Scanderan blood tree

Scanderan blood tree
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Aboresaguinevore Scandera}
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Phylum:	Angiosperms
Class:	Eudicots
Family:	Aboresaguinevore
Genus:	Aboresaguinevore
Species:	A. Scandera

The Scanderan blood tree is one of the few predatory plants living on the Scanderan continent, the other twos being Predatory seaweed and blackmoss but the blood tree is the largest of the three and one that is the most distant from the other two. Some people have theorised that the three plants share a common ancestor ages ago but other suggest that the blood tree have a common ancestor with the blackmoss but that the seaweed is not related.

The blood tree is an almost grey three with large almost heart shaped leaves what however makes it stick out is the complex secondary vine like extensions that grows out of it's branches and hangs freely down to the ground. Further more is it also known because it commonly leaks a red almost blood like sap that pours down it's grey stem.

Hunting

Out of the three predatory plants so is however the blood three the most complex and have a rather evolved and effective means of hunting prey by luring it to the tree. It does this by constantly ejaculating large amounts of spores into the air that have a complex effect on animals infected. These animals are not only curiously drawn to the tree but they are drawn to it by the smell of the bloodlike sap it extrudes. Under the hallucinations so do the animals often try to approach the tree to get it's sap, predators and herbivores alike have been known to fall for this trick and even some sentient species have been known to be more vulnerable to this than others. However when a potential victim approaches the tree do one of the long vines lashes out, in a way similar to that of nettles but on a much larger and more complex scale and the victim is injected with a strong nerve poison that grows within the plant. The vine does then slowly enter the now dead body through one opening or another. Once inside so do the plant start to quickly grow new vines that extends into the dead animal and helps to break down the animal and to absorb it.

Spread

From time to time however so do the tree not devour the animal but instead so do it break off a sapling within the paralysed animal that approached the tree. This sapling will continue to grow within the animal giving it a more and more bloated and twisted appearance as the sapling within it becomes more and more visible. The animal does however migrate to a new spot where the new tree can grow where it just stops and the tree grows out of the animal and then take roots in it's new home. Most commonly so do the host of this tree die out of hunger or lack of water but they have been known to be ripped apart by the quickly growing sapling.

Mythology

Most mythology and stories around the blood trees make them out to be evil things, better destroyed at first opportunity, a view most Scanderans share which makes the tree a rare sight amongst the more inhabited Scanderan areas but it is still rather common amongst the wild. Generally is it seen as the home of demons and evil spirits. Weapons that were made from this wood is said to be cursed and would bring death down upon their owners quickly.