Donnie smiled crookedly, brow arching at that. "Well, normally when I see creatures mutate it's due to more unnatural circumstances, so seeing something of the opposite sort kind of threw me." He stroked his chin thoughtfully, then made a face as he remembered he was still wearing gardening gloves.

"So this is more like...a metamorphosis? Though I've never really heard of creatures changing forms completely, just to migrate. So is this how you're going to look from now on?" Ah, there were the questions. He was probably fine.

The turtle blinked, looking back at the flowers. "Gracidea... it was advertised as a fire lily but the ones of the same name I'm familiar with are a lot smaller and more bulbous, but I figured if it cared to bloom any wider it might look like this. Also, parallel dimension so..." He shrugged, then smiled. "There was a shop in the mall we were br- er, visiting once, so I picked up a whole bunch of rare plants. Things have been busy though so I haven't had a whole lot of time to properly set them up, so they've been hanging out in a corner of the hydroponics room."