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Description

Zone 1: Shrub Zone (forest edge)
- Open shrubland with large, bushy shrubs growing everywhere, small crooked trees, lots of grass everywhere. Similar to that of Earths Iceland's forests

Zone 2: Woodland Zone
- Classic European or American style forest. Your standard oaks, elms, chestnut trees and what have you. The forest floor is alive with grass, many bushes, flowers... you name it. In an ocean comparison, this zone might be analogous to a coral reef. in terms of biodiversity.

Zone 3: Fern Zone
- The lowering levels of sunlight favors shade-loving plants, such as ferns and horsetails. The trees are also getting taller overall to seek out sunlight. Less young trees, more older ones (the young trees there are grow tall and spindly towards the light). You also start to see taller and taller tree ferns as you go deeper. Picture a stereotypical New Zealand forest.

Zone 4: Moss Zone
- The ferns start to thin out, followed shortly by the tree ferns, and then the horsetails. The ground is covered in a thick carpet of mosses, liverworts and clubmosses (many of which grow unusually tall). Fungi are becoming increasingly prevalent, flourishing in the gloomy conditions and abundant supply of dead leaves that occasionally fall in from the canopy. The trees here are very old and absolutely enormous. Think Yakushima, but freaking MASSIVE, and quite dark. The immense root systems of these trees are dotted with patches of white, chlorophyll-less parasitic plants that exploit them.

Zone 5: Mushroom Zone
- Even the mosses cannot thrive in this darkness. Instead, there is an EXPLOSION of mushrooms, shelf bracket fungi and molds. The ghostly white parasitic plants are also becoming more common, and bigger. There is no real world analogue to this place! It would look utterly unique and unsettlingly alien.

Zone 6: Ghostwoods
- There is no wind here, so the mushrooms aren't able to spread their spores as effectively. They become rarer. Molds are becoming more common, and carpet the ground. Their pungent moldy stench fills the stagnant air. It's getting harder to breathe...

Zone 7: The Void (putrid heart of the forest)
- A death zone with very little oxygen, where even molds and parasitic plants have trouble surviving. Anaerobic bacteria rule this desolate, oxygen-deprived wasteland.

Trivia
Scientific Names for these zones also include

- Frutex Plain (Shrub/bush zone)
- Silvicultrix Plain (Woodland zone)
- Filicophyta Plain (Fern zone)
- Anophyte Plain (Moss Zone)
- Agaricus Plain (Mushroom Zone)
- Phasma Plain (Phasma means ghost/Spector/apparition)(Ghostwoods Zone)
- Nihil Plain/Nihil (Nihil means Nothing) (The Void)

Description

Zone 1: Shrub Zone (forest edge)
- Open shrubland with large, bushy shrubs growing everywhere, small crooked trees, lots of grass everywhere. Similar to that of Earths Iceland's forests

Zone 2: Woodland Zone
- Classic European or American style forest. Your standard oaks, elms, chestnut trees and what have you. The forest floor is alive with grass, many bushes, flowers... you name it. In an ocean comparison, this zone might be analogous to a coral reef. in terms of biodiversity.

Zone 3: Fern Zone
- The lowering levels of sunlight favors shade-loving plants, such as ferns and horsetails. The trees are also getting taller overall to seek out sunlight. Less young trees, more older ones (the young trees there are grow tall and spindly towards the light). You also start to see taller and taller tree ferns as you go deeper. Picture a stereotypical New Zealand forest.

Zone 4: Moss Zone
- The ferns start to thin out, followed shortly by the tree ferns, and then the horsetails. The ground is covered in a thick carpet of mosses, liverworts and clubmosses (many of which grow unusually tall). Fungi are becoming increasingly prevalent, flourishing in the gloomy conditions and abundant supply of dead leaves that occasionally fall in from the canopy. The trees here are very old and absolutely enormous. Think Yakushima, but freaking MASSIVE, and quite dark. The immense root systems of these trees are dotted with patches of white, chlorophyll-less parasitic plants that exploit them.

Zone 5: Mushroom Zone
- Even the mosses cannot thrive in this darkness. Instead, there is an EXPLOSION of mushrooms, shelf bracket fungi and molds. The ghostly white parasitic plants are also becoming more common, and bigger. There is no real world analogue to this place! It would look utterly unique and unsettlingly alien.

Zone 6: Ghostwoods
- There is no wind here, so the mushrooms aren't able to spread their spores as effectively. They become rarer. Molds are becoming more common, and carpet the ground. Their pungent moldy stench fills the stagnant air. It's getting harder to breathe...

Zone 7: The Void (putrid heart of the forest)
- A death zone with very little oxygen, where even molds and parasitic plants have trouble surviving. Anaerobic bacteria rule this desolate, oxygen-deprived wasteland.

Trivia
Scientific Names for these zones also include

- Frutex Plain (Shrub/bush zone)
- Silvicultrix Plain (Woodland zone)
- Filicophyta Plain (Fern zone)
- Anophyte Plain (Moss Zone)
- Agaricus Plain (Mushroom Zone)
- Phasma Plain (Phasma means ghost/Spector/apparition)(Ghostwoods Zone)
- Nihil Plain/Nihil (Nihil means Nothing) (The Void)