Name: Idiot Fruit Tree

Scientific: Idiospermum australiense

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

This Variation: This is a Low Poly model. A High 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 -- 19,294 polygons, 40,900 vertices, 32.34m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
2. Standard 2 -- 18,442 polygons, 38,996 vertices, 31.5m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
3. Standard 3 -- 18,668 polygons, 39,416 vertices, 40.49m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
4. Standard 4 -- 20,346 polygons, 43,077 vertices, 33.7m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
5. Standard 5 -- 14,400 polygons, 30,304 vertices, 37.23m tall. Fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
6. Thriving -- 21,998 polygons, 48,250 vertices, 32.34m tall. Peak health.
7. Distressed -- 16,666 polygons, 34,203 vertices, 31.5m tall. Declining health with some diseased and broken foliage.
8. Unhealthy -- 13,449 polygons, 26,672 vertices, 40.49m tall. Poor state with considerable foliage missing or diseased.
9. Dying -- 10,326 polygons, 19,836 vertices, 33.63m tall. Just hanging onto life and showing only unhealthy and diseased foliage.
10. Dead -- 5,090 polygons, 9,436 vertices, 37.1m tall. Showing only bare and broken branches and dead foliage.
11. Ancient -- 19,430 polygons, 30,328 vertices, 40.31m tall. Very old plant, larger and considerably gnarled.
12. Young -- 6,780 polygons, 14,282 vertices, 24.83m tall. Smaller plant, fully mature but still growing.
13. Growing -- 6,707 polygons, 16,338 vertices, 15.28m tall. Plant not yet mature, some half way through its growing cycle.
14. Immature -- 3,590 polygons, 7,519 vertices, 8.62m tall. Very small and young plant.
15. Forming -- 585 polygons, 1,165 vertices, 2.83m tall. Extremely young and small but taking on its adult shape.
16. Sapling -- 244 polygons, 498 vertices, 1.39m 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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