Flora:Blood Oak

--58.8.154.236 08:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)Doughpot

What Is a Blood Oak?
A blood oak is a flesh eating tree from The Edge Chronicles by Phillip Reave. It's lair is littered with bones from previous prey and its breath smells so horrible you just want to throw up. This tree is found in the grasslands of Gandavanij IV and its very easy to spot one. Just look for an earily creepy area and chances are there is either an adult or young living there. The young are not a menace and are easily dealt with by chopping off the stump and taking out all the roots to ensure a no-regrowth for the tree. The adults are the real threat and are harder to spot. They have a parasitic relation with the infamous Tarry Vine. The blood oak has serrated teeth and while feeding on the meat the Tarry Vine gets it share, soaking up the blood. Blood Oak timber is popular for use in constructing sky ship hulls.

The Tarry Vine
This vine serves as the blood oak's appendages and has a life of its own. Upon finding prey, it wraps around 'em and drags them back to the blood oak. Sometimes people get caught there and can chop the vine off with a well aimed swing from an axe. But, it doesn't end there. The vine is like the plant version of the hydra and three new vines come out. This is very dangerous and the best way is to run as fast as ye can or torch the chopped vine before it regrows!

Similar plants
There are similar flesh eatin' plants. I have listed four of them. Snapping Clamp, Venus Fly Trap (its real), Ol Horribley le Breath, Doughpot