#planting legend

[cottonmouthe]

San Diego Stucco Exterior

#Inspiration for a large mediterranean white two-story stucco exterior home remodel with a tile roof exterior #lighting #san diego contractors #exterior landscape design #pool #planting legend

[alithographica]

As promised, welcome to

Fun biology in TOTK’s designs

I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.

Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.

(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)

Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.

PLANTS

Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)

In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often

Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.

Real liverwort photo © Graham Calow, NatureSpotUK

Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(

I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.

Real photo © Gloria Hanley Schoenholtz, virginiawildflowers

All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.

Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia

Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.

These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.

Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.

These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.

Real photo © Dick Culbert, Wikipedia

Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.

Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.

There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.

Real photo © PommeGrenade, pixabay

Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)

Real photo © Helene Rogers, Alamy

I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY

Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.

Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia

Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.

MISCELLANEA

Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.

Real photo via Bernard Spragg

Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.

ANIMALS

Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.

Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.

Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!

Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."

I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.

Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.

Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.

That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.

#tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of zelda #loz #science fun #biology #lizard #plant #botany #image heavy #long post

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

i feel like these things are connected

#i love this site. we're all the same silly little nerds. I don't feel a sense of community anywhere else like here #it doesn't look like there is anything happening with little shop of horrors either #you're all just like 'guys! remember that silly musical about a talking plant! that's so cool!' #and we're all like 'guys! remember that silly tv show about arthurian legend! that's so cool!' #autism tag is self explanatory #autism #bbc merlin #little shop of horrors

[retrogamingblog2]

Flora & Fauna of Hyrule Posters made by WinterZucca

#zelda #nintendo #art #illustration #switch #nintendo switch #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #botw #totk #legend of zelda #link #princess zelda #ganon #hyrule #hylian #plants #fungi #bugs #insects #posters #prints #artists #gaming #video games #nature #forestcore #cottagecore #loz

[yamtaroh]

botw outfit + role swap :)

#zelink #zelda #link #botw #breath of the wild #loz #legend of zelda #my art #when they go travelling together zelda is just constantly like 'omg!!! what is that?? i must know' whenever they pass by a creature or plant #and link just quietly infodumps

[amanitacurses]

#vidow #vio x shadow #legend of zelda #loz #four swords adventures shadow #four swords adventures vio #four swords adventures #four swords #vio link #shadow link #AmaCurses AU #not linked universe #this was actually something I'd drawn a while back- when I first made the other image with these designs #but only just went back to line and render #shadow just planting himself in vio's lap like he belongs there

[enduracarrotchips]

may 12...

#BRUHHH i'm so excited #them......i cant wait to see what they've been up to #i hope they planted a garden #zelda #totk #tears of the kingdom #that tag huh #botw 2 #legend of zelda #consistency? i don’t know her #link #FHGGSHNMMMGGGG. YEAH

[daeyumi]

Golden Beginning 🌼🌾☀️

i originally drew this at the beginning of this year as a sort of new years piece looking forward to TotK release (hence the bnuuy shield since 2023 is year of bun)

#zelda #tears of the kingdom #zelda tears of the kingdom #TotK #Zelda TotK #link #zelda fanart #legend of zelda #daeyumi art #TotK art #TotK fanart #tears of the kingdom fanart #sky islands #i love Link sm i stg #ALSO sharp eyed viewers will notice that this is the piece i’m currently using as my profile pic across all platforms lol #i rly still think this is the only piece where i truly nailed the color for the golden plants on the sky islands

[why-the-heck-not]

tulips !! they’re underrated

#or idk maybe there are ppl who go apeshit over tulips but I’ve never met anyone whose favorite flower is tulip #like they’re not my favorite but tbh I don’t rly have a favorite #unless I’m trying to be edgy & pretentious in which case it’s rafflesia but that’s barely a flower (it’s not it’s a parasite) #and it’s more like ’’oh that’s one fucked up plant’’ rather than that I like it; gives me the creeps so I think it’s fun #idk maybe ppl don’t have favorite flowers?? like that’s an urban legend right??? no one’s there actually like ’’ooh u got my favorite’’ #except for in movies/tv-shows etc. #right??? or idk what do I know #studyblr #dark academia #aesthetic #bookblr #april 2024 #2024

[graves-doodles]

Look at my blushing fool i love him sm, ironically I always drew him as he is with the Garo mask on but he's so much more than that 😭

More Lore Dumping incoming

We all got the basics on this guy: Zelda? Bad. Ganondorf? Took him in yeah but bad. Link? 🤏 Lil fucked up because of them both and he cant talk, ugh awful, tragic

Now this is where it gets interesting. His whole plot comes from him going along with whatever is done to him, secretly becoming that wanted criminal while he hides as a hyrulian guard. So what happens to help escape this?

