{ "species": [ { "slug": "acacia", "common_name": "Acacia", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 syntax-checked; not yet test-rendered", "family": "savanna", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "alder", "common_name": "Alder", "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). Species registered; not yet built.", "family": "waterside broadleaf (Mire)", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "algarrobo", "common_name": "Algarrobo", "scientific_name": "Prosopis alba", "description": "The shade tree of the Salta washes: a short massive gnarled trunk forking low into a wide umbrella crown of fine bipinnate foliage, wider than it is tall, often leaning with age toward water. 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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": [], "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": "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": "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": "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": "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. Default grow is LADEN (full berries); harvest states picked/regrowing ride the asset_condition axis via the berry vertex key (docs/berry-harvest-states.md).", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "boreal and temperate North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "berry-bush-leafy", "common_name": "Berry Bush (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Amelanchier alnifolia", "description": "Rung-2 tier of berry-bush: leaf-card foliage over the same multi-stem lobe silhouette, with the berries kept as SOLID keyed geometry so the picked/regrowing harvest conditions still work (the berry key cannot live inside an atlas).", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "boreal and temperate North America", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "bigleaf-maple", "common_name": "Bigleaf Maple", "scientific_name": "Acer macrophyllum", "description": "A large deciduous tree with an open, spreading crown and the largest leaves of any maple, often reaching over a foot across.", "family": "Sapindaceae", "native_range": "Western North America, from British Columbia to California", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "birch", "common_name": "Birch", "scientific_name": "Betula", "description": "Deciduous tree with distinctive white-and-black bark, common across temperate and boreal forests.", "family": "broadleaf", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "alpine", "label": "Alpine", "suitability": 1 } ], "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-leafy", "common_name": "Birch (leafy)", "scientific_name": "Betula", "description": "Leaf-card variant of the procedural birch - 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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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-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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": [], "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": [], "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-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": "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": "fern-leafy", "common_name": "Fern (frond-card)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Frond-card fern - pinnate leaflet atlas on an arching rosette of single cards, ~20 tris. Upscaled ladder partner of the Meshy fern.", "family": "understory", "native_range": null, "form": "fern", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fern-scan", "common_name": "Fern (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Fidelity rung 3 fern: an arching rachis carrying real pinnae.", "family": "Polypodiopsida", "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": 0.8 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fireweed", "common_name": "Fireweed", "scientific_name": "Chamerion angustifolium", "description": "A single-species tall pioneer perennial of burned and cleared ground, bearing a long erect SPIKE of magenta-pink four-petalled flowers that open from the bottom upward, so one stem carries open flowers below, buds above, and slender seed pods below those, on an unbranched stem with narrow willow-like leaves. ONE species only, never a mixed clump. About 1.4 m tall and deliberately taller than the meadow around it. A SPIKE silhouette, the vertical stroke that gives a flower patch structure.", "family": "Onagraceae", "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "fly-agaric", "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. 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": "rock", "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": [ { "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": "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": "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": "erratic", "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": "salix-sepulcralis-chrysocoma", "common_name": "Golden Weeping Willow", "scientific_name": "Salix \u00d7 sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma'", "description": "A graceful deciduous tree with long, pendulous golden-yellow branches that sweep toward the ground and slender bright green leaves.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Cultivated hybrid of European and Chinese willow parentage", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "grass-tuft", "common_name": "Grass Tuft", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Crossed cutout-card meadow grass clump for the near field - HD/Ultra tiers instance it inside the first LOD ring; procedural tufts carry the distance.", "family": "understory", "native_range": null, "form": "graminoid", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "mediterranean", "label": "Mediterranean", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "grass-tuft-scan", "common_name": "Grass Tuft (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Fidelity rung 3 grass: real 3D blades that arc, taper and fold along the midline.", "family": "Poaceae", "native_range": null, "form": "graminoid", "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": 0.5 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "gravel-patch", "common_name": "Gravel Patch", "scientific_name": null, "description": "A dense tile of angular frost-shattered and crushed rock chips, mixed lithology, packed with almost no gaps. 