"No, they're plants," Lance said without looking over, "but they're sentient. They eat nutrients from the soil, they give out pollen, some of them grow fruit, many of them have flowers. So yes, in that way they're like the isitsubute, though only a handful are actually tree-like and not comparable to smaller plants, bushes, flowers or fungi. There's also a large group of them which are as much fauna as they are flora, and no one's quite sure how to classify them; scientifically they're considered to occupy a third, separate order of being in comparison."