Gnarltree/Legends

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The Gnarltree was one of the most bizzare plant forms in the galaxy. These swamp trees lived on Dagobah and grew slowly upward through the the centuries, their huge roots rising out of the bog, providing shelter in the hollow spaces. Each gnarltree was micronosm of life-forms with lichens, moss, and fungus filling the crannies of the calcified tunk. But the strangest part of the tree was that the knobby white spider was part of vthe gnarltree's lifecycle. The spider was actually a detachable, mobile root that broke free of the parent gnarltree. It became a predator, hunting and devouring to build up it's energy and nutrients before making a clearing and putting down it's eight sharp legs, which become the roots of the new gnarltree.