster of red-brown spikelets sits off to one side. Fresh mid-green, glossy. The stems bend in gentle arcs rather than standing rigid, so a clump reads soft where reeds read stiff. Standing water 0 to 0.6 m deep.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere lake and pond margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bulrush", "common_name": "Bulrush", "scientific_name": "Schoenoplectus lacustris", "description": "Rounder, softer and shorter than the reed and the cattail - the mid-height that stops a shoreline fringe being only two heights. A loose sheaf of smooth ROUND leafless stems to 1.1 m, each tapering to a fine point, with almost no leaf blade at all: the stem IS the plant. Near the top of some stems a small drooping cluster of red-brown spikelets sits off to one side. Fresh mid-green, glossy. The stems bend in gentle arcs rather than standing rigid, so a clump reads soft where reeds read stiff. Standing water 0 to 0.6 m deep.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere lake and pond margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bunchberry", "common_name": "Bunchberry", "scientific_name": "Cornus canadensis", "description": "A low creeping woodland subshrub with whorled leaves, small white-bracted flower clusters, and bright red berry clusters in late summer.", "family": "Cornaceae", "native_range": "Boreal and northern temperate North America and northeastern Asia", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bush", "common_name": "Bush", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Small leafy shrub, common ground-cover vegetation alongside trees.", "family": "understory", "native_range": null, "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "mediterranean", "label": "Mediterranean", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bush-leafy", "common_name": "Bush (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Leaf-card variant of the procedural bush - alpha-cutout leaf spray cards over woody twigs, same lobe silhouette as the stylized bush.", "family": "understory", "native_range": null, "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bush-scan", "common_name": "Bush (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Fidelity rung 3 of the understory shrub: sprigs of real modelled leaf blades.", "family": "shrub", "native_range": null, "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 1.2 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cacao", "common_name": "cacao", "scientific_name": "Theobroma cacao", "description": "A small understory tree bearing large pods directly on its trunk and branches, containing seeds used to make chocolate.", "family": "Malvaceae", "native_range": "Tropical lowland rainforests of Central and South America (Amazon basin)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "calafate", "common_name": "Calafate", "scientific_name": "Berberis microphylla", "description": "A spiny, evergreen Patagonian shrub bearing small holly-like leaves and edible dark-blue berries.", "family": "Berberidaceae", "native_range": "Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "camel-thorn", "common_name": "Camel Thorn", "scientific_name": "Vachellia erioloba", "description": "A hardy, deep-rooted African tree with a rugged crown, dark seed pods, and formidable straight thorns, iconic of Kalahari savanna landscapes.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (Kalahari region)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "camphor-tree", "common_name": "Camphor Tree", "scientific_name": "Cinnamomum camphora", "description": "An evergreen broadleaf tree with glossy aromatic leaves that yield camphor oil when crushed.", "family": "Lauraceae", "native_range": "China, Japan, Taiwan", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "euphorbia-candelabrum", "common_name": "Candelabra tree", "scientific_name": "Euphorbia candelabrum", "description": "A large succulent tree of East African savannas with a branching, candelabra-like crown of spiny, leafless green stems.", "family": "Euphorbiaceae", "native_range": "East Africa, including Kenya highlands", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "candy-blossom", "common_name": "Candy Blossom Tree", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree \u2014 delicate puffy candy-pink canopy. Planned, not yet generated \u2014 see docs/storybook-style-plan.md.", "family": "storybook", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "mediterranean", "label": "Mediterranean", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "candy-blossom-leafy", "common_name": "Candy Blossom Tree", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree \u2014 delicate puffy candy-pink canopy. Planned, not yet generated \u2014 see docs/storybook-style-plan.md.", "family": "storybook", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "canola", "common_name": "canola", "scientific_name": "Brassica napus", "description": "An annual crop herb with bright yellow flowers grown for its oil-rich seeds.", "family": "Brassicaceae", "native_range": "Europe (cultivar group bred from rapeseed)", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "caragana", "common_name": "caragana", "scientific_name": "Caragana arborescens", "description": "A genus of hardy, drought-tolerant deciduous shrubs with pinnate leaves and yellow pea-like flowers, widely used for hedging and windbreaks.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Asia (varies by species)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cardon", "common_name": "Cardon", "scientific_name": "Echinopsis atacamensis", "description": "Andean giant cactus of the Calchaqui valleys: a tall fluted column with 20-40 fine ribs, usually armless or carrying one short stub arm, a woolly pale-cream apex where flowers and fruit cluster, and long golden spines bristling low on the trunk that thin with height. Distinct from the Sonoran saguaro by rib count and by the absence of its elbow arms.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "arid", "label": "Arid / Desert", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cardon-leafy", "common_name": "Cardon (spine-card)", "scientific_name": "Echinopsis atacamensis", "description": "Rung-2 tier of the cardon - baked waxy rib skin texture plus alpha-cutout spine-cluster cards on the areole rows. Same candelabra silhouette and heights as 'cardon'.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "carrot", "common_name": "Carrot", "scientific_name": "Daucus carota subsp. sativus", "description": "The garden carrot as it stands in the bed: a rosette of fine, lacy, upright tripinnate leaves over the orange shoulder the swelling taproot pushes up out of the soil. Grade-pivoted - z=0 is the soil line and the root stub continues below it, so a consumer drops it at terrain height and only the tops and the shoulder show. The catalog first food crop, grown for the farmland loop in Vocabi.", "family": "Apiaceae", "native_range": "Cultivated worldwide; wild ancestor Eurasian", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 0.32 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "carrot-leafy", "common_name": "Carrot", "scientific_name": "Daucus carota subsp. sativus", "description": "The garden carrot as it stands in the bed: a rosette of fine, lacy, upright tripinnate leaves over the orange shoulder the swelling taproot pushes up out of the soil. Grade-pivoted - z=0 is the soil line and the root stub continues below it, so a consumer drops it at terrain height and only the tops and the shoulder show. The catalog first food crop, grown for the farmland loop in Vocabi.", "family": "Apiaceae", "native_range": "Cultivated worldwide; wild ancestor Eurasian", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "carrot-pulled", "common_name": "Carrot (pulled)", "scientific_name": "Daucus carota subsp. sativus", "description": "A harvested carrot lying on its side with its greens flopped - the item in the hand, in the pack, offered to a horse, or dressing a market stall. Authored in its resting pose like a prop, so its registered height is the 4 cm across the shoulder, NOT the 44 cm length. Partner asset to carrot, which is the same plant still in the ground.", "family": "Apiaceae", "native_range": "Cultivated worldwide; wild ancestor Eurasian", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 0.04 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cassava", "common_name": "Cassava", "scientific_name": "Manihot esculenta", "description": "A woody shrub cultivated throughout the tropics for its starchy, edible tuberous roots.", "family": "Euphorbiaceae", "native_range": "South America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cattail-leafy", "common_name": "Cattail", "scientific_name": "Typha latifolia", "description": "Emergent freshwater reed, the single most legible cue that a body of water is fresh rather than salt. A tight basal clump of six to ten FLAT STRAP LEAVES 2-3 cm wide rising near-vertically to 1.6 m, arching only in the top third; among them one or two rigid ROUND stems each carrying the signature seed spike - a dense velvety dark-brown cylinder about 18 cm long and 2.5 cm thick, with a narrow pale spike of male flowers continuing a little above it. Leaf colour a flat grey-green. Stands in standing water 0 to 0.6 m deep in dense stands at the shore fringe. The spike is the silhouette: without it this is just a grass. Its whole 1.6 m is ABOVE the bed, base-center pivot at the mud.", "family": "Typhaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere freshwater margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cattail", "common_name": "Cattail", "scientific_name": "Typha latifolia", "description": "Emergent freshwater reed, the single most legible cue that a body of water is fresh rather than salt. A tight basal clump of six to ten FLAT STRAP LEAVES 2-3 cm wide rising near-vertically to 1.6 m, arching only in the top third; among them one or two rigid ROUND stems each carrying the signature seed spike - a dense velvety dark-brown cylinder about 18 cm long and 2.5 cm thick, with a narrow pale spike of male flowers continuing a little above it. Leaf colour a flat grey-green. Stands in standing water 0 to 0.6 m deep in dense stands at the shore fringe. The spike is the silhouette: without it this is just a grass. Its whole 1.6 m is ABOVE the bed, base-center pivot at the mud.", "family": "Typhaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere freshwater margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cecropia", "common_name": "Cecropia (embauba)", "scientific_name": "Cecropia sciadophylla", "description": "The pioneer that fills every light gap in a neotropical forest, and the anti-oak. A pale hollow candelabra bole, ringed with dark horizontal leaf scars, rising bare and forking only near the top into two to four upward-reaching limbs. Each limb is capped by a ROSETTE of very large palmate, deeply lobed parasol leaves held nearly horizontally. The read is a handful of parasols on a pale stick: almost no crown volume, all silhouette.", "family": "neotropical pioneer", "native_range": "Amazon and Atlantic forest gaps and river edges", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "tropical", "label": "Tropical", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": 6 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 16 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cecropia-leafy", "common_name": "Cecropia (embauba)", "scientific_name": "Cecropia sciadophylla", "description": "The pioneer that fills every light gap in a neotropical forest, and the anti-oak. A pale hollow candelabra bole, ringed with dark horizontal leaf scars, rising bare and forking only near the top into two to four upward-reaching limbs. Each limb is capped by a ROSETTE of very large palmate, deeply lobed parasol leaves held nearly horizontally. The read is a handful of parasols on a pale stick: almost no crown volume, all silhouette.", "family": "neotropical pioneer", "native_range": "Amazon and Atlantic forest gaps and river edges", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cerrado-gnarled-tree", "common_name": "Cerrado gnarled tree (pau-terra)", "scientific_name": "Qualea grandiflora", "description": "A twisted, thick-barked tree with contorted branches characteristic of the fire-adapted Brazilian Cerrado savanna woodland.", "family": "Vochysiaceae", "native_range": "Cerrado savanna of central Brazil", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "geoffroea-decorticans", "common_name": "Cha\u00f1ar", "scientific_name": "Geoffroea decorticans", "description": "A thorny, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree with peeling yellow-green bark, fragrant yellow pea-like flowers, and sweet edible drupes, well adapted to the dry Pampas climate.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Arid and semi-arid regions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "chanterelle", "common_name": "Chanterelle", "scientific_name": "Cantharellus cibarius", "description": "Chanterelle troop - golden funnel caps with wavy in-rolled rims and blunt decurrent false gills, scattered low across forest duff. One asset holds caps of MIXED AGE rather than a stage ladder. The forager edible: harvest states picked/regrowing ride the asset_condition axis via the fungus vertex key in COLOR_0.a.", "family": "fungus", "native_range": "temperate and boreal forests of the northern hemisphere", "form": "fungus", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "chanterelle-leafy", "common_name": "Chanterelle", "scientific_name": "Cantharellus cibarius", "description": "Chanterelle troop - golden funnel caps with wavy in-rolled rims and blunt decurrent false gills, scattered low across forest duff. One asset holds caps of MIXED AGE rather than a stage ladder. The forager edible: harvest states picked/regrowing ride the asset_condition axis via the fungus vertex key in COLOR_0.a.", "family": "fungus", "native_range": "temperate and boreal forests of the northern hemisphere", "form": "fungus", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cherry", "common_name": "Cherry", "scientific_name": "Prunus avium", "description": "A deciduous tree with a rounded crown, serrated leaves, showy white spring blossoms, and small red-to-dark stone fruits.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe and Western Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cherry-leafy", "common_name": "Cherry", "scientific_name": "Prunus avium", "description": "A deciduous tree with a rounded crown, serrated leaves, showy white spring blossoms, and small red-to-dark stone fruits.