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===Plant life=== | ===Plant life=== | ||
[[File:Jungle Island.jpg|thumb|The jungle.]] | [[File:Jungle Island.jpg|thumb|The jungle.]] | ||
Riven was | Riven's botanical potential was seen best on the aptly-named [[Jungle Island]]. While the coasts were dotted consistently with short, rounded palms, the island's interior consisted of a lush rainforest made up of ferns, huge [[Rivenese brown mushroom|mushroom]]s (some large and brown, and some [[Rivenese glowing mushroom|blue and phosphorescent]]), and both red- and white-barked trees. Several of these were fruit-bearing, as piles of fruit could be found in both the [[schoolroom]] and on Temple Island, and, while it was not easy to connect each fruit with its parent plant, it is known that the five-lobed star fruit was harvested from the jungle's mushrooms. | ||
Riven also hosted underwater vegetation such as colourful lichen, algae and seaweed, all of which seem to comfortably adapt to Riven's atypical water supply in both the lagoons and surrounding islands. | |||
The red- and white-barked trees were also odd in nature. They had large white-barked ridged "bases", similar to the trunks of many northern [[Earth]] tree species, that end abruptly at about a sixth of the way up. From there, these bases curve inward like the layers of the trunks of certain mushrooms, forming a sort of "lip". What appears to arise out of the bases is a smooth red/white trunk similar to that of a birch. These trunks end at roughly the same height, giving way to branches that extend horizontally which again, end at roughly the same height, capping the tree. When looking into Riven's jungle, one could literally see a "tree line" which separated the sky from the jungle. | |||
===Animal life=== | ===Animal life=== |