Name: Idiot Fruit Tree

Scientific: Idiospermum australiense

A.K.A.: Ribbonwood, Idiotfruit Tree, Idiot Tree, Green Dinosaur

This Variation: This is a High Poly model. A Low Poly version is also available.

Notes: This tree is one of the world's rarest and most primitive flowering plants. Twice thought to be extinct, its rediscovery in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest in the 1970s was arguably Australia's most significant botanical find. This tree is found only in two small areas of the tropical rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a relic of the ancient forests of Gondwana, surviving for 120 million years, and displaying features that are almost identical to fossil records from that time. This species was originally described in 1912 by the German botanist Ludwig Diels, based on material he collected in 1902. He arrived in the area in June, a month that is now known as the peak of the flowering season for this species, but he was ill-prepared and was only able to collect flowers that had already fallen to the ground. By the time Diels published his paper, the lowland forests were being cleared for sugar cane farming, and were gone by the 1920s. The original specimen plant material was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943. The species was thought to have been lost entirely, but in 1971 a grazier discovered some of his cattle had died unexpectedly after suffering spasms. It was later found that the cattle had ingested the fruit of this tree, hence the rediscovery of this species.

Included in this Package: 16 models in total

1. Standard 1 -- 190,789 polygons, 280,518 vertices, 32.67m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
2. Standard 2 -- 200,810 polygons, 294,984 vertices, 33.69m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
3. Standard 3 -- 191,827 polygons, 282,454 vertices, 40.99m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
4. Standard 4 -- 219,508 polygons, 318,540 vertices, 34.67m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
5. Standard 5 -- 146,252 polygons, 213,437 vertices, 38.6m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
6. Thriving -- 224,357 polygons, 337,557 vertices, 32.67m tall. Peak health.
7. Distressed -- 114,528 polygons, 179,405 vertices, 33.69m tall. Declining health with some diseased and broken foliage.
8. Unhealthy -- 59,797 polygons, 98,055 vertices, 40.99m tall. Poor state with considerable foliage missing or diseased.
9. Dying -- 38,869 polygons, 61,618 vertices, 34.67m tall. Just hanging onto life and showing only unhealthy and diseased foliage.
10. Dead -- 17,417 polygons, 26,002 vertices, 37.14m tall. Showing only bare and broken branches and dead foliage.
11. Ancient -- 147,222 polygons, 214,535 vertices, 41.93m tall. Very old plant, larger and considerably gnarled.
12. Young -- 67,979 polygons, 99,344 vertices, 24.36m tall. Smaller plant, fully mature but still growing.
13. Growing -- 42,666 polygons, 65,706 vertices, 15.5m tall. Plant not yet mature, some half way through its growing cycle.
14. Immature -- 7,526 polygons, 15,117 vertices, 8.71m tall. Very small and young plant.
15. Forming -- 1,934 polygons, 3,692 vertices, 2.84m tall. Extremely young and small but taking on its adult shape.
16. Sapling -- 806 polygons, 1,545 vertices, 1.4m tall. Recently sprouted.

Re-meshing and any reasonable modification available upon request. No charge to existing customers of the product.

The textures included are mainly 4k (4096x4096).

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