Well, Zelda is noticing that this new masked crook is silent. Almost like that kid she cursed into being. Who Ganondorf convinced her a while back to let him train and take in as one of the castle knights. So she summons Link and keeps him close to watch him.

Shenanigans happen where Ganondorf meant to send another different masked man to attack while Link is in uniform to protect Zelda and therefore the mask crook cant be Link, see?? Instead the timing of the hit is so wildly wrong and Link ends up protecting someone else instead 👀

Enter Shad. The guy who is single-handedly going to be the moral compass for our poor lil guy. Shad just walks around awe struck after being saved by this knight, and he then starts seeing Link being placed and thrown all over the castle in different positions.

Shad makes sure to always pass by to say hi, and Link finds it so enduring, but has no idea how to handle his emotions and ends up being our bashful boy.

Eventually they hit it off and Shad finds out about the whole "wearing a mask and sent out to kill people" thing and takes it really rough, but sticks by to get Link out of his situation. Absolute bro move 🤝

#legend of zelda #legend of zelda oc #legend of zelda au #my art #link oc #im gonna lore dump so much about these dudes i got like uhhhhh 3 more after this since i did earth already #plants is coming though so maybe i'll have 4 again and then the other 4 after that batch

[luna-lovegreat]

Lu Flora, pointing aggressively at Lu Sun:

"Why is she the one called Sun?!?!?!"

Sun: ... :D

Flora *angry*: "I have ONE plant that I really like, but I specialize in technology research people! I like biology too but I literally have made revolutionary discoveries in sheikah tech! Yet I'm known as FLORA?!?!???"

Flora: "I'M THE ONE WHO HAS A 'SMILE LIKE THE SUN' FOR HYLIA'S SAKE"

The chain: ...

Flora: *storms off*

Twilight: "should we...?"

Wild: "no. never follow her."

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #Lu #lu sun #Lu flora #lu wild #lu memes #she's a little jelly but it's fine #Wilds like I'm not being ordered by an angry king to trail her anymore so I'm just gonna leave her alone yesss sweet freedom #but really #ONE plant #she cools down after legend suggests they call her techno instead #floras fine thanks

[ifelllikeastar]

Jimmy Page

#jimmy page #led zeppelin #love #music legend #do we even need a tag for jimmy #robert plant #did i say love #guitars

[cold-neon-ocean]

My dogs my beloved dogs!! The first line of beastial spirit vine soldiers from my LoK AU. Created by Baatar when during experimentation, he discovered the spirit energy after being condensed causes the vines to react strangely to machinery and processed material. Turning the inorganic to organic.

These soldiers are comprised of spirit vines that have mutated in reaction to the condensed activated spirit energy and adhered themselves to the suits. Similar to "mimics" in a way, they can conceal their mouths fully so they're indistinguishable from human soldiers, though very astute earthbenders may notice they neither breathe nor have a heartbeat.

#LoK #Legend of Korra #LoK AU: Sovereign Guard #Neon Ocean Art #[ *pointing* looookk my puppies! #they are so 'get your fuckin dog bitch. it dont bite. yes it do' coded you know??? #I've had these sketches for nearly 3 years omfg that is how long I've been wanting to talk about them #and this is only series 1 there are other variants including the mecha suits #There is so much more going on with them as well #they aren't sentient they cant think at all #in essence they are funny little plant dudes hehehe #only Baatar and Kuvira know about them and they're hidden throughout their forces #of course they can't do any bending either but that doesn't mean they aren't capable of holding their own #any time you see an immediate security detail around Baatar specifically you can guarantee it's mostly comprised of these #they start out rather simplistic where they just take orders and not much else #but over time they start slowly mutating on their own such as becoming more prone to reacting to Baatar's emotions without him realizing #or taking commands he hasn't said yet #they're also the perfect disposal service for things you want gone and not found #they'll eat anything ]

[another-little-hippie]

these photos of them look like they all just got their hair cut and their mom was so proud of them because they behaved so well and now they look very clean and handsome and “just hold still damit you’ll get your lolly in a second!”

(bonzo gets extra credit for this one)

#70s #classic rock #jimmy page #led zeppelin #robert plant #60s #rock and roll #jimbert #john paul jones #bonzo #hair #haircut #70s hair #70s style #vintage photography #john bonham #jpj #rock music #rock legends #scrapbook art #school photo

[retrogamingblog2]

Zelda Korok Plant Decorations made by Outset Emporium

#zelda #koroks #plants #nintendo #switch #breath of the wild #botw #tears of the kingdom #totk #korok seeds #legend of zelda #planter #garden #gardening #gaming #video games #succulents #art #crafts #gifts #merch #handmade #handcrafted #hyrule #loz #retro #retrogaming

[amethystsoda]

"A plant...?"

#A PLANT :D #trigun stampede spoilers #vash our beloved #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #the plant looks sooo legend of zelda design