Everpink Alpine Featherprong

The everpink alpine featherprong split from its ancestor, it keeps its feathers and branches through winter. The rubbery bark on its branches and its feathers are damaged through the winter and are shed in the spring, but keeping its branches through the winter allows it to not spend energy on growing completely new ones so it can focus its energy more on growing feathers early in spring. Because they grow their feathers early in spring they can also produce many more spores through the year than their ancestors so they are very common.