3 ALL ABOUT PLANTS

CHAPTER 3 ALL ABOUT PLANTS The next morning, Mom, Sassafras, and I crowded around the glowing seed pod. The pod continued the beautiful shimmering cycle we'd seen the night before: red slowly and gracefully blended into orange, then changed to yellow, and so on until it had gone through all the rainbow colors and started over again. "I could stare at this all day," Mom said finally. "Me too! But we should work on getting it back to the right place. I don't know if keeping it here could hurt it somehow. I don't want anything bad to happen to it." Mom patted my head. "So responsible! You're right." Mom grabbed one of her old science journals and flipped it open. "Let's see here… Pip was right

about magical plants being rare. I've heard that from several magical creatures. The only magical plant I've ever seen was this one." Mom turned the journal around so I could see. "Are those furry purple… fruits?" I reached a finger out to touch the photo. "Ooh, they're so soft!" Every time we take a photo of something magical, the photo keeps a bit of magic. So even though it was just a photo of a giant purple plant, I could feel the fur on the fruits. "Yep, they are! But the seeds from that plant are inside those fruits, not seed pods. So this pod is definitely a different species."

"How are we going to figure out where it came from?" I asked. Mom raised an eyebrow at me. "Umm, maybe we could read? About real plants? To see if there are any that are similar?" Mom motioned with her hand to keep going. "And, uhhh, we could… look at maps? To see the different sorts of places around here a plant might grow?" Mom grinned. "You have some great ideas to get you started. Unfortunately, I have a ton of work. Do you think you and Sassafras can figure it out? I'll be inside if you need me…" I popped my Thinking Goggles on my head and nodded confidently. "Go work. We've got this."

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