She speaks slowly, and he can hear the pride and yes, love in her voice. "Three hundred and forty three species of lichens, fungi, and proper plants. Grasses and low scrub and the like. Twelve major species of flowering trees, which are much like Earth's trees, save for the symbiotic nature of their interaction with the interspecies bacteria. Fourteen carnivorous plants. Small ones, easily kept fed and contained, no worries there. And one hydra, which is somewhere between a plant and an animal. We keep it well-fed so it never needs to move on. It seems very happy up here."