Overview: The sunshrooma is a dangerous mushroom on the southern continent.
Description: The sunshroom is a mushroom that will sprout and grow during a heavy fog. The longer lasting the fog is, the larger the sunshrooma will grow. In particularly foggy times, they've grown as large as a house, seemingly unfazed by soil conditions and topography. While in the fog, they are a soft orange. However, the moment the fog begins to break, and the first rays of sunlight hit the sunshrooma, it becomes bright orange. It begins to produce orange vapors that linger heavily around the plant, similar to fog, allowing it to continue growing. These vapors do not seem to be dispersed by the sun like fog, though are affected normally by winds. These vapors are a special type of oxidizer. When they touch other organic material, they begin to cause it to decay and break down fairly rapidly, providing more food for the growing sunshrooma.
Appearance: Large, soft orange kettle shaped mushroom heads. Starts out minuscule in fog but grow rapidly and seemingly without bounds. Turns bright orange when matured by the sun.
Location: Anywhere in the forests of the southern continent that fog is present.
Hazard / Toxicity: Highly corrosive to organic beings. Causes burning and necrosis in skin, eyes, lungs if breathed in, etc. Would eventually cause death by this means.
Uses: Poison makers, medicine makers, and alchemists could probably use it.
Credit: Hankley