What was the inspiration for the bioluminescent flora that lit up when people walked on it?
[Cameron] has been really enchanted by the tube worms and bioluminescent creatures in the ocean, which have presumably evolved that because there is so little light. So his idea was that on Pandora, it would be like the far north where you have constant low light. He envisioned the living things on Pandora being bioluminescent. What I wrote in a couple of the descriptions was that plants evolved bioluminescence as a way of attracting pollinators, given that they had evolved in a very different light environment than we have here. I am not aware of any plants that bioluminesce [on Earth], but it’s not far-fetched to think that it could happen. Q: How about those jellyfish-like woodsprites that come from the holy tree? A: I think those were something Cameron conceived of a long time ago. They are supposed to be seeds and they may have some kind of non-physical communication between plants and animals. They certainly seem able to hone in on animals and humans, and move towards them. Q: Wh
