Miran Vine

From: raeky
Date: 2002-05-23 17:54:06

This is really for sweetshop:

There are a couple biological problems I see with the Miran Vine.

The poisons that you described, I broke them down into two separate enzymes in my alchemy page. In plant physiology the sap circulates so if the poisons are deactivated in the leaves then eventually all the poisons of the plant would be deactivated. The only exception I see to this is:

The enzymes that are poisonous and hallucinogenic are in fact a nutrient enzyme that is produced by the roots and is used by the leaves in there metabolic processes. The sun doesn’t deactivate it in the leaves but instead it is consumed by the leaves. The leaves and the rest of the plant will have to be UV protected (since I propose that its UV light that disables the enzymes.) To do this the cell walls will contain a UV filtering pigment, I’ve colored it black, but it could be a different color in the leaves. This pigment can be used for things like paint, dye, ink, etc..

This has a couple biological problems, one being that enzymes usually are not consumed they are reusable, but it’s not that big of a problem.

Also this look a like vine Arinia Vine needs to be near physically identical, with only MINOR differences. I propose that it’s a look alike evolutionary product. It just so happened to evolve to look similar to the Miran Vine and thus it became protected from animals eating it because they thought it was the poisonous vine.

I think that’s it. :)

From: raeky
Date: 2002-05-23 17:56:02
In-Reply-To: 1562

The UV protection in the leaves makes it even better suited as a roofing agent, since it will absorb the harmful uv light, and if its a black pigment it will also absorb the infrared light so the shade produced by these leaves would be cooler then other roofing materials. :P

From: Rahl
Date: 2002-05-23 18:21:23
In-Reply-To: 1563

That makes sense and makes the Miran Vine more like an all purpose plant and not just an assains tools of the trade

From: sweatshop
Date: 2002-05-25 05:01:24
In-Reply-To: 1564

Sounds fair. I will change it immediately.