What people deliberately grow
Rainroot is a pale, wet-soil tuber that stores well while its skin remains sound. Slow cooking sweetens it; damaged roots can admit blackwater fungi. Lamp grain grows beneath scheduled light and becomes flour, sour bread, and thickening paste. Bittergreen names a family of mineral-tolerant leaves, not one plant; useful growth can also concentrate unwanted salts.
Meshvine supplies cord, matting, filter backing, and repair thread. Its escaped roots can prise panels apart, making one resident's shade another's leak. Glasspod fruit is protected in upper-tier and Growth cultivation. Damaged pods travel downward as pulp; a whole crisp one is a conspicuous treat below.
Cultures worth keeping
Lantern caps fruit in warm racks and dry into stock. Their opening caps also tell growers about a room's humidity. Blackbread culture lives in household starters passed between kitchens. After a flood, a fragment from a neighbor may restore a lineage of meals.
Stitch mycelium binds fiber into panels and packing, but building material has to be dried or killed before it keeps growing through a wall. Fever lace is a dangerous red-gray post-flood mold. Grave bloom decomposes wet protein and can reveal a hidden death without being supernatural.
Growth has consequences
Sump lace feeds small life and enters managed recovery, but an uncontrolled sheet blocks drains and depletes water. Iron lichen helps experienced workers read corrosion; it does not repair the metal. Saturated Hush moss absorbs some high-frequency sound, not every noise. Glassfilm can live in warm water systems without every appearance meaning disaster.
Seeds ride shoes, freight, fur, ropes, and flood debris. Cultivation means sorting, trimming, testing, and deciding what must be removed. An edible crop can split a retaining wall; a beautiful flower can be simply beautiful. Ordinary growth provides the baseline for stranger events. Several unrelated plants leaning toward the same person is different from one odd mushroom in a wet room.
