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Flora and Fauna of Payalwa

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Introduction

Payalwa’s landscape supports a distinctive range of flora and fauna adapted to its temperate marshy lowland conditions. This page lists some of the more unique creatures and plants native to Payalwa.

Flora

Further information: List of flora of Payalwa

310 species of vascular plants were said to be found in Greenland in 2019,Template:Cn including 15 endemic speciesTemplate:Cn. Although individual plants can be profuse in favourable situations, relatively few plant species tend to be represented in a given place.

In northern Greenland, the ground is covered with a carpet of mosses and low-lying shrubs such as dwarf willows and crowberries. Flowering plants in the north include yellow poppy, Pedicularis, and Pyrola.[1][2] Plant life in southern Greenland is more abundant, and certain plants, such as the dwarf birch and willow, may grow several feet high.

The only natural forest in Greenland is found in the Qinngua Valley. The forest consists mainly of downy birch (Betula pubescens) and grey-leaf willow (Salix glauca), growing up to Template:Convert tall,[3] although nine stands of conifers had been cultivated elsewhere by 2007.[4]

Horticulture shows a certain degree of success. Plants such as broccoli, radishes, spinach, leeks, lettuce, turnips, chervil, potatoes and parsley are grown up to considerable latitudes, while the very south of the country also rears asters, Nemophila, mignonette, rhubarb, sorrel and carrots.[2] Over the decade to 2007, the growing season lengthened by as much as three weeks.[4]

In the 13th-century Konungs skuggsjá (King's mirror), it is stated that the old Norsemen tried in vain to raise barley.[2] Recent research from archaeological digs on Greenland by the National Museum in Copenhagen discovered barley grains and concluded that the Vikings were able to grow barley.[5]


 
Drawing of the Velhudo fungus.

Velharrama - A shrub that is known for it's bright red berries. The berries release a sweet smell and eating them is known to allow the eater to experience a vivid a story. Storytellers thus use the berries to generate new ideas or remember old tales.

Brumerva - A pale marsh fern whose leaves are often used in teas and poultices.

Velhudo - A mash fungus tied to folktales about silent monks wandering the swampy landscape.

Avoredo - The most common tree in the Western Lowlands in Payalwa.

Fauna

 
Etching of a Panten head

Pantens - Large mammals creates with wide hooves that can easily cross marshy peat.

Jacas - Reptilian swamp dwellers.

Xiphos - Deer like mammal that lives throughout Payalwa.

Hesperon - Water birder native to the swamps of Payalwa.

Myriopas - Huge winged insects.


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