Spor

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Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. plants, distinct from seeds or spores found in the green kingdom. Most spor are airborne, release from spor-pods, the fruiting bodies of virid plants. Many spor are motile with rudimentary flagella, either fertilising mature plants, or randomly bonding with the spor of other plants and settling to make a new plant seedling.

Seaspor is the spor of plants and some animals in the sea. Seaspor are released in large quantities, a useful food source for sea creatures. Some varieties of virid seaweed produce clouds of airborne spor, as fewer of these are consumed by predators. When combined with mist and fog these can drift for many miles, and are called seahars, a notorious hazard to shipping.

Many spor are motile, with rudimentary flagella, microscopic limbs enabling them to wriggle through damp soil and enter the root system of other plants, or climb along plant limbs to fertilisation sites.

Spor can be damaging to human health, acting as an irritant when inhaled or settling on skin. Some varieties of spor are poisonous to humans, particularly seaspor, though these are rare. Some humans can suffer allergic reactions to spor, causing chronic ill health and even death.

Veilspor is a condition in sickly or elderly humans where virid spor that normally colonises rotting virid flesh or plants infects the soft tissues of the nose or mouth, a distressing but rarely life threatening complaint. Veilspor is often an indicator of poverty and malnutrition, seen in city slums and destitute peasant villages.