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Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:14 am

Hulali's Blessing/Hulali's Buttons (or, more crassly, Hulali's Tits)

A large, round succulent with a single leaf that is used for a water source in the Mugrobi Desert, but only as a last resort. These plants are usually found in clumps of 5 or 10 scattered in all areas of Mugroba, both sandy and rocky. They can grow up to 3 feet in diameter, though specimens found in rockier areas tend to be smaller.

These plants are increasingly rare, as retrieving the water within the plant results in its death and the plants are slow-growers. They often take 15 years to grow to a foot wide, although they can grow up to four inches in diameter if it's a particularly wet year. The plant produces a single large yellow flower every 3-4 years, which is another reason why these plants are becoming increasingly rare. Occasionally, during particularly wet seasons, the plant will send off a short runner that will slowly evolve into another plant, but this is very rarely seen.

To retrieve the water, the plant must be dug up and cut in half. The liquid inside is drinkable, but must be filtered through sand and a piece of cloth with a relatively high thread count to filter out the protective hairs in the liquid. These hairs have toxins in them that can cause gastrointestinal paralysis if ingested, plus they're just generally unpleasant to swallow, texturally. The walls of the plants are thin and, there's enough water in a fully-grown plant for one person to travel half a day on mount. Animals are very reluctant to drink the filtered water, as it smells and tastes like a rotten melon.

These plants are often traded on the black market as exotic plants because they are extremely hard to keep alive in captivity. Captive plants rarely reach more than a foot in width. They are both cold- and heat-tolerant, but they easily get overwatered and die. If watered properly and regularly, the plants may bloom as often as every other year. The Mugrobi government has recently asked that these plants be left alone unless death from dehydration is near to protect them. But it's not clear how well their request is being respected.

A very young Hulali's Blessing, about 2 years old: Image

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