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Species: Carnegiea gigantea
Habitat: the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and the state of Sonora in Mexico
Fun stat: an exceptional one grew to 78 feet before being toppled by a wind storm in 1986
Points: 52, Votes: 3, Highest: Johnny Unusual
Species: Ambuloradicis Pikminidae rubrus, auribus, caerula, yokozunum, venalbius, habisaxum, volarosa, habiglacius, supravelum
Habitat: Planet PNF-404 (likely post-apocalyptic Earth)
Fun fact: Pikmin are occasionally known to mimic songs they have heard
Points: 52, Votes: 2, Highest: Kirin
Species: Phaseolus vulgaris
Habitat: native to the Americas from Mexico to the Andes
AKA: Green Bean, Kidney Bean, Red Bean, Pinto Bean, White Bean, Navy Bean, String Bean, Snap Bean, Ayacotl, Búul, Purutu, Frijol
Fun fact: Fortune-telling using beans is called favomancy.
Points: 53, Votes: 2, Highest: Mogri
Patrick said:The Avern is a fictional plant from Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer. Like many other animals and plants in the series, it is "not from Urth." They are several feet tall and covered in sharp, very poisonous leaves, and they are used in duels. A duelist holds the plant by the base in one hand, and then uses their other hand to carefully pluck off leaves and throw them at their opponent like knives. The leaves are described as sometimes colliding against each other in midair and then slashing and striking at each other. When the leaves find their target, they always kill.
The search for this plant makes up a pretty big part of the book, and the duel itself is very memorable. It's this alien thing that's used in such a surprising way. A+ plant, but please keep it away from me.
I intentionally left them off my list because I figured they'd get so many votes, oops.I was pretty surprised at how little votes and discussion we got for Pikmin - such cute li'l roots! I guess the Pikmin players didn't overlap with the contest voting set very much.
Species: Helianthus annuus
Habitat: native to Western North America, growing in any fertile well-drained soil
Fun stat: the tallest one ever recorded grew to 30 feet
Points: 54, Votes: 2, Highest: ViolentVixen
Generally, each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals, where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are successive Fibonacci numbers. Typically, there are 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other; however, in a very large sunflower head there could be 89 in one direction and 144 in the other.[11][12][13] This pattern produces the most efficient packing of seeds mathematically possible within the flower head.[14][15][16]
A model for the pattern of florets in the head of a sunflower was proposed by H. Vogel in 1979.[17] This is expressed in polar coordinates
where θ is the angle, r is the radius or distance from the center, and n is the index number of the floret and c is a constant scaling factor. It is a form of Fermat's spiral. The angle 137.5° is related to the golden ratio (55/144 of a circular angle, where 55 and 144 are Fibonacci numbers) and gives a close packing of florets. This model has been used to produce computer generated representations of sunflowers.
No worries!Whoops, sorry Patrick, not sure how I got Mogri's name on my notes there, fixing momentarily.
Species: Bulbasaur
Habitat: native to the Kanto region, invasive everywhere else
AKA: Fushigidane, Bulbizarre, Bisasam,
Fun stat: National Pokedex #0001
Points: 55, Votes: 2, Highest: Mogri
YeesssssSunflowers are also full of math.
Sure, if you boost to +4 first...+4 252+ SpA Tera Grass Serperior Leaf Storm vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Bulbasaur: 231-272 (100 - 117.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
(Bulbasaur still deserves it, but I thought it would be funny to find a grass-type move that instakills Bulbasaur, who has a 4x resistance to grass)
Species: Aloe vera
Habitat: native to the Arabian Peninsula, now grows in semi-tropical and arid regions worldwide
Fun fact: the gel is useful but the leaf skin is toxic - do not eat
Points: 56, Votes: 2, Highest: Mogri