Levimimics

Levimimics are a type of fungus unique to the 'Terra Lost' Universe's Earth. They are one of the three primary types of flying/floating "plants" currently known to exist. Levimimics are plants (technically a unique type of Fungi and thus not a plant or animal) that visually 'mimic' Levitrees and Levicorals. The fungi have a form of Telekinesis, allowing them to 'push off' the ground and thus float, much like Hexapyro species do (which is also how Levicorals and Levitrees the work. Hot Air Balloon Plants work in a very different manner). This form of telekinesis (maneuvering one's self in relation to matter, esp 'pushing off' the planet or another super-large object) is generally referred to as Antigrav.

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Levitree Mimics

Floating bushes/plants that are not one of the three 'true' Levitrees. These are 'parasitic tree mimics' and trees-bushes lack the huge root system of the true levitrees and instead attach to an object like a rock, tree... or animal... and lift it up into the air, slowly consuming/digesting what it attached to. When its 'prey' is gone they will slowly sink towards the ground until they find something else to attach to... then it's up up and away again.
There are two groups of Levitree mimics

Large, Tree-type Levimimics

• Spiral Levitree: the trunk grows in a rising (and slowly tapering) spiral, sometimes also in a double or even triple helix, surmounted with a small bunch or fan of 'leaves' at the tip of the spiral
• Delta Levitree: the trunk grows straight, tapering from a wide, mangrove like, base, to a slender tip. Sprouting out from the trunk are long, horizontal. branches ending in a long, broad, delta/triangle (or heart-shaped) leaves. The leaves are edible (comparable to shiitake in taste), but the trunk and roots are poisonous (hallucinogenics comparable to LCD). Two common versions are present. The Sparse-Delta has a low number of branches and tends to have small leaves. The Dense-Delta has a large number of branches and tends to have large leaves

Medium and Small, Bush-type Levimimics

• Mourning Levibush/Sprite-Willow/Fountain Levibush: has a oval-shaped trunk, with a 'spray' of thin tendrils/branches coming out in a radial pattern, like water spraying up from a fountain. There are also two 'broad leaf' variations, one with smooth long oval shaped leaves; one with jagged long triangle shaped leaves
• Scrub Levibush: a long, straight trunk with a cap of tightly packed needle-like leaves
• Pine Levibush: closely related to the Scrub levibush, they have short straight trunks (sometimes with the trunk being underground) with a tall cylindrical or cone shaped bush of needle-like leaves
• Sail-Feather Levibush: has a straight trunk (sometimes swells in the middle) with a long single branch that has stiff, interlocking, leaves growing alongside one side of the branch, making the levibush look like a large feather or plane-wing. Sometimes the leaves can be a bit rough/ragged
• 'Iris' Levibush: has a long, slender trunk, topped with fat rounded leaves, a few large flat leaves, or a few small bunches of needle-like leaves. Can look a bit like an iris or similar flower.
• Molasses Pitcher: has a small cushion-like trunk, and will grow a large 'flower' as it consumes it's 'host' (usually levitrees and levicoral). The pitcher flower is not hollow, but instead is filled with a series of cells filled with a molasses or honey like liquid (is usually a bright, almost neon, green - but can also be blue or yellow) that is edible to animals and plants... technically, as it possesses a hallucinogen comparable to the thujone in wormwood. While not in high enough percentages to be lethal to humans (even human children), consuming the molasses raw can make you high. It is possible to filter it by adding the molasses to boiling water, then passing the now lower viscosity liquid through a carbon/charcoal filter. Excess molasses leaks out of the pitcher and down the side to the ground, where it can enrich the soil in a levitree's root-ball or be eaten directly by levicoral polyps. Unlike pretty much all other levimimics, Molasses Pitchers exist in an overall symbiotic life with levitrees and levicoral. The 'molasses' makes a drink that is generally compared as a absinthe/rum cocktail. It can be used for sugar production, much like sugar cane or sugar beets... although it will always have trace amounts (or sometimes large amounts depending on how it was filtered) of the hallucinogen.
• Sweet Lilly Bush: Little to no trunk with leaves/petals/tendrils forming a thick ring around the base, with a tall, lily like, flower sprouting out of the middle. It has a sweet and alluring smell and a sweet nectar, making it popular with insects and Sky-Fish as a food source.
• Succulent/Cushion Bush: Grows in a sphere like, or plump cushion-like shape. There are dozens of varieties, varying in size, rough shape, and color. All are edible - ranging in taste from puffball mushrooms to prickly pear cactus.

