Toxstool

The Toxstool is a species of Sporovid, and cousin to the Puffstool that was recently discovered by the Rescue Corps on PNF-404.

Biology
Toxstools appear similar to their more vulnurable cousins: a stocky body with two stubby legs and a large mushroom cap making up the head. Its coloration is a dullish blue for the cap, with its lower body a paler gray color, with its two stalks still a reddish color like the Puffstool before it.

Reproduction
Being a form of mushroom, the Toxstool's main form of reproduction involve it releasing spores and spreading it as much as it possibly can. To accomplish this, the spores are released either on a smaller animal or a dead carcass, in which the spores take hold and begin to take control of the bodily functions. The infected animal (typically a Dwarf Bulborb though other animals had been reported, such as the Pyroclasmic Slooch) falls under complete control of the fungus, as the host searches for nutrients to feed said spores. Upon death, the body is consumed of its nutrients, and a juvenile Toxstool is soon emerged from the host body.

Behavior
As a fungus (or organism mimicking the nature of such), the Toxstool is a form of decomposer in its environment, with a diet mainly involving decomposing plants and animals. One curious behavior though is that if a recently infected animal would die near it, it would "resurrect" it by re-infecting the body with more spores, possibly to better increase the chances of fully maturing the spores on the body.