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe and Western Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "chilco", "common_name": "Chilco (Chilean fuchsia)", "scientific_name": "Fuchsia magellanica", "description": "A hardy, multi-stemmed shrub bearing pendulous red-and-purple tubular flowers, native to the temperate rainforests of southern South America.", "family": "Onagraceae", "native_range": "Southern Chile and Argentina", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cliff-buttress", "common_name": "Cliff Buttress", "scientific_name": null, "description": "A tall flat-faced rock mass meant to be repeated along a line to build a cliff face. Front and side planes are flat so neighbours abut; the face is a grid of separately-hulled blocks with wandering, tilted joints, so every joint is a real fracture line. Grade-pivoted: the registered 12 m is above the soil line and roughly 1.9 m more is buried, which is how it absorbs slope without tilting. Variants differ in fracture only, never in footprint.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cliff-buttress-leafy", "common_name": "Cliff Buttress", "scientific_name": null, "description": "A tall flat-faced rock mass meant to be repeated along a line to build a cliff face. Front and side planes are flat so neighbours abut; the face is a grid of separately-hulled blocks with wandering, tilted joints, so every joint is a real fracture line. Grade-pivoted: the registered 12 m is above the soil line and roughly 1.9 m more is buried, which is how it absorbs slope without tilting. Variants differ in fracture only, never in footprint.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "climbing-ivy-leafy", "common_name": "Climbing Ivy", "scientific_name": "Hedera helix", "description": "Wall-clinging ivy drape for the ruins-reclamation look - a planar drape-able sheet, base pivot at the wall foot; the consumer positions it flush against its own masonry and scales to its wall.", "family": "Araliaceae", "native_range": "Europe and western Asia", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "climbing-ivy", "common_name": "Climbing Ivy", "scientific_name": "Hedera helix", "description": "Wall-clinging ivy drape for the ruins-reclamation look - a planar drape-able sheet, base pivot at the wall foot; the consumer positions it flush against its own masonry and scales to its wall.", "family": "Araliaceae", "native_range": "Europe and western Asia", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cloudberry", "common_name": "Cloudberry", "scientific_name": "Rubus chamaemorus", "description": "A low boreal perennial forming creeping stems with amber-colored fruit resembling a raspberry, found in bogs and tundra.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Circumboreal: northern Europe, Siberia, Arctic North America", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "redwood", "common_name": "Coast Redwood", "scientific_name": "Sequoia sempervirens", "description": "A towering evergreen conifer with reddish fibrous bark, ranking among the tallest living trees on Earth.", "family": "Cupressaceae", "native_range": "coastal northern California and southwestern Oregon, USA", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "redwood-leafy", "common_name": "Coast Redwood", "scientific_name": "Sequoia sempervirens", "description": "A towering evergreen conifer with reddish fibrous bark, ranking among the tallest living trees on Earth.", "family": "Cupressaceae", "native_range": "coastal northern California and southwestern Oregon, USA", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "coconut", "common_name": "Coconut Palm", "scientific_name": "Cocos nucifera", "description": "A tall tropical palm with a slender, often leaning trunk topped by a crown of large pinnate fronds and bearing large fibrous drupes known as coconuts.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Tropical coastal regions of the Indo-Pacific", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "coconut-leafy", "common_name": "Coconut Palm (frond-card)", "scientific_name": "Cocos nucifera", "description": "Rung 2 of grow_coconut.py: leaning ringed stipe and a looser, longer-fronded crown than the date palm, built as frond cards. The lean is the silhouette - a coconut that stands straight reads as the wrong tree. Vocabi P2, the other half of the coastal pack. The stylized solid coconut remains the coconut species.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Tropical coasts", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "coffee", "common_name": "coffee", "scientific_name": "Coffea", "description": "A genus of tropical evergreen shrubs or small trees whose seeds are roasted to produce coffee.", "family": "Rubiaceae", "native_range": "tropical Africa and Madagascar (varies by species)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "colocynth", "common_name": "Colocynth", "scientific_name": "Citrullus colocynthis", "description": "A desert-trailing vine bearing small hard-rinded bitter fruit historically used as a purgative and in traditional medicine.", "family": "Cucurbitaceae", "native_range": "Mediterranean Basin, North Africa, and Western Asia", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "common-hornbeam", "common_name": "Common hornbeam", "scientific_name": "Carpinus betulus", "description": "A deciduous tree with fluted gray bark, serrated ovate leaves, and distinctive pendulous clusters of winged nutlets.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": "Europe and Western Asia, including northern Turkey", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "common-milkweed", "common_name": "Common milkweed", "scientific_name": "Asclepias syriaca", "description": "A tall, colony-forming perennial herb with broad opposite leaves, fragrant pink-purple umbels, and milky latex sap, native to Wisconsin and the broader temperate eastern North American region.", "family": "Apocynaceae", "native_range": "Eastern and central North America", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "common-nettle", "common_name": "common nettle", "scientific_name": "Urtica dioica", "description": "A herbaceous perennial covered in stinging hairs, bearing small greenish flowers in drooping clusters.", "family": "Urticaceae", "native_range": "Europe, Asia, and North Africa", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "poppy", "common_name": "Common poppy", "scientific_name": "Papaver rhoeas", "description": "A single-species annual of disturbed ground bearing one large scarlet-red bowl of four crumpled, tissue-thin petals with a black basal blotch and a dark ringed centre, nodding on a slender bristly stem. ONE species only, never a mixed clump: the crinkled, just-unfurled petal texture is the whole character. About 0.55 m tall. A DISC silhouette.", "family": "Papaveraceae", "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "common-reed", "common_name": "Common Reed", "scientific_name": "Phragmites australis", "description": "The workhorse of a reed bed. Tall STIFF cane-like culms to 2 m, unbranched, each carrying long narrow leaves 1-2 cm wide that spread out and DOWNWARD at roughly 45 degrees along the whole stem rather than only from the base - that alternating leaf ladder up a straight cane is what separates a reed from a tuft of grass. Tops in a loose feathery purple-brown plume that droops to one side. Pale straw-green stems, grey-green leaves. Grows in dense uniform stands in water 0 to 0.6 m deep. Wants a strong variant spread: a reed bed is a texture, and one silhouette repeated reads as tiling.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Cosmopolitan freshwater and brackish margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "common-reed-leafy", "common_name": "Common Reed", "scientific_name": "Phragmites australis", "description": "The workhorse of a reed bed. Tall STIFF cane-like culms to 2 m, unbranched, each carrying long narrow leaves 1-2 cm wide that spread out and DOWNWARD at roughly 45 degrees along the whole stem rather than only from the base - that alternating leaf ladder up a straight cane is what separates a reed from a tuft of grass. Tops in a loose feathery purple-brown plume that droops to one side. Pale straw-green stems, grey-green leaves. Grows in dense uniform stands in water 0 to 0.6 m deep. Wants a strong variant spread: a reed bed is a texture, and one silhouette repeated reads as tiling.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Cosmopolitan freshwater and brackish margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "haumania-danckelmaniana", "common_name": "Congo liane (ngasi)", "scientific_name": "Haumania danckelmaniana", "description": "A scrambling, spiny-stemmed liane of Congo Basin rainforest understory, used locally for basketry and traditional construction.", "family": "Marantaceae", "native_range": "Central Africa (Congo Basin, including DR Congo)", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "coolibah", "common_name": "Coolibah", "scientific_name": "Eucalyptus coolabah", "description": "A gnarled, spreading eucalypt with pale rough-barked trunk and lance-shaped grey-green leaves, typically lining dry watercourses and floodplains in inland Australia.", "family": "Myrtaceae", "native_range": "Interior Australia, along ephemeral watercourses and floodplains", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cork-oak", "common_name": "Cork Oak", "scientific_name": "Quercus suber", "description": "An evergreen oak tree with a thick, rugged, spongy bark that is harvested commercially for cork and a broad crown of leathery dark-green leaves.", "family": "Fagaceae", "native_range": "Western Mediterranean region of southwest Europe and northwest Africa", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cornflower", "common_name": "Cornflower", "scientific_name": "Centaurea cyanus", "description": "A single-species cornfield annual bearing intense violet-blue flower heads of ragged, deeply fringed outer florets flaring from a tight scaly bud, on slim grey-green wiry stems with narrow leaves. ONE species only, never a mixed clump: the colour is a pure saturated blue found almost nowhere else in a meadow, and the fringed outline is the shape. About 0.6 m tall. A DISC silhouette.", "family": "Asteraceae", "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cotton", "common_name": "Cotton", "scientific_name": "Gossypium", "description": "A shrub cultivated for the soft fibers surrounding its seeds, used to make textiles.", "family": "Malvaceae", "native_range": "Tropical and subtropical regions worldwide", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cotton-grass", "common_name": "cotton grass", "scientific_name": "Eriophorum", "description": "A tussock-forming sedge of boggy, acidic ground bearing cotton-tuft seed heads in summer.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Northern Hemisphere bogs and tundra", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cottongrass", "common_name": "Cottongrass", "scientific_name": "Eriophorum", "description": "A tufted sedge of peat bogs and wet tundra bearing distinctive cotton-like white fluffy seed heads.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Arctic, subarctic, and temperate boggy regions of the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cottonwood-leafy", "common_name": "Cottonwood", "scientific_name": "Populus deltoides", "description": "A fast-growing deciduous tree with a broad crown, triangular toothed leaves, and cottony seed tufts that drift on the wind in early summer.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cottonwood", "common_name": "Cottonwood", "scientific_name": "Populus deltoides", "description": "A fast-growing deciduous tree with a broad crown, triangular toothed leaves, and cottony seed tufts that drift on the wind in early summer.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "crack-willow", "common_name": "Crack willow", "scientific_name": "Salix fragilis", "description": "A fast-growing riverside tree with a broad crown and narrow lance-shaped leaves, named for its twigs that snap cleanly at the base.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Europe and western Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "cram-cram-grass", "common_name": "Cram-cram grass", "scientific_name": "Cenchrus biflorus", "description": "A wiry annual grass of arid Sahelian sands bearing spiny, bur-like seed clusters that cling to passing animals and clothing.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Sahel and arid tropical Africa, including Chad", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "crowberry", "common_name": "crowberry", "scientific_name": "Empetrum", "description": "A low-growing evergreen dwarf shrub bearing small black berry-like fruits, common in heath and tundra habitats.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Northern hemisphere arctic and temperate regions", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "dahurian-larch", "common_name": "Dahurian larch", "scientific_name": "Larix gmelinii", "description": "A cold-hardy deciduous conifer with a narrow crown and soft needles that turn golden before falling, forming vast boreal forests across eastern Siberia.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Siberia and Russian Far East, including Khabarovsk Krai", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "darwin-stringybark", "common_name": "Darwin stringybark", "scientific_name": "Eucalyptus tetrodonta", "description": "A tall tropical eucalypt with thick fibrous stringy bark and a spreading crown, dominant in northern Australian savanna woodlands.", "family": "Myrtaceae", "native_range": "Tropical northern Australia (Northern Territory, Kimberley, Cape York)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "date-palm", "common_name": "Date palm", "scientific_name": "Phoenix dactylifera", "description": "An unbranched palm with a rough fibrous trunk topped by a crown of pinnate fronds, cultivated for its sweet edible dates.