Ultraplortatus stellafrons

Ultraplortatus stellafrons
Creator	D̜͙̟͉ìn̨̹o̬̗C̼̮̣͡óaͅt͜
Information
Status	Extant
Zones	A, B, Q
Roles	Producer
Classification
Genus	Ultraplortatus
Species	Ultraplortatus stellafrons
Evolution
Date	February 21st, 2019
Ancestor	Ultraplortatus sustensa
Descendants	Pine Plort

The Megaplortatus sustensa of Zone B have been gradually spreading further northward, but there is one factor that has been holding them back. The frigid temperatures of the winter season seem to become more and more hostile the higher the latitudes are.

After thousands of years of natural selection and acquired adaptations, a new species known as Megaplortatus stellafrons has been created.

This 130-foot tall tree has darkened the color of its trunk in order to absorb more heat from the sunlight in its Canada-like climate, and the shape of the leaves has changed drastically. Megaplortatus stellafrons leaves are narrower for requiring lower amounts of water to maintain, and are slightly firmer for protection from the colder temperatures.

While some leaves curve downwards, other leaves curve upwards, allowing more room for leaf growth to collect sunlight. These leaves, however, are only temporary and only grow in the spring and summer. This is because they take additional nutrients to support, and would accumulate snow if they remained. Therefore, Megaplortatus stellafrons cuts off circulations to those leaves in autumn, which fall to the ground and fertilize the soil, and grows them back the following spring.

Megaplortatus stellafrons release their seeds, in a semi-hard coating, periodically during the spring and summer after approximately 5-7 years of growth, growing 6-8 feet per year depending on available resources, but their seeds require a freezing period to trigger growth afterwards. This is so that they will germinate in the spring, when conditions are most favorable for the saplings.