Sapshroom

The sapshroom split from its ancestor the polar supershroom. It has expanded its diet to feeding off the sap of carnoferns. It will feed on its host until its dies and then will consume it as it rots. It grows bright pink spore berries which attract frugivores with its bright color. The juice is very sticky and is easily wiped off on trunks of carnoferns by the fauna who eat it. The trunk and cap have no natural pigment and become whatever color it eats. This means purple when its host is alive and then dark brown when eating the rotting material. They also have retained an antifreeze-like chemical in them to prevent them from freezing in the cold.