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Middle East and North Africa", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "desert-bloodwood", "common_name": "Desert Bloodwood", "scientific_name": "Corymbia opaca", "description": "A medium-sized tree with rough, tessellated bark, a spreading crown, and clusters of cream flowers followed by urn-shaped woody fruits, often oozing dark red kino from wounds.", "family": "Myrtaceae", "native_range": "Arid and semi-arid inland Australia, including the Kimberley region of Western Australia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "desert-date", "common_name": "Desert Date", "scientific_name": "Balanites aegyptiacus", "description": "A thorny, drought-tolerant tree bearing bitter-sweet, date-like fruit prized for food, oil, and traditional medicine.", "family": "Zygophyllaceae", "native_range": "Arid and semi-arid Africa, parts of the Middle East and South Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sparse-desert-grass", "common_name": "desert grass", "scientific_name": "Poaceae sp.", "description": "A generic term for drought-adapted, clump-forming grasses that grow sparsely across arid desert landscapes.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "arid and semi-arid regions worldwide", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "desert-oak", "common_name": "Desert Oak", "scientific_name": "Allocasuarina decaisneana", "description": "A slow-growing, deep-rooted tree of the Australian outback with a rough furrowed trunk and drooping needle-like branchlets that give it an oak-like silhouette despite being unrelated to true oaks.", "family": "Casuarinaceae", "native_range": "Central Australian deserts (Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "desert-saltbush", "common_name": "Desert saltbush", "scientific_name": "Atriplex leucoclada", "description": "A low, grayish-silver branching shrub with small scaly leaves adapted to saline and arid desert soils.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Arid regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, including the Arabian Peninsula", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "desert-thorn", "common_name": "desert thorn", "scientific_name": "Lycium", "description": "A spiny, drought-tolerant shrub bearing small tubular flowers and berry-like fruits, found in arid and semi-arid habitats worldwide.", "family": "Solanaceae", "native_range": "varies by species; arid regions of North America, South America, Africa, Asia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "diamond-leaf-willow", "common_name": "Diamond-leaf willow", "scientific_name": "Salix pulchra", "description": "A low, multi-stemmed Arctic willow with diamond-shaped, glossy leaves forming dense tundra thickets.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and subarctic Siberia, Alaska, and northwestern Canada", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "zygophyllum-stapffii", "common_name": "Dollar bush", "scientific_name": "Zygophyllum stapffii", "description": "A dwarf, fleshy-stemmed succulent shrub of the Namib coastal desert, with round jointed stems and small paired succulent leaves adapted to fog-based moisture.", "family": "Zygophyllaceae", "native_range": "Coastal Namib Desert, Namibia and southern Angola", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "douglas-fir", "common_name": "Douglas-fir", "scientific_name": "Pseudotsuga menziesii", "description": "A large evergreen conifer with a straight central leader, soft flat needles, and distinctive cones bearing three-pronged bracts.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Western North America", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "doum-palm", "common_name": "Doum Palm", "scientific_name": "Hyphaene thebaica", "description": "A distinctive palm notable for its forked, branching trunk topped with fan-shaped fronds and fibrous, edible fruit.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Nile Valley, North Africa, and parts of the Middle East", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "downy-birch", "common_name": "Downy birch", "scientific_name": "Betula pubescens", "description": "A cold-hardy deciduous tree with slender drooping branches, downy young shoots, and small serrated leaves, common in wet and northern woodlands.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": "Northern and central Europe and Asia, including boreal and subarctic regions", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "durian", "common_name": "durian", "scientific_name": "Durio zibethinus", "description": "A large tropical tree bearing spiky, pungent-smelling fruit prized across Southeast Asia.", "family": "Malvaceae", "native_range": "Southeast Asia (Borneo, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "dwarf-birch", "common_name": "dwarf birch", "scientific_name": "Betula nana", "description": "A low, multi-stemmed shrub with small rounded, scalloped leaves that turn red in autumn, common in tundra and bog habitats.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "dwarf-papyrus", "common_name": "Dwarf Papyrus", "scientific_name": "Cyperus prolifer", "description": "A compact aquatic sedge forming clumps of slender stems topped with dense, spiky umbels of thread-like bracts.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "eastern-hemlock", "common_name": "Eastern Hemlock", "scientific_name": "Tsuga canadensis", "description": "A graceful evergreen conifer with a central leader, drooping branch tips, and flat, short needles that are dark green above and pale beneath.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "eastern North America", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "eastern-red-cedar", "common_name": "Eastern Red Cedar", "scientific_name": "Juniperus virginiana", "description": "A hardy, slow-growing coniferous tree with dense, aromatic, scale-like foliage and small blue-gray berry-like cones, common throughout the eastern United States.", "family": "Cupressaceae", "native_range": "Eastern and Central North America", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "eastern-white-cedar-leafy", "common_name": "Eastern White Cedar", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for tamarack)", "family": "cedar swamp / wet boreal (Ontario icon)", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "eastern-white-cedar", "common_name": "Eastern White Cedar", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for tamarack)", "family": "cedar swamp / wet boreal (Ontario icon)", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pinus-strobus", "common_name": "Eastern White Pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus strobus", "description": "A tall, fast-growing conifer with soft, bluish-green needles in bundles of five and a straight trunk supporting a pyramidal to irregular crown.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "elephant-grass", "common_name": "Elephant grass", "scientific_name": "Cenchrus purpureus", "description": "A tall, robust perennial grass with thick stems and broad leaf blades, widely grown as fodder and for erosion control.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Sub-Saharan Africa", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "esparto-grass", "common_name": "Esparto grass", "scientific_name": "Stipa tenacissima", "description": "A tough, drought-tolerant perennial bunchgrass with wiry, rolled blue-green leaves used traditionally for esparto fiber.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Western Mediterranean: southern Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "european-aspen", "common_name": "European aspen", "scientific_name": "Populus tremula", "description": "A slender deciduous tree with rounded, long-stalked leaves that tremble and flutter in the slightest breeze.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Europe and parts of Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "crab-apple", "common_name": "European crab apple", "scientific_name": "Malus sylvestris", "description": "A small deciduous tree bearing sour, small yellow-green to red fruit and white to pink spring blossom.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe and western Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fallen-log", "common_name": "Fallen Log", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Mossy fallen trunk lying on the forest floor, broken ends and branch stubs.", "family": "deadwood", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fallen-log-leafy", "common_name": "Fallen Log", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Mossy fallen trunk lying on the forest floor, broken ends and branch stubs.", "family": "deadwood", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": 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ONE species only, never a mixed clump. About 1.4 m tall and deliberately taller than the meadow around it. 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One asset holds caps of MIXED AGE (button, opening, flat-open) rather than a stage ladder. Forageable for Yarrow (Villiagers): harvest states picked/regrowing ride the asset_condition axis via the fungus vertex key in COLOR_0.a.", "family": "fungus", "native_range": "circumboreal - birch, pine and spruce woodland", "form": "fungus", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fly-agaric-leafy", "common_name": "Fly Agaric", "scientific_name": "Amanita muscaria", "description": "Fly agaric toadstool troop - scarlet cap flecked with white veil warts, ringed stem, bulbous volva base, rising from a small patch of forest duff. One asset holds caps of MIXED AGE (button, opening, flat-open) rather than a stage ladder. 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Ground prop, not vegetation; shares the asset pipeline for serving.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rock-leafy", "common_name": "Forest Boulder", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Weathered granite boulder with lichen patches. Ground prop, not vegetation; shares the asset pipeline for serving.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fern", "common_name": "Forest Fern", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Shade-loving forest-floor fern clump with arching fronds.", "family": "understory", "native_range": null, "form": "fern", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fringed-sagebrush", "common_name": "Fringed Sagebrush", "scientific_name": "Artemisia frigida", "description": "A low, mat-forming aromatic perennial with finely dissected, silvery-hairy leaves and small yellowish flower heads, common on dry prairie and steppe.", "family": "Asteraceae", "native_range": "Western and central North America, and Central Asia/Siberia", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fuchsia", "common_name": "Fuchsia", "scientific_name": "Fuchsia sp.", "description": "A shrub or small tree bearing pendulous, tubular, often bicolored flowers with prominent stamens.", "family": "Onagraceae", "native_range": "Central and South America, New Zealand", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tephrocactus-geometricus", "common_name": "Geometric Tephrocactus", "scientific_name": "Tephrocactus geometricus", "description": "A slow-growing dwarf cactus forming clusters of near-perfect spherical, geometrically segmented gray-green joints, prized by collectors for its symmetry.", "family": "Cactaceae", "native_range": "Argentina (Catamarca province)", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "ghaf-tree", "common_name": "Ghaf Tree", "scientific_name": "Prosopis cineraria", "description": "A deep-rooted, drought-tolerant tree with a gnarled trunk and sparse crown of small bipinnate leaves, vital to desert ecosystems of the Arabian Peninsula.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Arid regions of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, and northwest India", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "guadua-angustifolia", "common_name": "giant bamboo", "scientific_name": "Guadua angustifolia", "description": "A giant, thorny, woody bamboo forming dense clumps of tall culms used widely in construction throughout tropical South America.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Tropical South and Central America, including the Amazon basin of Peru", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "giant-swamp-taro", "common_name": "Giant swamp taro", "scientific_name": "Cyrtosperma merkusii", "description": "A large herbaceous aroid with massive sagittate leaves and an edible starchy corm, cultivated in flooded pits across Pacific atolls and lowland swamps.", "family": "Araceae", "native_range": "Tropical Asia and Pacific Islands, including New Guinea", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "gidgee", "common_name": "Gidgee", "scientific_name": "Acacia cambagei", "description": "A small, dense, dark-foliaged tree of Australia's arid interior with phyllodes instead of true leaves and a notoriously malodorous scent before rain.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Semi-arid inland Australia (Queensland, NSW, NT, SA)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "erratic-leafy", "common_name": "Glacial Erratic", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Giant transported boulder dropped by the ice: rounded by transport, split by frost, heavily lichened. Landmark ground prop placed on hostile ground via spec.landmarks; not vegetation.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "erratic", "common_name": "Glacial Erratic", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Giant transported boulder dropped by the ice: rounded by transport, split by frost, heavily lichened. 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Mineral ground micro-scatter for breaking up bare terrain between props. Height is the tallest chip, not the tile span.