EVERYPlant Idiot Fruit Tree for Daz

Name: Idiot Fruit Tree

Scientific: Idiospermum australiense

A.K.A.: Ribbonwood, Idiotfruit Tree, Idiot Tree, Green Dinosaur

Notes: This tree is one of the world's rarest and most primitive flowering plants. Twice thought to be extinct, its rediscovery in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest in the 1970s was arguably Australia's most significant botanical find. This tree is found only in two small areas of the tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a relic of the ancient forests of Gondwana, surviving for 120 million years, and displaying features that are almost identical to fossil records from that time. This species was originally described in 1912 by the German botanist Ludwig Diels, based on material he collected in 1902. He arrived in the area in June, a month that is now known as the peak of the flowering season for this species, but he was ill-prepared and was only able to collect flowers that had already fallen to the ground. By the time Diels published his paper, the lowland forests were being cleared for sugar cane farming, and were gone by the 1920s. The original specimen plant material was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943. The species was thought to have been lost entirely, but in 1971 a grazier discovered some of his cattle had died unexpectedly after suffering spasms. It was later found that the cattle had ingested the fruit of this tree, hence the rediscovery of this species.

There are 16 models in this set:
5x Standard. Green, fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
5x Health. Thriving, distress, unhealthy, dying, and dead.
6x Maturity. Ancient, young, growing, immature, forming, and sapling.

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Software: Daz Studio 4

Where to buy: Renderosity

Publish date: March 20, 2025