Cabbage Shootroot

-![Cabbage Shootroot](wiki-images/bb/bbad1e2dfd11caf69e16605a16052f68.png)- -| Property | Details |+| Feature | Details | | :--- | :--- | | **Species** | Shootroot cabbage |+| **Attitude** | Passive | | **Type** | Sessile | | **Category** | Starfish |-| **Attitude** | Passive | | **Biome** | Plateaus, Shallows |  +![Cabbage Shootroot](Cabbage Shootroot.png)+  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.  -**Shootroot cabbage**. A robust bottom-dwelling organism anatomically similar to a plastic starfish, or to an opened variety of Earth's extinct blastoids.+*Source: Scan a Cabbage Shootroot*  -### 1. Animal anatomy+## Gallery  -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.+![Cabbage Shootroot with its symbiote in daylight hours](Cabbage Shootroot day.png)+*Cabbage Shootroot with its symbiote in daylight hours*  -### 2. Seabed burrowing+![The Aeroshell Sponge symbiote provides ample light at night](Cabbage Shootroot Night.png)+*The Aeroshell Sponge symbiote provides ample light at night*  -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.+![This specimin does not have a symbiote and is perhaps a juvenile](Cabage Shootroot Immature .png)+*This specimen does not have a symbiote and is perhaps a juvenile*