Gilded kelp
From Mizahar Lore
Overview
Gilded Kelp can be found only in Myri's Teeth, located in the Southern Suvan Sea. Gilded Kelp is a thick golden underwater plant that is grown in the fertile mud found on the sea floor of Myri's Teeth. It grows alone, not in a seaweed forest. The kelp starts off as a small bulb that has unattached itself from its former home and floats along the water until it rests and gets covered in mud on the floor. Slowly, a small stem breaks out of the buried bulb and pushes its way through the mud until it reaches the watery surface. This take about twenty days from initial landing. The next stage of its growth involves a slow reach of its stem to the surface of the water. When the golden stem is full grown it reaches about ten feet upwards. The stem is a hard golden stick that only slightly bends in the sway of the water. If forced to bend more the stem will break and releases a thick, white, sticky sap that flows down the stem into the mud. Stem growth take about forty days. Only when the stem if fully grown will the leaves begin to bud. The leaves are a thin, but meaty leaf that is slippery to the touch. the leafs are usually about five inches long and maybe thirty or so leafs will grow on the stem in the duration of the plants lifetime. One leaf takes about thirty days to grow. The plant itself, after it is fully grown, may live a total of two more years until it slowly sinks back down to the sea floor where it will become fertilizer for more plants. During it two years after it is fully grown the plant will begin to produce seeds. These little bulbs grow on the stem where the corner of a leaf and stem meet. Seeds take about ten days to grow fully. Only five or so seeds will be grown on the stem throughout its life and only one or two will break off and become another Gilded Kelp plant later on.