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "greenheart", "common_name": "Greenheart", "scientific_name": "Chlorocardium rodiei", "description": "A slow-growing tropical rainforest tree prized for its extremely dense, durable timber used in marine construction.", "family": "Lauraceae", "native_range": "Guiana Shield (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "grey-mangrove", "common_name": "Grey mangrove", "scientific_name": "Avicennia marina", "description": "A salt-tolerant intertidal tree with grey-green leaves, pale bark, and numerous pencil-like pneumatophores rising from the mud around its base.", "family": "Acanthaceae", "native_range": "Coasts of the Indo-Pacific, including northern Australia, New Guinea, and East Africa to the western Pacific", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "guadua-bamboo", "common_name": "Guadua bamboo", "scientific_name": "Guadua weberbaueri", "description": "A CLUMP-forming woody bamboo, not a tuft: many thin vertical culms springing from one base, each culm segmented by visible swollen node rings, arching outward and over near the top so the clump reads as collapsing away from its centre. Leaves are sparse thin sprays at the upper nodes only; the lower two thirds of every culm is bare cane. PHYTO_VARIETY 1 is the straighter, taller tagoara form with the lean reduced. Registered as graminoid because a bamboo is a grass, but the geometry is culms and not blades.", "family": "neotropical bamboo", "native_range": "Southwest Amazon bamboo forests", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "tropical", "label": "Tropical", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": 5 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 14 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "guadua-bamboo-leafy", "common_name": "Guadua bamboo", "scientific_name": "Guadua weberbaueri", "description": "A CLUMP-forming woody bamboo, not a tuft: many thin vertical culms springing from one base, each culm segmented by visible swollen node rings, arching outward and over near the top so the clump reads as collapsing away from its centre. Leaves are sparse thin sprays at the upper nodes only; the lower two thirds of every culm is bare cane. PHYTO_VARIETY 1 is the straighter, taller tagoara form with the lean reduced. Registered as graminoid because a bamboo is a grass, but the geometry is culms and not blades.", "family": "neotropical bamboo", "native_range": "Southwest Amazon bamboo forests", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "guava", "common_name": "guava", "scientific_name": "Psidium guajava", "description": "A small tropical tree or shrub bearing round to pear-shaped fruit with musky-sweet aromatic flesh.", "family": "Myrtaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Americas", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "guinea-grass", "common_name": "Guinea grass", "scientific_name": "Megathyrsus maximus", "description": "A tall, tussock-forming perennial grass with broad blades, widely grown and naturalized as fodder in warm regions worldwide.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Tropical and subtropical Africa", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "gum-arabic-tree", "common_name": "Gum Arabic Tree", "scientific_name": "Senegalia senegal", "description": "A thorny, drought-tolerant small tree of the Sahel prized for the edible gum exuded from its bark.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Sahel region of Africa, from Senegal to Sudan", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "gumbo-limbo", "common_name": "Gumbo limbo", "scientific_name": "Bursera simaruba", "description": "A fast-growing tropical tree with peeling coppery-red bark and resinous aromatic sap, common in lowland Honduras.", "family": "Burseraceae", "native_range": "Tropical Americas, including Central America and Honduras", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], 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"planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "hawthorn", "common_name": "Hawthorn", "scientific_name": "Crataegus monogyna", "description": "A thorny, multi-stemmed woody shrub or small tree bearing clusters of white spring blossoms and small red haw fruits.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "hazel", "common_name": "Hazel", "scientific_name": "Corylus", "description": "A deciduous shrub or small tree bearing edible nuts enclosed in leafy husks.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": "Temperate Northern Hemisphere", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "heather", "common_name": "Heather", "scientific_name": "Calluna vulgaris", "description": "A low evergreen shrub with tiny scale-like leaves and spikes of small pink-purple flowers, common on moorland and heathland.", "family": "Ericaceae", "native_range": "Europe and parts of Asia Minor", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "heliconia", "common_name": "Heliconia", "scientific_name": "Heliconia rostrata", "description": "A large rhizomatous herb bearing colorful, waxy, boat-shaped bracts arranged in a pendant or upright inflorescence.", "family": "Heliconiaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Central and South America", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "heliconia-leafy", "common_name": "Heliconia", "scientific_name": "Heliconia rostrata", "description": "A large rhizomatous herb bearing colorful, waxy, boat-shaped bracts arranged in a pendant or upright inflorescence.", "family": "Heliconiaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Central and South America", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "honey-locust", "common_name": "Honey Locust", "scientific_name": "Gleditsia triacanthos", "description": "Open-grown pasture hardwood - dark thorny furrowed trunk, high arching limbs into a broad vase crown, fine doubly-pinnate foliage that casts dappled shade, long twisted seed pods. Wilbur Wright used one at Huffman Prairie as the turning marker for the first complete circle, 1904. 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Vocabi P2 - one more broadleaf silhouette so the eastern broadleaf country is not oak-or-birch everywhere. 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ONE species only, never a mixed clump: the flowers are small and numerous rather than one large head, and the petal gloss is the defining feature. About 0.45 m tall. 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Fully procedural.", "family": "storybook", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 1 }, { "code": "mediterranean", "label": "Mediterranean", "suitability": 1 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moonpetal-cherry-leafy", "common_name": "Moonpetal Cherry", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for moon-lantern-tree)", "family": "enchanted / east-asia dual-use", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moonpetal-cherry", "common_name": "Moonpetal Cherry", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for moon-lantern-tree)", "family": "enchanted / east-asia dual-use", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "mopane", "common_name": "Mopane", "scientific_name": "Colophospermum mopane", "description": "A medium-sized tree with distinctive butterfly-shaped leaflets that dominates hot, dry lowland woodlands across southern Africa, often forming near-pure stands adjacent to miombo woodland.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (dry lowland regions, often on clay soils near miombo woodland margins)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "miombo-associate-mopane", "common_name": "Mopane", "scientific_name": "Colophospermum mopane", "description": "A drought-tolerant tree with distinctive butterfly-shaped leaflets, forming dense woodlands on heavy soils often bordering miombo (Brachystegia-dominated) woodland.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (Zambezian region, often adjacent to miombo woodlands)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "miombo-mopane", "common_name": "Mopane", "scientific_name": "Colophospermum mopane", "description": "A drought-tolerant tree with distinctive butterfly-shaped paired leaflets, often forming dense woodlands on nutrient-rich soils in southern African savanna regions associated with miombo ecosystems.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (miombo/mopane woodlands of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "miombo-mopane-associate", "common_name": "Mopane", "scientific_name": "Colophospermum mopane", "description": "A broadleaf tree with distinctive butterfly-shaped leaves that forms dense woodlands on hot, low-lying soils bordering miombo (Brachystegia) formations in southern Africa.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (drier lowveld, often adjoining miombo woodland)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moriche-palm", "common_name": "Moriche Palm", "scientific_name": "Mauritia flexuosa", "description": "A tall, unbranched wetland palm crowned with large fan-shaped fronds, growing in dense stands along rivers and swamps in the Amazon and Orinoco basins.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Tropical South America, especially the Amazon and Orinoco basins", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moso-bamboo", "common_name": "Moso bamboo", "scientific_name": "Phyllostachys edulis", "description": "A giant timber bamboo with thick culms reaching up to 20 meters, prized for construction, paper, and edible shoots.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "China and Taiwan", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moss-campion", "common_name": "Moss Campion", "scientific_name": "Silene acaulis", "description": "A low, cushion-forming alpine perennial with tiny pink flowers that hugs rocky tundra and mountain screes.", "family": "Caryophyllaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moss-patch", "common_name": "Moss Patch", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Near-flat moss cushion patch for ruins reclamation and damp ground cover - height is the tallest cushion top (twig-litter convention). Form unknown: a bryophyte sits outside the vascular habit taxonomy.", "family": "ground cover", "native_range": "cosmopolitan", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moss-patch-leafy", "common_name": "Moss Patch", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Near-flat moss cushion patch for ruins reclamation and damp ground cover - height is the tallest cushion top (twig-litter convention). Form unknown: a bryophyte sits outside the vascular habit taxonomy.", "family": "ground cover", "native_range": "cosmopolitan", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "mountain-ash", "common_name": "Mountain Ash", "scientific_name": "Sorbus aucuparia", "description": "A small to medium deciduous tree with pinnate leaves, clusters of creamy-white flowers, and bright orange-red berries.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe and parts of Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "mountain-avens", "common_name": "Mountain avens", "scientific_name": "Dryas octopetala", "description": "A low, mat-forming evergreen subshrub with eight-petaled white flowers and feathery seed heads found in tundra and alpine habitats.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "msasa", "common_name": "Msasa", "scientific_name": "Brachystegia spiciformis", "description": "A medium-to-large deciduous tree with a spreading, flat-topped crown, known for its vivid reddish new foliage flush at the start of the rainy season.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Miombo woodlands of south-central Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "msuku", "common_name": "Msuku tree", "scientific_name": "Uapaca kirkiana", "description": "A medium-sized deciduous tree of miombo woodland bearing sweet, edible yellow-brown fruits prized locally.", "family": "Phyllanthaceae", "native_range": "Miombo woodlands of south-central Africa (Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "mulga", "common_name": "Mulga", "scientific_name": "Acacia aneura", "description": "A drought-hardy Australian acacia forming a small tree or shrub with narrow grey-green phyllodes, dominant across vast arid woodlands.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Arid inland Australia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "murici", "common_name": "Murici", "scientific_name": "Byrsonima crassifolia", "description": "A small tropical tree or shrub bearing yellow, aromatic edible fruit, common in savannas and disturbed areas of Latin America.", "family": "Malpighiaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Americas (Mexico to Brazil, Caribbean)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "commiphora", "common_name": "myrrh tree", "scientific_name": "Commiphora", "description": "A genus of resinous, often thorny shrubs and small trees adapted to arid regions, many species yielding aromatic gum-resins such as myrrh.", "family": "Burseraceae", "native_range": "Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar (dry regions)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "native-fuchsia", "common_name": "native fuchsia", "scientific_name": "Correa spp.", "description": "A common name applied to several unrelated shrubs with pendant tubular flowers resembling true fuchsias.", "family": "Rutaceae / Onagraceae", "native_range": "Australia and New Zealand (varies by species)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "needle-and-thread-grass", "common_name": "Needle-and-thread grass", "scientific_name": "Hesperostipa comata", "description": "A drought-tolerant bunchgrass of prairies and sandy plains, bearing long twisted awns on sharp, needle-like seeds.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Western and central North America, including the Canadian prairies", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "neem", "common_name": "Neem", "scientific_name": "Azadirachta indica", "description": "A fast-growing evergreen tree with pinnate leaves and small white flowers, prized for its medicinal and pesticidal properties.", "family": "Meliaceae", "native_range": "Indian subcontinent", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "neneo", "common_name": "neneo", "scientific_name": "Mulinum spinosum", "description": "A low, spiny, cushion-forming shrub of Patagonian steppe with rigid spine-tipped leaves and small yellow flowers.", "family": "Apiaceae", "native_range": "Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "neneo-shrub", "common_name": "neneo", "scientific_name": "Mulinum spinosum", "description": "A spiny, cushion-forming shrub of Patagonian steppe with rigid, pungent-tipped leaves and small yellow umbel flowers.", "family": "Apiaceae", "native_range": "Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "net-veined-willow", "common_name": "Net-veined willow", "scientific_name": "Salix reticulata", "description": "A prostrate dwarf willow with rounded, deeply net-veined leaves forming mats on arctic and alpine tundra.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and subarctic tundra of Eurasia and North America, including Chukotka", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "new-guinea-rosewood", "common_name": "New Guinea Rosewood", "scientific_name": "Pterocarpus indicus", "description": "A large tropical tree with a broad buttressed trunk, pinnate leaves, and fragrant yellow flowers, prized for its rich reddish timber.