Fictional flora and fauna

[cos]

Add something to this world?

• chardvark, a leafy-green insect eater


• crêprevine, grown for its edible thin pancakelike fruit


• great danish, a large canine often filled with cheese and topped with fruit


• plexigrass, a transparent, heat-resistant grass

* Chardvark contributed by Alice Zelman; great danish from April Wells

Comments

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

clutterfly, a cousin to the chaos butterfly, which generates random cruft when it flaps its wings

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sharcuterie-- a cartilaginous fish who makes sausages and other cured meat products.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Meloncollie - a herding dog with a distinctive mournful wail

[kirin]

You realize most of the 700-odd Pokemon fit into this template of plant/animal-plus-thing-pun. I'll refrain from listing them. ;)

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

Giraffia: A spectacularly tall palm tree with distinctive brown splotches running along its trunk.

Camelon: Filled with sweet juice to help it survive the desert, but also ill-tempered and prone to spit.

[carik.livejournal.com]

Have you ever run across the book "A Field Guide to Surreal Botany"? It's full of weird plants, and some of the ones in this thread would fit right in....

[cos]

I hadn't heard of it, but I think I want it. It seems to be out of print and hard to get.

[(Anonymous)]

It was never easy to get, unfortunately. I only knew about it because my former boss (Suzanne Palmer) wrote one of the descriptions in it. I have a copy somewhere, but I haven't figured out which box it's in yet.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

The publisher (at least, I think it's the publisher) has an order page that suggests the book is available at both Porter Square Books and Pandemonium.

ETA: the book search on both store sites turns up empty. Foo.

[lindseykuper]

Crepevine is in fact the name of a restaurant with several Bay Area locations.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Normally I hate portmanteaux, but these are great.