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Gripleaf

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this carnivorous plant was native to Haruun Kal's upland jungles. It extended a series of trailers from its central stalk, which covered the ground surrounding the plant. When a creature stumbled over these trailers, they quickly contracted inward, ensnaring the creature and drawing it toward the plant's main body, where it was slowly consumed and digested. If a creature struggled against the grip of these trailers, the gripleaf simply pulled harder. During the height of the Summertime War on Haruun Kal, arboreal gripleaf plants were used to hang the bodies of prisoners in the jungle, where they could be eaten alive by the various predators and insects which lived there. The bodies were too heavy for the gripleaves to pull up, but the plants stubbornly contineud to try and pull the bodies closer.