Mimillias are flowers that bloom profusely once a year, filling Wing Alayna end to end with wonderful blossoms that vary in shade according to biome. Blue for bodies of water, green for forests, pink for plains, and orange for the highlands and mountains.
The day on which they bloom, Mimillia no Hi, is a national holiday, providing a necessary break for laborers of all kinds. As such, parties are often held on the day. Mimillias are often associated with romance, as the gatherings that take place on Mimillia no Hi often bring together those who might otherwise not meet.
Upon the Shadow Queen's head grow Kage no Hana, shadow flowers that produce seeds to be planted in the hearts of the beings of light to do her bidding. As any shadow plant is unstable in the light, planting them takes careful planning. First, she needed something to mask the presence of the seeds from the careful eye of the ruler of the light realm. Then she could begin turning the hearts of the guardians of light cold...
A flower native to the Koraln Sing water desert. It was later introduced to Wing Alayna to help with land drainage towards the end of the rainy season, but the flowers much preferred to stay by permanent bodies of water rather than help out with temporary ones.
Being a resident of Koraln Sing, where sea and land are nearly one, Hydranias have a high tolerance for salinity. The water that gathers in their blossoms is usually salty, though with a clear taste. Ones that took up residence in Wing Alayna by the Great Buddy lake gather water in their blossoms that tastes near identical to the clearest water in the lake.
Due to the salinity in their environment, native Hydranias have a perpetual salty taste. However, it tastes a bit too bitter to be making food out of.
Hydranias around the Great Buddy Lake do not quite have this saltiness to them, although they can occasionally when sea water gets into the lake or if they are on the side nearest to the ocean. They do, however, retain their unpalatable bitterness.
Found on an island between Furheart Iiah and Fuline Ah. Sailors have been circulating tales of similar tubers since times past, but it is only recently that a scientific expedition traveled to the small island where they can be found to document and classify the new discovery.
Shimania Kokokabu taste a bit like a turnip or parsnip, with a slightly sweet flavor with a hint of pepperiness, especially in the tail end.
The leaves have a somewhat minty taste, a bit like carrot leaves. The flowers have a slightly sweet taste.
Once believed to be extinct, Mizuminas are fungi with an appearance similar to Aquabulla plants. They were often confused for plants due to the green coloration of their stalks and similarity to existing plants, and this confusion led to their classification as a plant in some early texts before proper research was conducted.
Their 'fruit' on top contains a type of jelly that gets more watery towards the center. The taste will be influenced somewhat by the body of water the fungi are found by, but for the most part taste like good water.
They have historically been known to grow near streams, rivers, lakes and estuaries, anywhere there is water that is calm with a fairly mild current, whether saltwater or freshwater. The first sighting of them in recent times, however, is by a stream offshoot from the Great Buddy River that runs north to south in west Wing Alayna.
Considered the queen of the Flyona family, the Skypetalia has the sweetest petals of any currently recognized member of its genus. They are so sweet, in fact, that they usually need to be diluted if consumed at all. Unlike most of its relatives, it sports translucent, fairy-like leaves throughout the stem rather than just at the top.
As is typical of Flyona family members, the stem has a distinct licorice taste.
Twina Celestia always grow in pairs, merging together during their growth to become one flower. The water it gathers in its blossom is said to have celestial properties, like liquid moonlight itself.
Since the discovery of the Blua Elektraika, an ambitious project was undertaken to create crossbreeds with it, first with the Razzisky Zazzleflower in order to help ground the unstable dimension it came from, which resulted in the successful creation of a new variety, the Razzisky Lita. The next ambitious project involved creating a crossbreed with a flower that was only rumored to exist, the Gumidro Sweetflower. The first step, of course, would be proving its existence. This year's bountiful expeditions returned one specimen of the previously fabled flower, and the first and largest hurdle to the project was complete. Then came the challenge of actually managing to create a new species. Blua Elektraikas, sometimes also simply called Bleukas, make their home in Stormana Zones, where lightning flashes are a near-constant. The undertaking would require the cooperation of someone capable of navigating this difficult cloudscape, and very often, these experts are as hyperactive as the lightning strikes themselves. But, our botanical researchers rose to the challenge, and managed to devise a way for these hyperactive lightning sprites to propagate the flower the team had only dreamed of until now.
Fragments from the specimen were sprinkled liberally over a Stormana Zone where the Bleukas grew, which in itself was an undertaking, as first a suitable Electric Buddy had to be both found and equipped with the duster. Between the wind and lashing rain in the zone, it was uncertain if any of the fragments would reach their destination. But, when the sun shone in the clouds, and our tour guide managed to figure out how to use the capture device we'd given him, a beautiful picture emerged...
Bleuka Gumidros are radiant with electric energy. Like their mother species, the Gumidro Sweetflower, they produce a sweet, gummy-like substance at the center of their flowers. The catch is that the pointed centerpiece acts as a lightning rod, and when it is struck, it turns to glass. However, this is known to slowly reverse over time, so perhaps if plucked and left somewhere safe from lighting, one may get to enjoy a sweet treat instead of a glass sculpture.