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the western Pacific islands", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "nipa-palm", "common_name": "Nipa Palm", "scientific_name": "Nypa fruticans", "description": "A mangrove palm with a subterranean, branching stem and large feathery fronds rising directly from the mud in brackish tidal waters.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Coastal mangroves and estuaries of South and Southeast Asia, and northern Australia", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "white-cedar", "common_name": "Northern White Cedar", "scientific_name": "Thuja occidentalis", "description": "An evergreen coniferous tree with a central leader and flattened, scale-like foliage arranged in fan-shaped sprays, native to cool, moist woodlands and rocky shores.", "family": "Cupressaceae", "native_range": "eastern North America", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "norway-spruce", "common_name": "Norway Spruce", "scientific_name": "Picea abies", "description": "Tall narrow conifer spire - level branch shelves with deeply pendulous needle curtains, red-brown bark, nodding leader. Fully procedural.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "norway-spruce-leafy", "common_name": "Norway Spruce (needle-card)", "scientific_name": "Picea abies", "description": "High-detail Norway spruce - tall narrow cone, level branch shelves with pendulous needle-branchlet curtains hanging off them, dark green needles, red-brown trunk, nodding leader. The stylized norway-spruce remains the norway-spruce species.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "oak-scan", "common_name": "Oak", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 runs; silhouette QA needed (reads acacia-ish: sparse lobes, thin limbs)", "family": "temperate broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "oak", "common_name": "Oak", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 runs; silhouette QA needed (reads acacia-ish: sparse lobes, thin limbs)", "family": "temperate broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "oak-leafy", "common_name": "Oak (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Quercus robur", "description": "High-detail English oak - rung 2 of the QA-passed grow_oak.py silhouette: short massive bole, heavy low limbs, one dense billowing dome. Leaf-card canopy of round-lobed robur puffs over baked ridged hardwood bark. 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Draft; no assets yet.", "family": "broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "osage-orange", "common_name": "Osage Orange", "scientific_name": "Maclura pomifera", "description": "Planted across the Midwest as a stock-proof hedgerow before barbed wire - low, dense, many-stemmed and thorny, wider than tall, bearing large green hedge-apple fruit. Draft; no assets yet.", "family": "broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "daisy", "common_name": "Oxeye daisy", "scientific_name": "Leucanthemum vulgare", "description": "A single-species meadow perennial bearing one flat white daisy head with a flat golden-yellow disc centre, held face-up on a slender unbranched stem above a low rosette of dark toothed leaves. ONE species only, never a mixed clump: white ray florets, yellow eye, about 0.5 m tall. The silhouette to hit is a DISC read from above.", "family": "Asteraceae", "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "palm", "common_name": "Palm", "scientific_name": "Arecaceae sp.", "description": "Draft grower \u2014 syntax-checked; not yet test-rendered", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": null, "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "palm-leafy", "common_name": "Palm (frond-card)", "scientific_name": "Phoenix dactylifera", "description": "Rung 2 of grow_palm.py: fibrous unbranched stipe topped by a crown of arching pinnate fronds, built as frond cards rather than solid geometry. Form is palm, not broadleaf - no trunk-and-crown vocabulary, no canopy competition. Vocabi P2 for the south beach coastal pack. The stylized solid palm remains the palm species.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Warm arid and coastal", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pampas-grass", "common_name": "Pampas grass", "scientific_name": "Cortaderia selloana", "description": "A large clumping ornamental grass forming dense tussocks topped by tall plumed silvery-white flower spikes in late summer.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pandan-amaryllifolius", "common_name": "Pandan", "scientific_name": "Pandanus amaryllifolius", "description": "A fragrant, fan-leaved, sterile cultivar grown throughout Southeast Asia for its aromatic blades used in cooking.", "family": "Pandanaceae", "native_range": "Maritime Southeast Asia, including Borneo/Sarawak", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pandanus", "common_name": "Pandanus (Screw Pine)", "scientific_name": "Pandanus", "description": "A genus of tropical shrubs and trees with strap-like spiny leaves spirally arranged and prop roots.", "family": "Pandanaceae", "native_range": "Old World tropics and subtropics", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "panic-grass", "common_name": "panic grass", "scientific_name": "Panicum sp.", "description": "A genus of annual or perennial grasses with open branching panicles, widespread in grasslands and disturbed ground.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Cosmopolitan, especially warm temperate and tropical regions", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "calandrinia-balonensis", "common_name": "Parakeelya", "scientific_name": "Calandrinia balonensis", "description": "A fleshy-leaved desert succulent forb with bright magenta-pink flowers that carpets red sand plains after rain in arid Australia.", "family": "Montiaceae", "native_range": "Arid inland Australia, including central and northern Australian deserts", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "araucaria-angustifolia-leafy", "common_name": "Parana Pine", "scientific_name": "Araucaria angustifolia", "description": "A tall evergreen conifer of subtropical highland forest, the Parana pine develops a distinctive candelabra or inverted-umbrella crown carried atop a long, clean, columnar trunk. Its stiff, sharp, scale-like leaves clothe the upswept branch tips, and mature trees drop lower limbs to leave the flat crown floating high above the canopy. It is a keystone of the Atlantic Forest, now critically endangered from logging of its valuable timber.", "family": "Araucariaceae", "native_range": "Highlands of southern Brazil, extending into northeastern Argentina and southeastern Paraguay", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "araucaria-angustifolia", "common_name": "Parana Pine", "scientific_name": "Araucaria angustifolia", "description": "A tall evergreen conifer of subtropical highland forest, the Parana pine develops a distinctive candelabra or inverted-umbrella crown carried atop a long, clean, columnar trunk. Its stiff, sharp, scale-like leaves clothe the upswept branch tips, and mature trees drop lower limbs to leave the flat crown floating high above the canopy. It is a keystone of the Atlantic Forest, now critically endangered from logging of its valuable timber.", "family": "Araucariaceae", "native_range": "Highlands of southern Brazil, extending into northeastern Argentina and southeastern Paraguay", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "peach-tree", "common_name": "Peach", "scientific_name": "Prunus persica", "description": "A small deciduous tree with lance-shaped leaves and fragrant pink blossoms that yields fuzzy-skinned, sweet stone fruit.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Northwest China", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "peach", "common_name": "Peach", "scientific_name": "Prunus persica", "description": "A small deciduous tree with lance-shaped leaves and fragrant pink blossoms that give way to fuzzy-skinned, sweet stone fruit.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Northwest China", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "peach-palm", "common_name": "Peach Palm", "scientific_name": "Bactris gasipaes", "description": "A spiny, multi-stemmed palm cultivated throughout the Amazon for its starchy, nutritious orange fruit and edible heart of palm.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Amazon Basin and tropical Central/South America", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pearl-millet", "common_name": "Pearl Millet (Bajra)", "scientific_name": "Pennisetum glaucum", "description": "A drought-tolerant cereal grass with tall cylindrical spikes of grain, widely grown as a staple crop (bajra) in arid regions of Rajasthan.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Sub-Saharan Africa (Sahel region), widely cultivated in arid India including Rajasthan", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pebble-field", "common_name": "Pebble Field", "scientific_name": null, "description": "A tile of water-worn rounded pebbles, larger and visibly spaced, with coarse sand bedded between them. The spaced, paler counterpart to gravel-patch. Height is the tallest pebble, not the tile span.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pequi", "common_name": "Pequi tree", "scientific_name": "Caryocar brasiliense", "description": "A savanna tree of the Brazilian Cerrado bearing spiny-pitted edible fruits prized in regional cuisine.", "family": "Caryocaraceae", "native_range": "Cerrado savanna of central Brazil", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "perennial-ryegrass", "common_name": "Perennial ryegrass", "scientific_name": "Lolium perenne", "description": "A hardy, fine-bladed turf and forage grass forming dense tufted swards that regrow quickly after mowing or grazing.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Europe, temperate Asia, and North Africa", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "philodendron-vine", "common_name": "Philodendron", "scientific_name": "Philodendron hederaceum", "description": "A climbing aroid with glossy heart-shaped leaves that clings to trees using aerial roots.", "family": "Araceae", "native_range": "Central America and the Caribbean", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pin-cherry", "common_name": "Pin Cherry", "scientific_name": "Prunus pensylvanica", "description": "A small, fast-growing pioneer tree with slender branches, glossy lance-shaped leaves, and clusters of small bright-red sour cherries.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Northern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pine", "common_name": "Pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus", "description": "Evergreen conifer with tall straight trunk and needle clusters.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "old", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pine-leafy", "common_name": "Pine (needle-card)", "scientific_name": "Pinus", "description": "High-detail pine - the classic tall pine of pine-ridge: straight trunk, reddish flaky bark, regular branch whorls, deep-green needle brushes at branch ends. The stylized solid pine remains the pine species.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pink-muhly-grass-leafy", "common_name": "Pink Muhly Grass", "scientific_name": "Muhlenbergia capillaris", "description": "A warm-season ornamental grass forming airy clumps that erupt in clouds of pink-to-purplish inflorescences in autumn.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Eastern and central United States", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pink-muhly-grass", "common_name": "Pink Muhly Grass", "scientific_name": "Muhlenbergia capillaris", "description": "A warm-season ornamental grass forming airy clumps that erupt in clouds of pink-to-purplish inflorescences in autumn.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Eastern and central United States", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "prun", "common_name": "Plum tree", "scientific_name": "Prunus domestica", "description": "The village plum of Romania, the tuica tree in every yard and along every field edge. A small, crooked, open-crowned fruit tree about 5 m tall: a short leaning dark-brown trunk with rough, slightly peeling bark, forking at head height into a few twisted, spreading, somewhat drooping branches with a tangle of short spurs. Sparse-to-medium foliage of small matte oval dark-green leaves, so the branch structure stays visible through the crown. Dark blue-purple oval plums with a pale bloom hang in clusters in late summer; a fruiting condition is wanted later. Young tree 2.5 m, thin and upright. Reads unmistakably as an orchard tree, never a forest tree.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "polar-grass", "common_name": "polar grass", "scientific_name": "Arctagrostis latifolia", "description": "A rhizomatous tussock-forming grass of Arctic tundra with broad flat leaf blades and a narrow panicle inflorescence.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Arctic tundra of North America, Europe, and Asia", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "ponytail-palm", "common_name": "Ponytail palm", "scientific_name": "Beaucarnea recurvata", "description": "A slow-growing succulent with a swollen bulb-like base storing water and a topknot of long, cascading strap-shaped leaves resembling a ponytail.", "family": "Asparagaceae", "native_range": "eastern Mexico", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "poplar", "common_name": "Poplar", "scientific_name": "Populus sp.", "description": "A fast-growing deciduous tree with triangular to oval leaves that tremble in the wind.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Northern Hemisphere temperate regions", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pothos", "common_name": "Pothos", "scientific_name": "Epipremnum aureum", "description": "A trailing or climbing tropical vine with glossy, heart-shaped leaves often marbled in yellow or white.", "family": "Araceae", "native_range": "Society Islands (native); widely naturalized in tropics", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "prickly-caragana", "common_name": "Prickly Caragana", "scientific_name": "Caragana spinosa", "description": "A dense, spiny, multi-stemmed shrub with small pinnate leaves and pale yellow pea-like flowers, grown for hedging and erosion control.