Cabbage Shootroot

+![Cabbage Shootroot](wiki-images/bb/bbad1e2dfd11caf69e16605a16052f68.png)+ +| Property | Details |+| :--- | :--- |+| **Species** | Shootroot cabbage |+| **Type** | Sessile |+| **Category** | Starfish |+| **Attitude** | Passive |+| **Biome** | Plateaus, Shallows |+ +The **Cabbage Shootroot** is a sessile lifeform that lives in a symbiotic relationship with the [Aeroshell Sponge](Aeroshell_Sponge).+ +## Appearance+ +The Cabbage Shootroot appears purple and has a similar form to a mushroom. On top of the arms is the pink dotted center which holds the mouth.+ +## Databank Entry+ +> **Source:** Scan a Cabbage Shootroot+ +**Shootroot cabbage**. A robust bottom-dwelling organism anatomically similar to a plastic starfish, or to an opened variety of Earth's extinct blastoids.+ +### 1. Animal anatomy+ +The cabbage shootroot's upward-facing mouth is surrounded by outstretched arms. These arms are hard, tightly grouped, partly calcified, and covered in a tough biopolymer characteristic of other shootroots (tentative name: polyproteovinyl). These arms produce the cabbage-leaf texture that gives the shootroot its name.+ +### 2. Seabed burrowing+ +A second set of arms uses ribbons of the same tough biopolymer to dig into the seabed, stirring up sediment and expanding cracks in rock. This is a difficult and metabolically expensive process, but it is a niche with little competition.+ +### 3. Symbiote kiss+ +The cabbage shootroot does not use its mouth to eat, or its hard leaflike arms to feed. These surfaces seem to be reserved for a symbiotic partner. The cabbage shootroot uses its mouth to transfer nutrients gathered by its roots to the symbiote, and to receive a trickle of food or chemistry in exchange.+ +### 4. Circular nerve cord+ +Like all shootroots, the cabbage shootroot is notable for its expression of a circular nerve cord.+ +**Assessment:** do not sit. You may receive nutrients.