Grailshroom

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Grailshroom
(Ciborimycus scaphium)
Artwork of Grailshroom
Species is extinct.
22/?, unknown cause
Creator BioCat Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Phoenophyta
Spherophyta
Spheromycetes
Superfungales
Ciborimycaceae
Ciborimycus
Ciborimycus scaphium
Week/Generation 18/118
Habitat Huggs-Yokto Savanna, Huggs Rainforest, Huggs Temperate Forest, Yokto Temperate Forest, Bone Swamp, Slarti Swamp, Huggs Marsh, Yokto Marsh, Huggs Scrub
Size 18 cm Tall
Support Unknown
Diet Detritivore (Organic matter)
Respiration Unknown
Thermoregulation Unknown
Reproduction Asexual Budding, Extremely Resistant Spores Inside Seedful Fruits



The Grailshroom split from its ancestor the supershroom. It has evolved a new reproduction strategy. Now instead of needing to grow new buds after they are eaten in order to spread its spores it has evolved many small cup-like structures that produces small tiny fruits filled with spore seeds. These fruits are eaten and later grow from the dung of the creature that ate them. All other parts of its body are harder and have a foul taste and hard to digest and are therefore less often eaten. It produces fruits in three colors in order to attract fauna to feed on it by being easily spotted. Like its ancestor it doesn't need the care of the diggerundi though it can benefit from it.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
  • Berry Arbourshroom (order Superfungales)