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Central Asia (Siberia, Mongolia, western China)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "prickly-pear", "common_name": "Prickly pear", "scientific_name": "Opuntia ficus-indica", "description": "A segmented, pad-forming cactus bearing flattened green stems armed with spines and glochids, producing showy yellow flowers and edible reddish fruit.", "family": "Cactaceae", "native_range": "Mexico and the Americas", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "prickly-pear-leafy", "common_name": "Prickly pear (spine-card)", "scientific_name": "Opuntia", "description": "Rung-2 tier of the prickly pear - baked pad skin with areole dots, alpha-cutout spine tufts on the pad faces and rims, detailed tuna fruit. Same pad-chain silhouette and heights as 'prickly-pear'.", "family": "Cactaceae", "native_range": "Mexico and the Americas", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "kobresia-pygmaea", "common_name": "Pygmy kobresia", "scientific_name": "Kobresia pygmaea", "description": "A mat-forming sedge with tiny tufted culms that dominates alpine turf across the Tibetan Plateau.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Tibetan Plateau and alpine meadows of western China including Sichuan", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "queen-palm", "common_name": "Queen Palm", "scientific_name": "Syagrus romanzoffiana", "description": "A tall, fast-growing feather palm with a smooth gray trunk and a graceful crown of arching, glossy fronds.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "South America (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia)", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "queen-victoria-poppy", "common_name": "Queen Victoria Poppy", "scientific_name": "Papaver 'Queen Victoria'", "description": "A herbaceous ornamental poppy cultivar bearing large, ruffled petals on slender, hairy stems.", "family": "Papaveraceae", "native_range": "Cultivated origin, poppy species native to Europe and Asia", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "quiver-tree", "common_name": "Quiver tree", "scientific_name": "Aloidendron dichotomum", "description": "A striking tree-like aloe with a thick, smooth-barked trunk topped by a dichotomously branching crown of rosettes with succulent, serrated leaves.", "family": "Asphodelaceae", "native_range": "Namibia and South Africa (Northern Cape, Namaqualand, Sperrgebiet arid regions)", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "raphia-palm", "common_name": "raphia palm", "scientific_name": "Raphia", "description": "A genus of massive feather-leaved palms bearing some of the longest leaves in the plant kingdom, often growing in swampy lowland habitats.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Africa, with one species in Central/South America", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "raspberry-bramble-leafy", "common_name": "Raspberry", "scientific_name": "Rubus idaeus", "description": "A thicket-forming woody shrub with arching, prickly canes bearing compound leaves and clusters of sweet red aggregate fruits.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe and northern Asia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "raspberry-bramble", "common_name": "Raspberry", "scientific_name": "Rubus idaeus", "description": "A thicket-forming woody shrub with arching, prickly canes bearing compound leaves and clusters of sweet red aggregate fruits.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Europe and northern Asia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rattan", "common_name": "Rattan", "scientific_name": "Calamus", "description": "A climbing, spiny-stemmed palm whose long flexible canes are harvested for furniture and cordage.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Asia, Africa, Australasia", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rattan-palm", "common_name": "Rattan Palm", "scientific_name": "Calamus", "description": "A spiny climbing palm with long flexible stems used worldwide for cane furniture and weaving.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australasia", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-bog-moss", "common_name": "Red bog moss", "scientific_name": "Sphagnum magellanicum", "description": "A reddish-pigmented peat moss that forms dense, water-retentive hummocks in acidic bogs and mires.", "family": "Sphagnaceae", "native_range": "Cool temperate to subarctic peatlands of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including Europe, North America, and southern South America", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-mangrove", "common_name": "Red mangrove", "scientific_name": "Rhizophora mangle", "description": "A tropical coastal tree with distinctive arching prop roots that stabilize it in brackish tidal mud.", "family": "Rhizophoraceae", "native_range": "Atlantic coasts of tropical Americas and West Africa, including Brazil's Rio Grande do Norte coast", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-maple", "common_name": "Red Maple", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Acer rubrum. A medium deciduous tree with an oval-to-rounded crown, three-lobed toothed leaves on red petioles, and reddish twigs and buds. Among the first trees to turn in autumn, going brilliant scarlet to deep crimson.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-oak", "common_name": "Red Oak", "scientific_name": "Quercus rubra", "description": "A large deciduous tree with a broad rounded crown and lobed leaves whose pointed bristle-tipped lobes turn deep red in autumn.", "family": "Fagaceae", "native_range": "eastern and central North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-oat-grass", "common_name": "Red oat grass", "scientific_name": "Themeda triandra", "description": "THE grass of the African savanna, and the ground the acacia and the baobab stand in. A dense clump-forming tussock about 1.0 m tall and 0.5 m across: narrow blades 3-6 mm wide springing from one tight base, arching outward and then folding over near the tip so the clump has a fountain profile rather than a fan. The signature is the SEED HEAD - loose one-sided sprays held clear above the foliage on fine wiry stalks, each spikelet carrying a long bent awn that kinks at a sharp angle, so the top of the plant is a haze of dark bristles rather than a solid spike. Colour is the other half of the identity and it must not be spring green: the blades run bluish-green at the base grading to rusty red-brown over the upper third and through the whole seed head, which is where the name comes from and what makes a savanna read as dry standing hay rather than as a lawn. Card-based like grass-tuft: crossed alpha-masked blade quads, no tubes.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "African savanna, from the Sahel to the veld", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "tropical", "label": "Tropical", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "arid", "label": "Arid / Desert", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 1 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-oat-grass-leafy", "common_name": "Red oat grass", "scientific_name": "Themeda triandra", "description": "THE grass of the African savanna, and the ground the acacia and the baobab stand in. A dense clump-forming tussock about 1.0 m tall and 0.5 m across: narrow blades 3-6 mm wide springing from one tight base, arching outward and then folding over near the tip so the clump has a fountain profile rather than a fan. The signature is the SEED HEAD - loose one-sided sprays held clear above the foliage on fine wiry stalks, each spikelet carrying a long bent awn that kinks at a sharp angle, so the top of the plant is a haze of dark bristles rather than a solid spike. Colour is the other half of the identity and it must not be spring green: the blades run bluish-green at the base grading to rusty red-brown over the upper third and through the whole seed head, which is where the name comes from and what makes a savanna read as dry standing hay rather than as a lawn. Card-based like grass-tuft: crossed alpha-masked blade quads, no tubes.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "African savanna, from the Sahel to the veld", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-pine", "common_name": "Red Pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus resinosa", "description": "A straight-trunked evergreen conifer with reddish, scaly bark and paired long needles borne in whorled branch tiers.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Northeastern North America", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-osier-leafy", "common_name": "Red-osier dogwood", "scientific_name": "Cornus sericea", "description": "A multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with striking red winter stems, white flower clusters, and whitish berries favored by wildlife.", "family": "Cornaceae", "native_range": "North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "red-osier", "common_name": "Red-osier dogwood", "scientific_name": "Cornus sericea", "description": "A multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with striking red winter stems, white flower clusters, and whitish berries favored by wildlife.", "family": "Cornaceae", "native_range": "North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "reindeer-lichen", "common_name": "Reindeer Lichen", "scientific_name": "Cladonia rangiferina", "description": "A pale, branching, shrubby lichen that carpets boreal and tundra ground and forms a critical winter forage for caribou and reindeer.", "family": "Cladoniaceae", "native_range": "Arctic and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "retama", "common_name": "Retama", "scientific_name": "Retama", "description": "A genus of drought-tolerant, green-stemmed, nearly leafless broom shrubs native to the Mediterranean and North Africa.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Mediterranean region and North Africa", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rice", "common_name": "rice", "scientific_name": "Oryza sativa", "description": "Rice is a semi-aquatic annual grass cultivated worldwide for its starchy grain, the staple food for over half the world's population.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Asia (domesticated in the Yangtze and Ganges river basins)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rimth-haloxylon-salicornicum", "common_name": "Rimth", "scientific_name": "Haloxylon salicornicum", "description": "A low, densely branched desert shrub with jointed, succulent-looking green stems that act as the main photosynthetic organs, adapted to arid saline soils.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Arid deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and Middle East", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rimth", "common_name": "Rimth", "scientific_name": "Haloxylon salicornicum", "description": "A leafless, multi-stemmed desert shrub with jointed, succulent-looking green photosynthetic stems adapted to arid saline soils.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Deserts of Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and the Middle East", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rimth-saxaul-shrub", "common_name": "Rimth (Arthrophytum / Haloxylon shrub)", "scientific_name": "Haloxylon salicornicum", "description": "A low, multi-stemmed desert shrub with jointed, succulent-like green stems and tiny scale-leaves adapted to arid saline soils.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, Middle East, and North Africa", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rimth-saxaul", "common_name": "Rimth (Saxaul-like shrub)", "scientific_name": "Haloxylon salicornicum", "description": "A drought-tolerant, leafless desert shrub with jointed, succulent-like green stems that perform photosynthesis in place of leaves.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Arid deserts of the Middle East and North Africa (Arabian Peninsula, Sahara margins)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "river-cobble", "common_name": "River Cobble", "scientific_name": null, "description": "A single water-worn rounded stone, roughly 0.25 m, with a damp band low on its flank. Mineral scatter for waterlines and gravel bars; the bridge in size between pebble-field and rock. Variants are shapes (rounded, elongated, flat), not sizes.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "river-red-gum", "common_name": "River Red Gum", "scientific_name": "Eucalyptus camaldulensis", "description": "A large riverine eucalypt with smooth mottled bark and a spreading crown, found lining watercourses across much of mainland Australia.", "family": "Myrtaceae", "native_range": "Australia, especially along inland watercourses", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "royal-palm", "common_name": "royal palm", "scientific_name": "Roystonea", "description": "A stately palm with a smooth gray trunk topped by a dense crown of feathery pinnate fronds.", "family": "Arecaceae", "native_range": "Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rubber-rabbitbrush", "common_name": "Rubber Rabbitbrush", "scientific_name": "Ericameria nauseosa", "description": "A silvery-stemmed, multi-branched shrub of arid western rangelands bearing dense clusters of small yellow flowers in late summer.", "family": "Asteraceae", "native_range": "Western North America, including the Great Plains and Great Basin", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rubber-tree", "common_name": "rubber tree", "scientific_name": "Ficus elastica", "description": "A broadleaf evergreen tree with large, glossy, leathery leaves and milky latex sap, often grown as a houseplant.", "family": "Moraceae", "native_range": "Northeast India to Indonesia (also widely grown as houseplant/ornamental)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "rubber-vine", "common_name": "rubber vine", "scientific_name": "Cryptostegia grandiflora", "description": "A woody, milky-sapped climbing vine with glossy leaves and large pink-purple funnel-shaped flowers, notorious as an aggressive invasive weed.", "family": "Apocynaceae", "native_range": "Madagascar (widely invasive elsewhere, e.g. Australia)", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "caragana-frutex", "common_name": "Russian pea shrub", "scientific_name": "Caragana frutex", "description": "A dense, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with pinnate leaves and yellow pea-like flowers, native to the steppe regions of Orenburg Oblast.