Log Book Entry: Creatures: Flaahgra
"This mutant plant is the source of toxic water in the ruins. Flaahgra's growth cycle has been radically accelerated. As a result, it requires near-constant exposure to solar energy to remain active. This exposure has made Flaahgra's outer shell thick and durable. Concentrated weapon fire can daze it for short periods, but its lower root system is unprotected and vulnerable, however. Exploit this flaw when possible."
Samus's Notes:
I suppose I should count myself lucky that Flaahgra was mutated like that, or it wouldn't have had any real weaknesses at all. The fight wouldn't have been impossible, but it would be a lot harder. I'd have had to destroy the tentacles rather than getting them to retract, all while that thing was attacking me.
Now that I think of it, it was an interesting creature. The blades were obviously meant to fight off predators like me, but that didn't explain its other abilities, and the scan didn't tell me all that much, so I'll have to speculate. The first thing it did was generate a mass of rapidly growing weeds in my direction- and the door's. They were as poisonous as the water was to the touch, damaging my shields, and are so thick none of my weapons can harm it.
My best guess for how it did that is that Flaahgra stores a cache of nutrients both to survive on, and to produce those weeds to trap off or kill potential threats. The fact that it can trap creatures like that, as well as how it flipped the solar panels back up when I turned them off, would indicate sentience, though how intelligent it actually was is impossible to determine.
It has enough nutrients to do this because it has poisoned the water around the Ruins, preventing anything that grows on similar nutrients from growing at all. I suppose that's good for me, I won't have to deal with another one of those.
It also seemed capable of using energy it received from the panels to fire concentrated bursts of light from its 'mouth', probably another result of its mutation.
I suppose that covers its capabilities, but I do have to wonder why the solar panels just happened to turn on every time I hurt it. Was this another of the Chozo's tests?