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": "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": "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": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "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": "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. 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": "honey-locust-leafy", "common_name": "Honey Locust (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Gleditsia triacanthos", "description": "Leaf-card honey locust with the same thorny vase skeleton and pods as honey-locust, but feathery alpha-card compound leaves for fidelity rung 2.", "family": null, "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": "honey-locust-scan", "common_name": "Honey Locust (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": "Gleditsia triacanthos", "description": "Scan-grade honey locust with modeled compound leaflets at close LOD, plus the same thorny vase skeleton and pods as honey-locust. Lower authored LODs use cheaper foliage for distance.", "family": null, "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": "hoodoo", "common_name": "Hoodoo Spire", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Banded erosion spire of a Bryce-style canyon. Claron limestone: fine horizontal beds, vertical rain fluting, a hard capstone over a pinched neck. First textured stone asset. PHYTO_VARIETY selects form: 0 spire, 1 fused cluster, 2 wall fin, 3 eroded stump.", "family": "prop", "native_range": null, "form": "unknown", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "hydrangea", "common_name": "Hydrangea", "scientific_name": "Hydrangea macrophylla", "description": "A woody, multi-stemmed shrub bearing large rounded clusters of pink, blue, or white flowers.", "family": "Hydrangeaceae", "native_range": "Japan and eastern Asia", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "ipe-amarelo", "common_name": "Ipe amarelo", "scientific_name": "Handroanthus albus", "description": "Brazil national tree and the postcard silhouette of the cerrado. Vase-shaped open branching from a short bole, the limbs rising and spreading outward rather than arching over; the crown is light and airy with plenty of sky through it. PHYTO_VARIETY 1 is the bloom cultivar: the same frame with the leaves gone and every branch tip carrying dense chrome-yellow trumpet flowers, so the whole tree reads as one colour against a green background.", "family": "cerrado / atlantic forest", "native_range": "Cerrado and Atlantic forest, Brazil", "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": "ipe-roxo", "common_name": "Ipe roxo", "scientific_name": "Handroanthus impetiginosus", "description": "The magenta sibling of ipe-amarelo: identical vase-shaped open branching and light airy crown, slightly smaller and denser in the twig. Its whole reason for existing separately is the bloom - PHYTO_VARIETY 1 drops the leaves and carries deep magenta-pink trumpet flowers to every branch tip. The two ipes are meant to be planted in the same stand so a cerrado has two colours in it and not one.", "family": "cerrado / atlantic forest", "native_range": "Cerrado and Atlantic forest, Brazil", "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": 5 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 14 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "ironwood", "common_name": "Ironwood", "scientific_name": "Olneya tesota", "description": "A slow-growing desert tree with dense, extremely hard wood, gray-green pinnate leaves, and clusters of pale purple pea-like flowers.", "family": "Fabaceae", "native_range": "Sonoran Desert of southwestern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "italian-cypress", "common_name": "Italian Cypress", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 syntax-checked; not yet test-rendered", "family": "mediterranean", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "jackpine", "common_name": "Jack Pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus banksiana", "description": "Hardy boreal conifer, twisted trunk, sparse irregular crown.", "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": "jackpine-leafy", "common_name": "Jack Pine (needle-card)", "scientific_name": "Pinus banksiana", "description": "High-detail jack pine - crooked kinked trunk, long bare bole, open upswept crown with needle tufts at branch ends and serotinous cones. The stylized solid-tuft jackpine remains the 'jackpine' species.", "family": "conifer", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "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": "jackpine-scan", "common_name": "Jack Pine (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": "Pinus banksiana", "description": "Scan-grade jack pine with modeled paired needle shoots, crooked kinked trunk, long bare bole, open upswept crown, and serotinous cones. Same plant as jackpine, authored at fidelity rung 3.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "jarilla", "common_name": "Jarilla", "scientific_name": "Larrea divaricata", "description": "The Monte desert creosote bush: an open vase of many thin whippy stems radiating from a tight woody base, carrying a sparse scatter of tiny resinous leaves that read as a bright-green haze rather than a solid canopy. Lower stems are bare and woody. Most of the mid-ground in every Salta flat.