#flora colossi

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“High in the Sky”

( 5/10 Characters Drawn )

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Flora Colossi Headcanon 5/?: Flowers

Being sentient plants, Flora Colossi are capable of growing flowers. Unlike other plants though, not all of these flowers are for reproduction. In fact, a Flora Colossus individual will only grow the specific fertile flowers needed for reproduction a small handful of times across their long lifespan. Most of the non-reproductive flowers they grow are used in a variety of other purposes. For instance, communication and emotional expression.

Some flora colossus will grow flowers that signify friendship and platonic affection to others. Others will grow flowers with calming scents to comfort anxious or stressed friends and family. And in some cases flowers just sprout from certain individuals whenever they feel strong positive emotions like happiness.

There are also some flora colossus on Talunhia (Planet X) that were known to use specialised flowers as signs of aggression and threat displays to enemies. Though this isn’t as common as other more effective threat displays like growing thorns or sharper branches.

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How Groot got his speech back

The Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova confront Gardener the Elder of the Universe who is responsible for the Flora Colossi attack and Groot's shrunken state. Star-Lord throws Little Groot and Ant-Man as a tag team attack. Star-Lord, Gamora and Nova join in to attack the Gardener but the Elder shakes them off. When Gardener yells at them, he gets blasted by Rocket Raccoon. Little Groot jumps in and leaps atop of Gardener's chest when he’s down and speaks to him at length, finally transferring his own life energy into him to make him realize that Loki poisoned him. Now healed and back to normal, Gardener in turn revives Groot, making him full grown again and fully articulate. As the Guardians are impressed with this change, Groot turns to battle the other Flora Colossus.

Infinity Countdown #1, 2018

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Long story ahead....

The Gardener was approached by Loki to inquire him about the location of the Soul Stone. Even though the Gardener didn't know its location, Loki poisoned him and drove him mad, making him become paranoid for the desecration of his work by the hand of the advanced societies of the cosmos. Because of this, the Gardener attacked one of the last Flora colossi, the Guardian of the Galaxy Groot, and shattered him. He took all but one of the creature's splinters, and grew an army of violent and morbid Flora colossus. The Gardener first used his army to attack and overrun the planet Telferina. The army was intercepted by the Guardians of the Galaxy, among whom was Groot, who had managed to regrow his body from a splinter, but since his other remains had been grown into evil doppelgangers, he couldn't reach full size. When Groot managed to get close enough to the Gardener, he used his powers to cleanse his body of Loki's poison. With his sanity restored, the Gardener came to his senses, and his first action was to heal Groot's body, thus bringing him back to his original form in the process

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One of the best things Jonah Lobe added to Groot lore is the idea that, like trees on earth, Groot is a biome in of himself and his bark houses many other organisms including fungi and animals. Which is shown in Lobes book Marvel Anatomy with a squirrel chillin in Groot’s chest cavity.

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I feel like more people in the gotg fandom should know in the 2015 Groot comics, Groot is considered short by his species standards, as shown in this flashback in issue 6;

Everyone thinks Rocket and Groot were a small guy/tall guy duo, when this whole time, they were really short king solidarity…

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Does Groot breathe in oxygen and breathe out Carbon Dioxide or the other way around like plants do?

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The movie design for Groot is cute and all, but I love the 2008 versions of Groot/the flora colossi that look like big freaky Kaiju beasts.

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Flora Colossi Headcanon 3/?: Asexual Reproduction

There are two main ways flora colossus can make more of themselves: splinters or seeds

Splinters are what they sound like: cuttings of a flora colossus that they break off and grow into new individuals when planted in dirt. These saplings are basically near identical clones of their progenitor. Though some saplings are known to develop their own personality overtime.

The splinter sapling also tends to inherit its progenitors name and speaks with it. I.e. if a splinter sapling’s progenitor’s name is Groot and they use that name when speaking Taluhnisan (I am Groot), the sapling will also have/speak with that name.

The other way is through a flora colossus individual growing flowers that then get pollinated, produce fruit with a seed which is then planted.

These seedlings, as they’re made using the pollen of two or more flora colossus individuals, are more genetically distinct compared to splinter-grown individuals.

They’re also usually born with a different, unique name to their progenitors.