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Each photosynthetic crystal contains a red core of fungus-flesh. Prematurely shed crystals can connect to the root system of surrounding rifamboos and grow into new individuals. If they can't access a rifamboo root system, they usually die within a few months, often from disease or predation. Scrub barkbacks are a particularly notable predator, eating prematurely shed crystals much like a squirrel eats a pinecone. Rifamboos most commonly reproduce through budding at the roots, rather than fragmentation.

*The ancestor of crystalflora, the binucleus icosahedron truncated icosahedron (BITI) was formed when a fungus-like microbe formed a symbiotic relationship with a plant-like microbe. I presume it's a relationship much like the mitochondria in eukaryotic cells, in that mitochondrial genes are inherited through a different process.