Sanguivorous grass
Sanguivorous grass (Tenues ferrum) is a species of grass native to the Fil Humide Bog in Frésir, Wosteaque. The grass is known for it's razor thin trichomes, that can cut animals which bleed around the plant. The plant this uses the nutrients from the blood to grow, specifically nitrogen which helps the plant to grow in non-fertile soil. There have been no known human deaths to the grass as the grass can't pierce even simple foot wear. Hoofed animals are also usually safe from the grass, although hoofed species are quite rare around the range of the grass.
| Sanguivorous grass | |
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Least Concern
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae
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| Order: | Poales
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| Family: | Poaceae
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| Genus: | Tenues
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| Species: | T. Ferrum
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Description[edit | edit source]
Sanguivorous grass is normally 2 cm tall, but can grow up to 8 cm. The grass is a translucent green color with multiple trichomes on each blade of grass. The size of the grass patches range from a few feet to about two hundred feet.
Discovery[edit | edit source]
The grass was discovered in 1789 by villagers of the town of Notodsla when hunters notices that their hunting dogs either came back with multiple micro cuts or never came back at all. The town sent riders to Hammerverg to recruit the help of local National Biology Institute of Wosteaque chapter. The biologist soon found patches of dead and rotten animal remains around the grass patches, and after experimentation it was found to have "Sanguivorous properties" as biologist Christianne Lara put in the specimen note sent to the main chapter of the National Biology Institute of Wosteaque in Zlento.
Dormancy[edit | edit source]
During the winter season the grass goes into a dormant stage which helps it live in the snow that is common in the bog. The snow helps it to hide as the snow covers the grass making it hard to detect even to humans. When an animal falls victim to the grass during it's dormant phase, it goes into a hybrid stage in which slowly it absorbs the nutrients from the blood.
Sanguivorous properties[edit | edit source]
The grass can grow without blood in normal soil, but it is in non-fertile soil, where most other grasses cannot grow, that it makes use of its sanguivorous properties. The grass uses it's razor thin trichomes, which have small bulbs filled with eugenol, a natural anesthetic, to "hide" the cuts from the inflicted animal. The animal usually does not feel anything, and depending on it's size, either wonders out of the grass or dies of blood loss.