After listening to Kraken's introduction, Jiang Han felt slightly surprised, but also a little excited. She dropped to one knee and gently used her claws to scrape aside the soil around the plant before her. "Does it have a name?"
"I mean, a reliable scientific name. Not some name you casually came up with to make girls happy, or one based on your own preconceived impressions."
Kraken gave a slight nod, immediately dismissing the Tengu name that had nearly slipped out. After some thought, she said, "Its scientific name should be Qingshan Poaceae—Locust-Leaf Thorn Bamboo Genus—Inner Blue Crystal Thoroughly Coiled Wooden Tube Bamboo—Kraken.V.Kr. That'll be its provisional scientific name. I'll consider using a Chinese surname as reference and naming its abbreviation Kraken's Boiled Hemp Bamboo, representing its use in making side-effect-free alcohol and highly effective specialty anesthetic powder."
"Another teeth-grindingly awful name... I don't even dare imagine how long it'll be once translated into Latin..." Chen Ligu sighed.
Miss Jiang Miao's expression had gone stiff. Theoretically, magical plants were exactly what she studied.
Jiang Han deeply regretted this on her behalf. She could understand the feeling of a group of students going on an expedition with several professors, discovering something new, and then having the professors immediately write a paper and announce, "You lot write one too."
Her backside faintly began to ache.
Perhaps Miss Cen Jing would actually be delighted? Jiang Han compared them in her heart, then asked eagerly, "Is this plant definitely bamboo?"
Kraken smiled. "I brought a whole batch back to the lab and spent the night testing them with Xuelun Curie and Angelite. It really is bamboo. A little thicker, a little shorter, but bamboo nonetheless. The only resemblance it has to any plants we've seen lies in its family, genus, and species. We sacrificed