Flame Spout

This is an amazingly unique flower that only grows on lava floes.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Like flowers of the Amaryllis family, the Flame Spout uses its foliage and root system to gather enough energy and nutrition to create flowers on the end of a single stalk. Unlike amaryllis, however, it does not rely on a bulb, but is instead an annual; and the plant does not survive seeding.

Growth Rate & Stages

The Flame Spout cares not for seasons. It is a slow-growing plant that derives as much of its energy from the heat of its surroundings as it does from the sunlight on its foliage.
As a result, a single Flame Spout flower could take years to fully mature and bloom. Given the right conditions, it could also bloom and seed in just a few months.

Ecology and Habitats

This flower only survives where there is lava covered by rock.

Biological Cycle

Seeds of the Flame Spout flower only germinate after cooking in intense heat that would burn most flammable items. The plant then grows upon the rock, splitting it and leeching as much nutrition as it can from the rock itself with its acid-slimed roots. The flowers of the flame spout flower are a striking royal blue on a single carbonaceous stalk and that attract the Cinderwing butterfly.
Once pollinated, the plants sucks as much energy as it can from its foliage and surface roots. They die off as it sends a siphon-like root deep into the rock, following the heat to get as close as possible to the molten lava. When the tip of this root starts to burn, it carbonizes and thickens enough to split the rock and create a crack, exposing the root to the lava itself. By this time, the flowers have given way to carbonized seedpods, and the molten lava rushes up through the root siphon and through the stalk erupting forth from the tip of the stalk, lunching the seed pods in all directions. This is how the plant got its name.
Disturbing a Flame Spout when its seedpods are mature could be enough to trigger the eruption.

Some brave drunk adventurer caught a Flame Spout Flower on camera just as it blew its seed pods:

Origin/Ancestry

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Conservation Status

As far as we know, this flower only exists in and around @The Glow and the Phlegethon River.