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| - Spec's floral life is largely the same as that of Home Earth, although the discerning eye can spot the differences. Many archaic plant taxa that, in RL, are extinct or restricted in range may, in Spec, be found in relative abundance. A few plant groups extinct in RL, such as the cycad-like cycadeoidophytes (or bennettitaleans) live in Spec — most in the Northern Hemisphere. Ginkgophytes (genera p- Ginkgo and Singinko) may be found in both and, although only five species have yet been found. Coniferous trees are somewhat more prevalent in the temperate forests of and than in our home timeline, and certain angiosperm trees (such as the Hamamelidae — oaks, birches, and others) are reduced. Other so-called "advanced" plant groups, such as Musaceae (bananas) and Bromeliaceae (bromeliads) are
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| abstract
| - Spec's floral life is largely the same as that of Home Earth, although the discerning eye can spot the differences. Many archaic plant taxa that, in RL, are extinct or restricted in range may, in Spec, be found in relative abundance. A few plant groups extinct in RL, such as the cycad-like cycadeoidophytes (or bennettitaleans) live in Spec — most in the Northern Hemisphere. Ginkgophytes (genera p- Ginkgo and Singinko) may be found in both and, although only five species have yet been found. Coniferous trees are somewhat more prevalent in the temperate forests of and than in our home timeline, and certain angiosperm trees (such as the Hamamelidae — oaks, birches, and others) are reduced. Other so-called "advanced" plant groups, such as Musaceae (bananas) and Bromeliaceae (bromeliads) are absent in Spec, but others like as Compositae (composite flowers) and Gramineae (grasses) are just as prominent in Spec as in RL (or moreso). The greatest difference in the plants of our respective time-lines seems to be the "nastiness" of Spec's flora. Most Spec plants have evolved potent anti-grazing strategies that would strike a Home-Earth botanist as somewhat excessive. Deadly bracken ferns are common on all continents but, siliceous, deep-rooted grasses cover the plains, and trees are either very tall, poisonous, bushy and fast-growing, or covered with thorns. Without the "break" from high-level grazing that RL's plants got during the early Tertiary, it seems Spec's flora has become increasingly violent in its efforts to deter dinosaurian gullets.
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