Name: Sigillaria

Scientific: Sigillaria ovata (Sigillaria densifolia also available from EVERYPlant)

This Variation: 3 of 4. This is a High Poly model. A Low Poly version is also available.

Notes: Extinct tree-sized lycopsids from the late Carboniferous to the early Permian Period (about 380 to 255 million years ago); it had a single trunk, which in older plants often branched to a characteristic Y-shape. Very old plants may further branch. The trunk lacked wood, or had a very slender layer only, with support coming from a layer of closely packed leaf bases just below the surface of the trunk. The center of the trunk was filled with pith and it had photosynthetic tissue on the surface, meaning that it was probably green. Long, thin leaves grew in a spiral along the trunk but persisted only near its growing tip; on lower portions of the plant, where the leaves had fallen off, characteristic polygonal leaf scars remained. It appears to have preferred the mineral soils of river floodplains and higher ground. This preference for better-drained soils may have allowed it to survive the drying of the great coal swamps that led to the extinction of many tree-sized lycopsids during the middle of the Pennsylvanian Epoch (318 to 299 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Great Britain, United States, Canada, China, Korea, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Included in this Package: 12 models in total

1. Standard -- 97,993 polygons, 129,497 vertices -- 26.12m tall. Green, fully mature and in good health. Useable in most scenes.
2. Thriving -- 99,492 polygons, 131,109 vertices -- 26.12m tall. Peak health.
3. Unhealthy -- 92,610 polygons, 122,563 vertices -- 26.2m tall. Relatively poor state with foliage missing or diseased.
4. Dying -- 86,279 polygons, 112,769 vertices -- 26.17m tall. Just hanging onto life and showing only unhealthy and diseased foliage.
5. Dead -- 63,712 polygons, 79,976 vertices -- 24.77m tall. Showing only bare and broken branches and dead foliage.
6. Uprooted -- 75,735 polygons, 93,773 vertices -- 5.41m tall. Dead plant fallen onto its side.
7. Ancient -- 152,943 polygons, 206,521 vertices -- 33.09m tall. Very old plant, larger and considerably gnarled.
8. Young -- 41,221 polygons, 53,760 vertices -- 12.66m tall. Smaller plant, some half way through its maturing cycle.
9. Immature -- 12,578 polygons, 16,780 vertices -- 5.26m tall. Very small and young plant.
10. Sapling -- 5,630 polygons, 7,484 vertices -- 2.6m tall. Recently sprouted.
11. Lower Poly -- 8,847 polygons, 15,640 vertices -- 26.12m tall. Fewer polys to save system resources. For mid or distant renders. Standard model included, remainder models upon request (no charge).
12. Higher Poly -- 405,878 polygons, 502,962 vertices -- 26.12m tall. More polys for greater detail. For close-up renders. Standard model included, remainder models upon request (no charge).

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

The textures included are mainly 4k (4096x4096); additional texture sizes of medium 2k, small 1k, and tiny <1k textures can also be downloaded. Separated alpha maps can be download as well.

EVERYPlant has a mission ... which is to model every plant species in the world (plus some extinct, fantasy and sci-fi variations as well)! Okay, maybe not every plant, perhaps just the identifiably different species which have at least a common name!