Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms

Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms are a bizarre example of how even tiny creatures such as noants can have an impact on the selection process just by the fact of having agriculture, despite not being especially intelligent individually. Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms split from their ancestor and are the result of cultivation by Gamergate Gundis (which they co-evolved with), which tended to succeed in growing individuals with smaller stalks and would consume and therefore spread the ones with the biggest berries first. They are capable of existing in the wild, but their comically huge oblong berries attract gundis anyway, so they usually end up growing in gundi nests. As a result, they are present anywhere where gundis that farm shrooms are also present, and their range will likewise expand with them. At their initial evolution, they were present in Darwin, Javen, Dixon, Vivus, and the Driftwood Islands landmark.

Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms notably differ from their ancestor in reproduction, which is now sexual. When spores germinate, they form mycelium, and when they meet other germinating spores they automatically fuse. This is somewhat convergent with Terran mushrooms, except that they do not form dikaryons. If they encounter unrelated mycelium after having already fused, they will undergo meiosis so that they may combine. They still form stalks as before, and the spores in the berries are haploid. Similar to their ancestor, their berries are grown on support stalks that grow from the main stalk.

There are many species of Tamed Berry Arbourshroom, but they hardly differ visually due to their specialized niche. The main differences are in size, which correspond to the size of the gundi species that cultivated them. Similar to their ancestor, their spores can pass through the digestive tracts of whatever eats them.