Seed Fracture

Hair of grass, hair of leaves, roots or branches one perceives.

The Embers have a very simple rhyme to mark a seed fracture - a condition that describes the damage to a foliad child during the seed growth part of their life. While not fatal, the condition will affect the child for the rest of their life, marking the damage permanently upon their form.
Children unfurled with a Seed Fracture can live a mostly healthy life, though they must take care to not overly damage themselves lest they enhance the chance of the condition enhancing the manifestation within them. This has lead for a long period of time for Foliads with the condition to be risk adverse and town bound, though with the recent ramping up of medical research it is only a matter of time that the mechanics behind the condition will be explored.

Causes

For some fractures this is direct damage, a bruise, knock or cut during the growing stage, and the child overcorrects the damage, the plant aspects of the seed taking over the healing. For others it is a genetic disease that causes the seed to grow wrong, prioritising plant over person.
Either way, the gem of this condition is that the biology of the child seeks to produce more and more aspects that could be chlorophyll than keratin.

Symptoms

Starting with the simplest detail: those with seed fracture in any source tend to havd leaves grow where hair would grow. Not to be confused with the elbow and calf growths of the Bidee substrate, the fracture growths mimic the leaf structure of the plants they grew up close to. Reports have come in that desert children with seed fracture have been seen with the sparse desert grasses.
Next comes the brittling: anyone with the condition who has serious physical injury in later childhood or adulthood has a chance of skin scabbing over in bark or bones mending as living wood. It is rare for mends like this to continue further, but there is a chance they may continue to grow into the foliad and cause further damage.
The most extreme of the seed fractures cause the foliad not to germinate at all, instead growing into a full tree of the type that surround the foliad's planting soil. While still a tree, magic has discovered the foliad sentience and DNA within.

Cultural Reception

Given the almost 1 in 100 chance of some sort of Seed fracture within Foliad demographics, many foliad know someone with a seed fracture. While many of the younger generation tend to see fractured peers as weird, most adults know of the complications of the condition, to the point that Embers and Tutors will ensure that their charges behave and are careful around the affected child/adult.