Endemic vegetation is characterized by:
- few conifers
- no grasses, the niche filled by the muell tree seedlings
- great diversity of non-coniferous evergreen trees
- great number of beech species, some similar to the New Zealand species
- great number of mushroom, moss, and air plants
- many evergreen trees are unique fern and horsetail species
The most notable agricultural plants and products of Attland are those that define the country's agriculture as a gourmet agriculture. These are:
- The Balm and Iris Orchid, difloral plants unique to Attland, which produce mild mint, and lemon balm flavor vanilla
- Coffee tree, a difloral tree
- Muell (or Bauna), a difloral tree
- Nectar Tree (a difloral Robinia), a source of hard wood, oil, and honey
- Nectar lily, producing a unique flavor essence
- Silkworm silk
- Bush spider silk
- aquaculture is centered on pearl oyster harvesting
The lilac bee and hummingbirds are the primary pollinators for vegetation of Attland.
- Horsetail trees, over 20 feet tall and 1-2 feet diameter
- Ginkgo tree
- Pehuén or Monkey-puzzle pine (up to 7 feet in diameter, 130-240 feet tall)
- Tree ferns
- Flower tree, related to cycads, gingo, and tree ferns, having wide, very large gingko-like planar leaves that form a disc-like crown; in cooler areas growing over almost 200 feet tall, and almost 30-40 feet in diameter
- Hollow tree, a difloral tree, having horizontal branches, and a 50%-75% hollow trunk.
- Vine tree, a difloral tree, some reaching over 350ft tall, developing twisting vine-like outer parts of a trunk, and with branched roots emerging above ground in older trees, capable of having a root underwater or in dark cave, the tree's leaves shaped as a butterfly
- Cycad tree
- Dragon and Socotra Dragon Tree subspecies growing in the same habitat
- Wild tree, closely related to the Australian Wollemia nobilis This bizarre-looking tree was known only from 120 million-year-old fossil leaves before 1994; fewer than one hundred exist in the wild. They have strange bark that looks like bubbles of chocolate, multiple trunks, and ferny-looking leaves growing in spirals. They can grow up to 125 feet tall.
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