Competition: Arconae Primus Flora

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Arconae Primus Flora

Our team of biologists need help documenting the flora they are researching on Arconae Primus.

Draw a plant diagram and label it on how it might interact with its environment. Is it a series of interconnected roots that's just one mega-lifeform? Does it consume wildlife of varying sizes and converts it into a gel with medicinal properties? The possibilities are endless.

Rules:

This competition is a graphics competition utilizing either hand-based or computer-based painting or drawing. This is required to be represented by labeled flora (plants), such as one you would find in a biology textbook.

AI submissions will result in disqualification.

Submissions can be in the format of .jpg or png.

Submissions will be graded based on the 2.0 Graphic Rubric

Competition Information

Parent Competition: Adventures on Arconae Primus
Organized by: Quaestor Koda Kendis
Running time: 2025-08-12 until 2025-08-26 (15 days)
Target Unit: House Galeres
Competition Type: Graphics/Multimedia
Difficulty Class: Regular
Awards: Fourth Level Crescents and 6 Clusters of Graphite as per Herald guidelines
Participants: 3 subscribers, of which 1 has participated.

Results

Golden Envoy Abbey Atty Attiter Ann

Member

Golden Envoy Abbey Atty Attiter Ann

File submission

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Textual submission

A depiction from the journal of one Rue Kendis.
The script is a personal short form for field notation of Kendis, R. When translated, he reports that:

> The species is a flowering subshrub with erect stems with almost oppositely arranged leaves. Flowers appear typically solitary in the leaf axilis, each possessing a calyx with five lobes and fruits in divergent follicles containing many seeds. Appears to form clonal colonies along their rooting stems, but only appears alongside this second species' exposed root structure. Parasitic or symbiotic relationship?

> Leaves are flat, round, and waxy, a deep blue-green. Flowers are typically a blue-violet upon opening in the morning hours and proceed to change to a low pink by nightfall, emitting a fruity aroma. Defense mechanism? Pollinator attraction? Testing required, but suspect high content of alkaloids?

> These lovely ones seem quiet hardy, extending to what this one suspects is an elevation of 1000 m, primarily in gaps between rocks where host? species breaks through the soil. I was not allowed to do the climbing of the rock face in order to investigate further.

Placement

Participation only