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Central and Eastern Europe through Siberia and Central Asia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sago-palm", "common_name": "Sago Palm", "scientific_name": "Cycas revoluta", "description": "A slow-growing cycad with a stout, unbranched trunk topped by a rosette of stiff, feather-like dark green fronds.", "family": "Cycadaceae", "native_range": "Southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands)", "form": "palm", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "saguaro", "common_name": "Saguaro", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 runs; arm reads as stub, top too pointed", "family": "desert", "native_range": null, "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "saguaro-leafy", "common_name": "Saguaro (spine-card)", "scientific_name": "Carnegiea gigantea", "description": "Rung-2 tier of the saguaro - baked waxy rib-and-areole skin texture that holds at walk distance, plus alpha-cutout spine-cluster cards on the areole rows. Same fluted column-and-arms silhouette and heights as 'saguaro'.", "family": "desert", "native_range": null, "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "gamba-grass", "common_name": "Sahel bluestem grass (Gamba grass)", "scientific_name": "Andropogon gayanus", "description": "A tall, tussock-forming perennial grass with blue-green blades and fluffy golden seed heads, widely used for forage and erosion control across the Sahel.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Tropical and subtropical Africa, including the Sahel belt from Senegal to Sudan", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "saltbush", "common_name": "saltbush", "scientific_name": "Atriplex", "description": "Saltbush is a hardy, salt-tolerant shrub genus with silvery-grey leaves found in arid and coastal habitats.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "varies by species; widespread arid and coastal regions worldwide", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tumbleweed-russian-thistle", "common_name": "Saltwort (Tumbleweed)", "scientific_name": "Salsola collina", "description": "An erect annual herb of arid steppe with narrow fleshy leaves and spiny bracts that breaks off at maturity to tumble and disperse seed.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Central Asia and Mongolia, steppe and desert habitats", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sandhill-wattle", "common_name": "Sandhill Wattle", "scientific_name": "Acacia ligulata", "description": "A hardy multi-stemmed shrub with phyllodes instead of true leaves and small golden ball-shaped flowers, adapted to sandy, arid soils.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Australia (arid and coastal sandy regions)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sapele", "common_name": "Sapele", "scientific_name": "Entandrophragma cylindricum", "description": "A large tropical hardwood tree valued for its interlocked, mahogany-like timber, native to West and Central African rainforests.", "family": "Meliaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Africa", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sausage-tree", "common_name": "Sausage Tree", "scientific_name": "Kigelia africana", "description": "A spreading African savanna tree bearing dark maroon trumpet flowers and massive sausage-shaped woody fruits hanging on long cords.", "family": "Bignoniaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Africa, including Zambia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "saxaul", "common_name": "Saxaul", "scientific_name": "Haloxylon ammodendron", "description": "A drought-tolerant desert shrub or small tree with jointed, leafless photosynthetic stems adapted to arid saline soils.", "family": "Amaranthaceae", "native_range": "Central Asian deserts (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Xinjiang)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "saxifrage", "common_name": "saxifrage", "scientific_name": "Saxifraga", "description": "A genus of low-growing, often mat-forming perennial herbs typically found in rocky or alpine habitats.", "family": "Saxifragaceae", "native_range": "Northern Hemisphere, especially arctic-alpine regions", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "pinus-sylvestris", "common_name": "Scots Pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus sylvestris", "description": "A tall evergreen conifer with a straight trunk, orange-tinged bark, and paired blue-green needles.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Europe and Asia", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "scottish-moss", "common_name": "Scottish Moss", "scientific_name": "Sagina subulata", "description": "A low, dense, moss-like mat-forming perennial with fine emerald foliage and tiny white star-shaped summer flowers, commonly used as a groundcover despite not being a true moss.", "family": "Caryophyllaceae", "native_range": "Western and Central Europe", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "screw-pine", "common_name": "screw pine", "scientific_name": "Pandanus", "description": "A generic name for palm-like tropical trees with stilt roots and spiral-arranged strap leaves.", "family": "Pandanaceae", "native_range": "Old World tropics (Africa to Pacific islands)", "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sedge-tuft", "common_name": "Sedge Tuft", "scientific_name": "Carex nigra", "description": "The wet-edge equivalent of grass-tuft, and the transition from standing water back to dry ground. A low fine dense clump 0.45 m across of narrow keeled leaves, 3-5 mm wide, arching outward from a tight base in every direction so the clump reads as a rounded cushion rather than a fan. A few slender triangular flowering stems stand above the foliage carrying short dark spikelets. Slightly darker and bluer green than a meadow grass, which is what makes a band of it read as WET ground. Waterlogged soil and water to 0.1 m.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere wet meadows and lake margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sedge-tuft-leafy", "common_name": "Sedge Tuft", "scientific_name": "Carex nigra", "description": "The wet-edge equivalent of grass-tuft, and the transition from standing water back to dry ground. A low fine dense clump 0.45 m across of narrow keeled leaves, 3-5 mm wide, arching outward from a tight base in every direction so the clump reads as a rounded cushion rather than a fan. A few slender triangular flowering stems stand above the foliage carrying short dark spikelets. Slightly darker and bluer green than a meadow grass, which is what makes a band of it read as WET ground. Waterlogged soil and water to 0.1 m.", "family": "Cyperaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere wet meadows and lake margins", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "serviceberry", "common_name": "Serviceberry", "scientific_name": "Amelanchier canadensis", "description": "A multi-stemmed woody shrub or small tree (Amelanchier canadensis): several slender gray stems fan from one root cluster in a vase and carry a loose mass of oval leaves in their upper half. GROWN LADEN WITH RIPE FRUIT, which is the point of this asset: small round pome berries about 1 cm across, ripening deep purple-blue to near-black with a faint waxy bloom, hanging in loose pendant clusters of 4 to 10 on short stalks under and between the leaves, spread through the upper two thirds of the shrub, plenty of them, so it reads as fruiting at arm's length on a phone. HARVEST KEY CONTRACT (same as grow_berry-bush.py, docs/berry-harvest-states.md): every berry vertex, and ONLY berry vertices, must carry COLOR_0.a exactly 0.95 (BERRY_SWAY); foliage sway stays at or below 0.75 and stems lower still, so nothing else may fall within 0.93 to 0.97. Each berry must be its OWN closed shell sharing no vertices with any stalk, leaf or stem, because condition.py strips and shrinks berries by connected keyed islands. Berry rgb a saturated deep purple-blue, clearly apart from any leaf green or bark gray. White spring flowers and fall colour are NOT wanted on this grow.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "serviceberry-leafy", "common_name": "Serviceberry", "scientific_name": "Amelanchier canadensis", "description": "A multi-stemmed woody shrub or small tree (Amelanchier canadensis): several slender gray stems fan from one root cluster in a vase and carry a loose mass of oval leaves in their upper half. GROWN LADEN WITH RIPE FRUIT, which is the point of this asset: small round pome berries about 1 cm across, ripening deep purple-blue to near-black with a faint waxy bloom, hanging in loose pendant clusters of 4 to 10 on short stalks under and between the leaves, spread through the upper two thirds of the shrub, plenty of them, so it reads as fruiting at arm's length on a phone. HARVEST KEY CONTRACT (same as grow_berry-bush.py, docs/berry-harvest-states.md): every berry vertex, and ONLY berry vertices, must carry COLOR_0.a exactly 0.95 (BERRY_SWAY); foliage sway stays at or below 0.75 and stems lower still, so nothing else may fall within 0.93 to 0.97. Each berry must be its OWN closed shell sharing no vertices with any stalk, leaf or stem, because condition.py strips and shrinks berries by connected keyed islands. Berry rgb a saturated deep purple-blue, clearly apart from any leaf green or bark gray. White spring flowers and fall colour are NOT wanted on this grow.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "shea-tree", "common_name": "Shea Tree", "scientific_name": "Vitellaria paradoxa", "description": "A slow-growing savanna tree bearing oil-rich nuts used to produce shea butter.", "family": "Sapotaceae", "native_range": "Sub-Saharan Africa savanna belt", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sheep-fescue", "common_name": "Sheep fescue", "scientific_name": "Festuca ovina", "description": "A fine-leaved, densely tufted perennial grass with blue-green bristle-like blades, common on dry grasslands and steppes.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Temperate Eurasia, including steppe regions of Inner Mongolia", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "shepherds-tree", "common_name": "Shepherd's Tree", "scientific_name": "Boscia albitrunca", "description": "A slow-growing, deep-rooted evergreen tree of arid southern African savannas with a pale trunk and dense rounded crown providing vital shade and fodder.", "family": "Capparaceae", "native_range": "Southern Africa (Kalahari region, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "monolith-leafy", "common_name": "Shield Monolith", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Fractured quartzite crag in the La Cloche style: tall near-vertical split columns, pale banded rock, shed blocks at the foot. Landmark ground prop, placed sparsely on hostile ground; not vegetation.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "monolith", "common_name": "Shield Monolith", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Fractured quartzite crag in the La Cloche style: tall near-vertical split columns, pale banded rock, shed blocks at the foot. Landmark ground prop, placed sparsely on hostile ground; not vegetation.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "siberian-dwarf-pine", "common_name": "Siberian dwarf pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus pumila", "description": "A low, sprawling, multi-stemmed conifer of subarctic and alpine zones bearing short needles in bundles of five and small purple-brown cones.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Northeast Asia (Siberia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russian Far East)", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "siberian-fir", "common_name": "Siberian fir", "scientific_name": "Abies sibirica", "description": "A tall boreal conifer with a slender spire-like crown, soft flat needles, and smooth gray bark, native to Siberian taiga forests.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Siberia and northeastern Europe/Russia", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "siberian-larch", "common_name": "Siberian larch", "scientific_name": "Larix sibirica", "description": "A cold-hardy deciduous conifer with soft needles in dense whorls that turn golden before dropping each autumn.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Siberia and northeastern European Russia", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "siberian-pea-shrub", "common_name": "Siberian pea shrub", "scientific_name": "Caragana arborescens", "description": "A cold-hardy, multi-stemmed leguminous shrub with pinnate leaves and yellow pea-like flowers, widely planted for shelterbelts and wildlife forage.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Siberia and Central Asia to Mongolia and northern China", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "siberian-spruce", "common_name": "Siberian spruce", "scientific_name": "Picea obovata", "description": "A cold-hardy evergreen conifer with a narrow conical crown, short needles, and pendulous cones, native to the taiga of Siberia.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Siberia and northeastern Europe", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sickle-bush", "common_name": "Sickle bush", "scientific_name": "Dichrostachys cinerea", "description": "A thorny, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree bearing bicolored pink-and-yellow pendulous flower spikes and twisted sickle-shaped seed pods.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia (including Tanzania)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "urochloa-decumbens", "common_name": "signal grass", "scientific_name": "Urochloa decumbens", "description": "A low-growing, stoloniferous perennial pasture grass forming dense mats of flat blades, widely planted for cattle forage in tropical Brazil.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Africa, widely introduced to Brazil as pasture grass", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "silver-birch", "common_name": "Silver birch", "scientific_name": "Betula pendula", "description": "A slender deciduous tree with white peeling bark and drooping branchlets bearing small triangular leaves.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": "Europe and parts of Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sitka-spruce", "common_name": "Sitka Spruce", "scientific_name": "Picea sitchensis", "description": "A tall coastal conifer with a straight central leader, whorled branch tiers, and sharp, flattened blue-green needles arising from woody pegs.