| Nursery vase Temporal range: 100 million AD 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Unranked: | Angiosperms |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Bromeliaceae |
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| “ | This nursery plant produces a flush of large, vase-shaped leaves close to the ground. Rainwater partially fills newly unfurled leaves, creating freshwater pools. The leafy pools act as protective cradles for the eggs and young of the swampus.
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The nursery vase or nursery plant is a species of large bromeliad native to the Bengal Swamp of 100 million AD. When it fills with rainwater, it is used by swampus octopuses as a nursery for their young, and will be protected by the swampus family until their young are old enough to leave the plant. A swampus family will return to the same nursery plant year after year.
The nursery vase has evolved to flower during the swampus' breeding season, as the presence of the swampuses dissuades herbivores such as young toratons from eating the plant and preventing its pollination.
The water of the nursery vase also contains a toxin-producing bacterium which the baby swampuses ingest. This toxin is what gives the swampus its venomous bite.
List of appearances[]
- The Future Is Wild
- 1x01. Welcome to the Future
- 1x06. Waterland
- The Future is Wild: A Natural History of the Future
- The Future Is Wild manga
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Translation |
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| German | Kindergartenpflanze | "Kindergarten plant" |
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