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "shrub", "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": "jarilla-leafy", "common_name": "Jarilla (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Larrea divaricata", "description": "Rung-2 tier of jarilla: the same open vase of whippy stems, with the resinous leaflet haze authored as sparse alpha-cutout sprig cards instead of paired blade triangles.", "family": null, "native_range": "Monte desert, northwest Argentina", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "joshua-tree", "common_name": "Joshua Tree", "scientific_name": "Yucca brevifolia", "description": "A tall, branching desert yucca with a rough shaggy trunk topped by clusters of stiff, spiky, sword-shaped leaves.", "family": "Asparagaceae", "native_range": "southwestern United States, especially the Mojave Desert", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "juniper", "common_name": "Juniper", "scientific_name": "Juniperus communis", "description": "An evergreen coniferous shrub or small tree with needle-like or scale-like foliage bearing fleshy blue berry-like cones.", "family": "Cupressaceae", "native_range": "Widespread across the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "delphinium", "common_name": "Larkspur", "scientific_name": "Delphinium elatum", "description": "An erect perennial herb bearing tall spikes of spurred, showy blue to purple flowers above deeply lobed leaves.", "family": "Ranunculaceae", "native_range": "Europe and northern Asia", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "liana", "common_name": "Liana", "scientific_name": "Various genera (woody vine growth form)", "description": "A long-stemmed, woody vine that roots in the ground and climbs high into the forest canopy using trees for support.", "family": "Various", "native_range": "Tropical rainforests worldwide", "form": "vine", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "lodgepole-pine", "common_name": "Lodgepole Pine", "scientific_name": "Pinus contorta", "description": "Tall straight northern pine. Draft; no assets yet.", "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": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "london-plane", "common_name": "London Plane", "scientific_name": "Platanus \u00d7 hispanica", "description": "A large, fast-growing hybrid tree with mottled flaking bark and broad maple-like leaves, widely planted as an urban street tree.", "family": "Platanaceae", "native_range": "Cultivated origin (Europe, hybrid of American and Oriental plane)", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "mangrove-leafy", "common_name": "Mangrove", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for moon-lantern-tree)", "family": "tropical shore", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "mangrove", "common_name": "Mangrove", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for moon-lantern-tree)", "family": "tropical shore", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "maple", "common_name": "Maple", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 runs; close to reference - QA the crown density", "family": "temperate hardwood (photo-anchored)", "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "sapling", "label": "Sapling" }, { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "maple-leafy", "common_name": "Maple (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Acer saccharum", "description": "Rung 2 of grow_maple.py: straight bole into a tall rounded crown, with a leaf-card canopy of five-lobed palmate blades over baked ridged hardwood bark. Vocabi P2 - one more broadleaf silhouette so the eastern broadleaf country is not oak-or-birch everywhere. The stylized solid maple remains the maple species.", "family": "Sapindaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "buttercup", "common_name": "Meadow buttercup", "scientific_name": "Ranunculus acris", "description": "A single-species damp-meadow perennial bearing small cupped flowers of five glossy, almost lacquered, deep butter-yellow petals on fine wiry branching stems above deeply cut palmate leaves. 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. A DISC silhouette.", "family": "Ranunculaceae", "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "monkey-tail-cactus", "common_name": "Monkey Tail Cactus", "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus colademononis", "description": "A trailing epiphytic cactus with long, pendulous stems densely covered in soft white hairs resembling a monkey's tail, bearing bright red tubular flowers.", "family": "Cactaceae", "native_range": "Bolivia", "form": "succulent", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "moon-lantern-tree", "common_name": "Moon Lantern Tree", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree - slender curved trunk, small twilight-blue canopy, oversized softly-glowing pale-gold lantern fruit hanging like paper lanterns. 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", "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": "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": "unknown", "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": "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": [], "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": [], "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. The stylized solid oak remains the oak species.", "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": "ocotillo", "common_name": "Ocotillo", "scientific_name": "Fouquieria splendens", "description": "A desert shrub of many tall, whip-like spiny canes that leaf out after rain and bear scarlet tubular flowers at their tips.", "family": "Fouquieriaceae", "native_range": "Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "olive", "common_name": "Olive", "scientific_name": "Olea europaea", "description": "A long-lived evergreen tree with a gnarled trunk, silvery-green lance-shaped leaves, and small oil-rich drupes ripening from green to black.", "family": "Oleaceae", "native_range": "Mediterranean Basin and Western Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [], "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": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 syntax-checked; not yet test-rendered", "family": "tropical coast", "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": "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": "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": "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", "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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-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", "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "serviceberry", "common_name": "Serviceberry", "scientific_name": "Amelanchier canadensis", "description": "A multi-stemmed woody shrub or small tree bearing clusters of white spring flowers followed by edible purple pome fruits and vivid fall foliage.", "family": "Rosaceae", "native_range": "Eastern North America", "form": "shrub", "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "toadstool-tree", "common_name": "Toadstool Tree", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree \u2014 oversized mushroom-cap canopy on a short gnarled trunk. 