Floating Derry

Floating derries are a species of magical lotus from Maloruno. They are most common in the Equator Range, where they rise up the air through the day and float down the mountainsides during evenings, settling in the lowlands at night.

These flowers contain higher levels of aeromagis which is what gives them ability to remain airborne constantly.

Uses

Floating Derry by Mochi

Floating derries have great historical and cultural significance with runos. Lowland runos have learnt how to biologically reprogramme the flowers, making them float up and down the villages rather than the mountains. These flowers are seen as a symbol of the journey of life; the floating down the mountains signifying the process of ageing, the floating upwards signifying death, and how the cycle restarts again, and again, and again, day after day.

Culinary

Petals

The petals of floating derries are blended and turned into spices, with a faint umami taste. The spices are used less for the actual flavour and more for the convenience of adding a spice easily made, offering some amount of flavour.

Seeds

Floating derry seeds are rich in biomagis, to aid them in growth. Lowland runos harvest the seeds of these flowers and grind the seeds into a liquid, using it to speed up the growth of crops.

Habitat

Floating derries are only found around the Equator Range, however their territory expands significantly further north and south. They prefer a cooler climate; anything below -10 degrees Celsius and the flowers struggle to move through the air, and anything warmer than twenty degrees Celsius and the petals swell, which prevents the flowers from becoming airborne.

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Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Nelumbonaceae

Geographic Distribution

• Equator Range
• Maloruno

Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Clade
Tracheophytes
Clade
Angiosperms
Order
Proteales
Family
Nelumbonaceae
Genus
Nelumbo
Species
Nelumbo floramagis

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