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Levicoral Mimics

(Adhering Levicorals / Shelf Levicoral/Levifungus / Sky-Barnacles)

Unlike Levicoral, which are dead 'bodies' with only a living surface, adhering corals are overall entirely 'living' with no dead 'core'. They attach themselves to rocks, trees, levitrees, levitree-mimics, levicoral, or even other levicoral-mimics and basically just counter the gravity; aka lift whatever they're attached to up. Adhering levicorals are eating whatever it is they lifted up into the air, be it vegetable, mineral... or animal... and basically lift the object up to get it away from other competing fungi and the like. Once they've consumed all of what they attached to the levicoral goes dormant and drops to the ground, where it either dies or attaches to something else, re-adheres and becomes active and up we go again. Overall, shelf levifungus prefers to adhere to rocks and metal above all else, although tree-trunks (and the hulls of sky-ships or to houses) will be 'grabbed' as well.
Not all Sky-Barnacles are 'shelf' types, as some can look like fans, tubes, and other 'soft coral' forms.

Shelf Levicoral / Shelf Levifungus

• Table Coral: The most common type of Shelf Levicoral, shaped and have several small, glowing jewel-like nodes showing though their top and bottom sides, and are usually found growing horizontally from wall, but could be occasionally found growing vertically. They can grow in green, blue, red, and purple.
• Rippled Plate: A hemi-elliptical shelf in shape and has a ridged upper side and a porous underside. It has a cyan-purple gradient for its colors, along with purple-dotted patterns.
• Bracket Plate / Conk Plate: Strongly resembles (and may indeed be a mutation/form-of or at least a case of convergent evolution with Bracket Fungi. The most common form is one that resembles Turkey Tail, as well as Beefsteak Fungus, Artist's Conk, Sulphur Shelf and so many more.
• Tree Plate: Grows exclusively on tree-trunks. Large circular 'padded' plates with a smooth blueish-black top and a faintly glowing orange porous underside. Tree plates can grow to massive size, having a 12 foot diameter on the upper end
• Shell Plate: A smooth topped cresent-like shelf, olive in color with the underside being identical in color to the top.
• Stacked/Slanted Plates: A group of slanted plate corals arranged close to each other, with a variety of sizes. It is mainly dark green in color, with the bottom part having a wide arrange of colors. Often compared to a group of plates stacked in a dish drainer.
• Veined Plate: Oval shaped corals, which have bioluminescent yellowish and brown branching patterns on their surface. They have a slightly rough surface with some pits between the branches.
• Lantern Shelf / Jellyfish Shelf: A rounded, hollow half-cone shelf, sweeping down on the bottom to a bunch of fine vines/jellyfish like tendrils. It is carnivorous rather than eating mineral/plant matter. It works rather like a pitcher plant for its hollow half-cone and like a sundew/drosera for it's tendrils. It captures insects when small/young, but can capture animals as large as (or larger than) humans when fully grown. It is sometimes called a lantern shelf as the half-cone glows surprisingly bright in a blue or purple light. They're very popular to purposefully put on homes/work locations as they function as highly effective 'bug-zappers' and it's quite easy to cut them down/remove the if they start to grow too large. Sometimes abandoned homes or towns will have several 'human killer' lantern shelves growing on them... resulting a ghost town vanishing piecemeal into the sky.

Other Levicoral / Levifungus

• Glow Bowl: has a light purple, blue, or green glow as well as glowing white dots going in straight lines down to the bottom of the coral. The coral also slopes up at the end, creating a half bowl kind of shape. This species can be seen hanging with many others of its species in small clusters.
• Lyre: A large bulbous nodule at the base, from which a long vine-like structure extends upwards. The vine splits into multiple vines as it moves upwards, and attached to them are large crescent-shaped growths, supported by many smaller vines. The whole plant is a pale yellowish-green in colour, with a few dull purple accents and red bands on the vines.
• Tube / Pan Pipes: Light brown, tubular coral that range from being short and rotund to long and skinny, with light brown tips. They are almost always found in groups of twenty or more. The inside of most tubes have an orange bioluminescent glow. They capture water in their hollow tubes (and won't say no to any bugs or debris that get caught in the water)
• Sieve Shade Lantern: A bulbous purple stem with a red and orange bulb at the tip. The bulb is surrounded by a complex cup-shaped lattice that has many spikes protruding horizontally outwards, drooping down. The cup is light orange around the rim, transitioning to purple near its center. It emits a strong light from the central bulb, easily 500 lumens and can be over 1500 lumens with nutrient rich food. Often used as light sources in homes, taverns, places of work, and as 'street lamps'.
• Foxglove Vines: A bioluminescent flower like sections with pink rims around the end. At the end on each flower are three little stem-like objects that hang of each flower. All the flowers join together to make a vine-like Coral.
• Nest Barnacle: A round, brownish-yellow shell with a recess in the center. The recess is colored dark green and has three luminescent egg-like circles in the middle.
• Kudzu Moss: A mossy material wrapped around a grey rock formation with a wide base that splits off into multiple branching sections. The coral itself is wrapped around the rock like a net and is green in color. It can grow over things like Kudzu and completely swamp/envelop other plants, cutting them off from light and smothering them, using them as further food.

Scientific Name

Fungi Vitaecaeli