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Species registered.", "family": "waterside broadleaf (Mire)", "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": "weeping-willow-leafy", "common_name": "Weeping Willow (leaf-card)", "scientific_name": "Salix babylonica", "description": "Rung 2 of grow_weeping-willow.py: short trunk, broad dome, strands falling to the ground - and the reason it needed rung 2, since the rung-1 withes read as wire. Leaf-card strands of narrow lanceolate blades give the curtain its mass. Vocabi P1 for the jungle-falls river course now that the falls river actually flows. 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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": "white-pine", "common_name": "White Pine", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Draft grower \u2014 planned - brief only (flywheel draft for moon-lantern-tree)", "family": "eastern boreal (Ontario icon)", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" }, { "code": "old", "label": "Old" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "spruce-scan", "common_name": "White Spruce (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": "Picea glauca", "description": "Fidelity rung 3 of white spruce: true needle geometry, needles radiating around real shoots.", "family": "Pinaceae", "native_range": null, "form": "conifer", "is_tree": true, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 2 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 2 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "young", "label": "Young" }, { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "young", "target_height_m": 3 }, { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": 15 } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "water-lily", "common_name": "White Water Lily", "scientific_name": "Nymphaea alba", "description": "The hero of a still lake surface: a loose raft of five to nine round floating PADS, each about 25 cm across, with the characteristic single V-shaped notch cut from the edge to the centre, lying FLAT and touching in places, plus one or two open white flowers with many pointed petals and a yellow centre standing about 15 cm above the pads. IMPORTANT: this asset carries NO STEM GEOMETRY AT ALL. Its base plane IS the water surface, so the whole 0.3 m of registered height is pads-and-flower ABOVE that plane and nothing hangs below it. Pads deep glossy green above, with the rim curling very slightly upward. Build it as a scattered raft, not a tidy rosette.", "family": "Nymphaeaceae", "native_range": "Northern-hemisphere still fresh water", "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "wildflower-scan", "common_name": "Wildflower (scan-grade)", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Fidelity rung 3 of the meadow wildflower mix (daisies, fireweed, buttercups): real modelled petals, each a shaped blade with a curl and a slight cup, on a true stem with basal leaves, so the silhouette is mesh rather than an alpha cutout. Same plants and same 0.55 m height as wildflower, authored at rung 3 the way grass-tuft-scan is to grass-tuft. Reads correct from directly above, which is the case the crossed cards fail: this is the densest-planted flower in the near field and the player stands over it.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "wildflower", "common_name": "Wildflower Cluster", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Crossed cutout-card meadow flowers (daisies, fireweed, buttercups) for the near field at HD/Ultra; flat quads carry the distance.", "family": "understory", "native_range": null, "form": "forb", "is_tree": false, "climates": [ { "code": "temperate", "label": "Temperate", "suitability": 3 }, { "code": "boreal", "label": "Boreal / Cold", "suitability": 3 } ], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "target_height_m": null } ], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "willow-tree", "common_name": "Willow", "scientific_name": "Salix alba", "description": "A fast-growing deciduous tree with slender, drooping branches and narrow lance-shaped leaves, often found near water.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Europe, western and central Asia", "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "willow-of-whispers", "common_name": "Willow of Whispers", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Storybook fairytale tree \u2014 drooping cascading branches, mysterious-grove silhouette. 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": "willow-shrub", "common_name": "Willow shrub", "scientific_name": "Salix", "description": "A multi-stemmed woody willow with slender flexible branches and narrow lance-shaped leaves, often found in wet or riparian habitats.", "family": "Salicaceae", "native_range": "Temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere", "form": "shrub", "is_tree": false, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] }, { "slug": "yellow-birch", "common_name": "Yellow Birch", "scientific_name": null, "description": "Betula alleghaniensis. A medium birch with shimmering amber-bronze bark peeling in fine papery curls, a rounded irregular crown, and ovate finely-toothed leaves that turn clear luminous gold in autumn.", "family": null, "native_range": null, "form": "broadleaf", "is_tree": true, "climates": [], "growth_stages": [ { "code": "mature", "label": "Mature" } ], "planned_stages": [], "biomes": [] } ] }