Turducken plant
The turducken plant is a locomotive meat plant of the poultry plant variety that produces the turducken fruit. Considered a delicacy, especially before the plant was domesticated, the turducken fruit can now be produced in captivity for commercial harvesting and distribution. The turducken fruit continues to hold an elevated status among meat plant foods.
The turducken plant is notable for being the first meat plant native to Illuminatia. It remains the only actively bred meat plant which was not developed by humans for the Lucidus mission.
The turducken plant transpired naturally in the wild as a product of the unlikely co-mingling of wild populations of the locomotive chickenplant, duckplant, turkeyplant. In the regions where the three plant types coexisted, which were rare and only occur in certain specific climates, locomotive chickenplants acquired an affinity for duckplants and began to develop a behavior in which the chickenplant would infiltrate the duckplant.
Natural cultivation process
Chickenplants, known for being the quickest of the poultry locomotive plants, will overtake the duckplant and make maneuvers upon the duckplant. Upon obstructing the duckplant from making movement of its own, the chickenplant will fully insert itself into one of the fruit of the duckplant by accessing the fruit through a cavity which the fruit develop when they begin to ripen. After the insertion, the duckplant is free to continue locomotion of its own. A single duckplant may have multiple fruit on its stalk infiltrated by chickenplants as it becomes a subject targeted by a growing number of chickenplants and becomes slower and slower in its locomotion as it bears the weight of an increasing number of chickenplants.
Through a process in which the chickenplants exert a behavioral influence over the duckplant, the duckplant then begins to seek out turkeyplants for infiltration. Upon finding a suitable turkeyplant, the duckplant then inserts itself into a fruit of the turkeyplant. Multiple duckplants might then infiltrate the fruit of a single turkeyplant.
It is only once this process is finished that the turkeyplant becomes a turducken plant. The naturally assembled turducken plant is considered an entirely different type of plant due to the symbiosis established by the occupation of the fruit of the turducken plant by infiltrated duckplants. The changes induced by infiltration of fruit—even if previously infiltrated fruit have been harvested and are no longer a part of the plant—permanently affect the turducken plant biologically and make the turducken plant a more likely target for further infiltration by duckplants which have themselves been penetrated.
The fruit of a turducken plant are the only part of the plant that are harvested and consumed. A single fruit of the turducken plant itself might be referred to as a turducken. While a turducken plant can potentially be harvested for multiple turducken fruit, the likeliness of a turducken plant having more than one fruit which has been infiltrated by a duckplant which has been infiltrated by a chickenplant is relatively low, and the likeliness of having an increasing number of infiltrated fruit diminishes rapidly.
A fruit of a turducken plant infiltrated by only a duckplant with no chickenplant within its fruit is not possible, as only an infiltrated duckplant is able to exhibit the required behavior necessary to infiltrate a turkeyplant. A turducken fruit containing only a chickenplant is also not possible, as chickenplants do not target turkeyplants.
Social value of the turducken fruit
The greatest delicacy of them all is a turducken fruit which contains a duckplant of which every single fruit of the plant is infiltrated by a chickenplant. This is exceedingly unlikely and often causes the persons consuming such a plant to initiate fantastical celebration of the discovery, often involving the urgent sharing of the food with friends and neighbors.
A turducken containing a duckplant with all of its fruit having been infiltrated by chickenplants which themselves contain multiple fruit is considered the most notable and of the highest culinary value. The price of such a turducken fruit in a retail setting increases with the total count of chicken fruit contained. The counting of the number of fruit of each type contained in a turducken fruit is possible through noninvasive wireless electronic imagery of the fruit prior to being marketed. Many turducken fruit are sold with this total count noted, but others are sold with the total count kept a mystery to the consumer so as to provide a level of surprise for the consumer when consuming the turducken fruit.