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this species of incredibly large plant was native to the planet Zonama Sekot. Boras could grow to be six hundred meters tall, with diameters well over 10 meters at their base. The foliage of the boras formed an immense canopy over the planet, colored with greens and dotted with gold, blue, purple, and red. Despite their size and shape, most xenobotanists did not classify the boras as a tree. The original colonists, however, could only liken them to trees, and used the Ferroan word boras - which meant tree - to describe them. The balloon-like leaves of the boras were used by the colonists as airsacs, which were used to create floating airships. The lifecycle of the boras was the model after which the creation of Sekotan starships was developed. The ancient boras drop seeds to the ground, which move about to feed on the dead limbs the boras tree drops to the tampasi floor. Then, during periods of intense thunderstorms, the boras channel raw lightning through their branches to the seeds on the ground, filling them with energy and cracking them open in a process known as forging. Once the seeds are opened, special leaves on the boras tree shape the seeds into future boras trees in a process known as annealing. In this way, no two boras trees are alike. The original Magister of the planet trained the boras to move their dense canopies over the organic factories of the Jentari, blocking the creation process from prying eyes. Wild boras were known to be dangerous and territorial, and at least one grove of rogue boras existed on Zonama Sekot.