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to Northern California", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "smooth-brome", "common_name": "Smooth brome", "scientific_name": "Bromus inermis", "description": "A sod-forming perennial grass with smooth, hairless leaf sheaths and a distinctive 'W'-shaped constriction on the blade, widely used for pasture and erosion control.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Eurasia (naturalized widely in temperate North America including Wisconsin)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sodom-apple", "common_name": "Sodom apple", "scientific_name": "Calotropis procera", "description": "A drought-tolerant shrub with pale gray-green leaves and large, papery inflated seed pods filled with silky-tufted seeds.", "family": "Apocynaceae", "native_range": "North Africa, Middle East, and tropical Asia; naturalized widely in arid regions", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sorghum", "common_name": "Sorghum (Jowar)", "scientific_name": "Sorghum bicolor", "description": "A tall cereal grass with broad blades and a dense terminal panicle of grain, widely grown as jowar across the Indian subcontinent.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Africa (cultivated widely in South Asia)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "soybean", "common_name": "Soybean", "scientific_name": "Glycine max", "description": "An erect annual legume cultivated worldwide for its protein- and oil-rich seeds borne in hairy pods.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "East Asia", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "speckled-alder", "common_name": "Speckled Alder", "scientific_name": "Alnus incana subsp. rugosa", "description": "A multi-stemmed wetland shrub with speckled bark, serrated ovate leaves, and pendant catkins that thrives along streambanks and swamps.", "family": "Betulaceae", "native_range": "Northeastern and north-central North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sphagnum-moss", "common_name": "sphagnum moss", "scientific_name": "Sphagnum sp.", "description": "A pale, water-absorbent moss that forms dense carpets in acidic bogs and gradually accumulates into peat.", "family": "Sphagnaceae", "native_range": "Northern Hemisphere bogs and peatlands, also Southern Hemisphere temperate wetlands", "form": "groundcover", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "spinifex", "common_name": "spinifex", "scientific_name": "Triodia", "description": "A hummock-forming, spiky-leaved perennial grass genus dominant across Australia's arid and semi-arid zones.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Arid Australia", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "spiral-pine", "common_name": "Spiral Pine", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree \u2014 spiral-twisted trunk, tiered scalloped teal canopy. Planned, not yet generated \u2014 see docs/storybook-style-plan.md.", "family": "storybook", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "mediterranean", "label": "Mediterranean", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "spiral-pine-leafy", "common_name": "Spiral Pine", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree \u2014 spiral-twisted trunk, tiered scalloped teal canopy. Planned, not yet generated \u2014 see docs/storybook-style-plan.md.", "family": "storybook", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "spruce", "common_name": "Spruce", "scientific_name": "Picea", "description": "Conical evergreen conifer with whorled, drooping branch tiers; a boreal forest staple. PhytoEngine's first fully procedural species, grown in Blender.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "spruce-leafy", "common_name": "Spruce (needle-card)", "scientific_name": "Picea", "description": "High-detail spruce variant - whorled branch skeleton with needle-spray cutout cards. The stylized skirt spruce remains the 'spruce' species.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "staghorn-sumac", "common_name": "Staghorn Sumac", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Rhus typhina. A colony-forming large shrub with few, thick, velvety antler-like branches, large pinnately compound frond-shaped leaves, and upright fuzzy crimson fruit cones held above the foliage. In autumn the fronds turn flame scarlet and orange.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "snag", "common_name": "Standing Snag", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Standing dead tree - bare weathered grey trunk with a broken top. Adds age and character to conifer and swamp stands.", "family": "deadwood", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "snag-leafy", "common_name": "Standing Snag (baked-bark)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Rung-2 baked-bark tier of the standing snag - no foliage; the fidelity upgrade is entirely bark detail: silvered ridged texture, open hollow top ringed by splinter shards, torn limb stubs and gaunt bare branches. The Meshy snag remains the 'snag' species.", "family": "deadwood", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "strangler-fig", "common_name": "Strangler fig", "scientific_name": "Ficus", "description": "A generic term for fig species that begin as epiphytes and grow around a host tree, eventually enveloping and sometimes outliving it.", "family": "Moraceae", "native_range": "Pantropical", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "subalpine-fir", "common_name": "Subalpine Fir", "scientific_name": "Abies lasiocarpa", "description": "A narrow, spire-shaped conifer with dense, upswept branches and smooth gray bark, adapted to high-elevation, snowy climates.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": "Western North America, high mountain elevations from Alaska to New Mexico", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sugar-maple-leafy", "common_name": "Sugar Maple", "scientific_name": "Acer saccharum", "description": "A large deciduous tree with a rounded crown and five-lobed leaves that turn brilliant orange and red in autumn, prized as the primary source of maple syrup.", "family": "Sapindaceae", "native_range": "eastern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sugar-maple", "common_name": "Sugar Maple", "scientific_name": "Acer saccharum", "description": "A large deciduous tree with a rounded crown and five-lobed leaves that turn brilliant orange and red in autumn, prized as the primary source of maple syrup.", "family": "Sapindaceae", "native_range": "eastern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sugarcane", "common_name": "sugarcane", "scientific_name": "Saccharum officinarum", "description": "A tall perennial grass with thick jointed stems rich in sucrose, cultivated widely in the tropics and subtropics for sugar production.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": "Southeast Asia and New Guinea (tropical)", "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sumauma", "common_name": "Sumauma (kapok)", "scientific_name": "Ceiba pentandra", "description": "The buttressed emergent of the Amazon, and the tree that stands a full canopy layer above everything else. A pale, almost white, straight cylindrical bole with no branching for most of its height; at the foot the mature tree grows flared plank BUTTRESS roots, thin vertical triangular webs running from the bole out to the ground. The crown is held only at the very top and is a WIDE FLAT umbrella, shallow and much wider than it is deep - the opposite of a rounded oak dome. Young specimens have no buttresses and a narrower crown. Grown to retire the baobab, which has been standing in for this tree in a Brazilian rainforest.", "family": "amazon emergent", "native_range": "Amazon basin and neotropics", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "tropical", "label": "Tropical", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": 14 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 38 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sumauma-leafy", "common_name": "Sumauma (kapok)", "scientific_name": "Ceiba pentandra", "description": "The buttressed emergent of the Amazon, and the tree that stands a full canopy layer above everything else. A pale, almost white, straight cylindrical bole with no branching for most of its height; at the foot the mature tree grows flared plank BUTTRESS roots, thin vertical triangular webs running from the bole out to the ground. The crown is held only at the very top and is a WIDE FLAT umbrella, shallow and much wider than it is deep - the opposite of a rounded oak dome. Young specimens have no buttresses and a narrower crown. Grown to retire the baobab, which has been standing in for this tree in a Brazilian rainforest.", "family": "amazon emergent", "native_range": "Amazon basin and neotropics", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sunflower", "common_name": "Sunflower", "scientific_name": "Helianthus", "description": "A tall annual forb with a large composite flower head that tracks the sun in youth.", "family": "Asteraceae", "native_range": "North America", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sweetgum", "common_name": "Sweetgum", "scientific_name": "Liquidambar styraciflua", "description": "A medium to large deciduous tree with star-shaped lobed leaves, spiny ball-shaped fruit, and corky-winged twigs, native to the bottomlands and uplands of the southeastern United States including Alabama.", "family": "Altingiaceae", "native_range": "Eastern and southeastern United States, including the Gulf Coastal Plain, extending into Mexico and Central America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "sword-fern", "common_name": "Sword Fern", "scientific_name": "Polystichum munitum", "description": "An evergreen fern forming a basal crown of erect, sword-shaped fronds with toothed, blade-like leaflets.", "family": "Dryopteridaceae", "native_range": "Western North America", "form": "fern", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tamarack", "common_name": "Tamarack", "scientific_name": "Larix laricina", "description": "Deciduous conifer of wet subarctic ground - straight slender bole, open airy crown of small needle rosettes strung along drooping-to-ascending branches, small upright rosy cones. Soft yellow-green in summer; turns gold and drops its needles in autumn (autumn variant awaits the seasons axis).", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": null }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tamarack-leafy", "common_name": "Tamarack (needle-card)", "scientific_name": "Larix laricina", "description": "High-detail eastern larch - open airy crown of rosette needle tufts strung along drooping-low ascending-high branches, straight slender bole, reddish scaly bark, small upright rosy cones. Summer green only. The stylized tamarack remains the tamarack species.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tamarind", "common_name": "Tamarind", "scientific_name": "Tamarindus indica", "description": "A long-lived tropical tree with feathery pinnate leaves and pod-like fruit containing tangy pulp used in cooking.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Tropical Africa (widely naturalized in South Asia)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tamarisk", "common_name": "Tamarisk", "scientific_name": "Tamarix sp.", "description": "A slender-branched shrub or small tree with scale-like leaves and plumes of tiny pink or white flowers, often invasive along waterways.", "family": "Tamaricaceae", "native_range": "Eurasia and Africa", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "tea-plant", "common_name": "Tea plant", "scientific_name": "Camellia sinensis", "description": "An evergreen shrub with glossy serrated leaves cultivated for harvesting young leaves to make tea, and grown commercially in Turkey's Black Sea coast including Samsun's humid climate.", "family": "Theaceae", "native_range": "East and South Asia (China, Indochina, Assam region)", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "teak", "common_name": "Teak", "scientific_name": "Tectona grandis", "description": "A large deciduous tropical hardwood tree prized for its durable, weather-resistant timber.", "family": "Lamiaceae", "native_range": "South and Southeast Asia (India, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "terminalia", "common_name": "Terminalia", "scientific_name": "Terminalia", "description": "A genus of tropical trees and shrubs, many valued for timber, fruit, or ornamental shade.", "family": "Combretaceae", "native_range": "Tropical and subtropical regions worldwide", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "termite-mound-fig", "common_name": "Termite Mound Fig", "scientific_name": "Ficus sur", "description": "Ficus sur, the broom cluster fig or Cape fig - the big fig of the miombo termite mound. A non-strangling, fast-growing, mostly evergreen tree, 12-20 m open-grown (to 25 m in forest), that stands out of the surrounding Brachystegia woodland because the raised, drained, nutrient-rich mound lets it grow larger and greener than anything around it.\n\nHABIT: one massive trunk, often buttressed at the base with radiating woody flanges, sometimes two or three trunks from the mound; a broad, dense, spreading crown wider than tall (roughly 1.3x), heavy low limbs sweeping out nearly horizontal, the crown a billowing dome of large leaves with the mound visible beneath.\n\nBARK: pale - almost white to pale grey, faintly green-tinged on young wood, darkening and roughening with age; smooth-ish, not deeply furrowed; the trunk and big limbs are the palest part of the tree.\n\nLEAVES: large (up to 22 x 13 cm), ovate to elliptic, dull mid-green above and paler below, three veins from the base, a shallowly toothed margin; dense enough that the crown reads as a solid green mass.\n\nFIGS (the signature): 3-4 cm, pear-shaped to round, green ripening to reddish-yellow with pale cream spots, borne in dense clusters on leafless drooping cluster-branches that hang off the trunk and the main limbs, sometimes at the base of the trunk - a mature tree carries visible bunches of figs on bare wood below the foliage.\n\nSTAGES: young 6 m, a single clean pale trunk with a rounded head and no figs; mature 16 m, buttressed trunk, spreading dome, fig clusters on the trunk and limbs. 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Pads deep glossy green above, with the rim curling very slightly upward. 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Same plants and same 0.55 m height as wildflower, authored at rung 3 the way grass-tuft-scan is to grass-tuft. 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