Name: Bleach Flowers, Bleachfruit Description: Reddened, round, and glassy pieces of fruit, resembling earth star mushrooms, only found in areas affected by Bleach Creep. The red, fruit-like orb is protected by a gleaming set of glassy-white opaque petals, letting the bioluminescent red shine out from within. Inside the petals are small holes, which house rusty red spore colonies. Can grow in groups, like blackberries, or a singular object, capable of growing to the size of a large pumpkin. Behavior: While not a organism on it's own, Bleach Fruits actually act as a extension of Bleach Creep colonies as a method of luring in hungry organics. Otherwise, Bleach Flowers are just a fruit. Tamability: It's a fruit. Where is it found?: Planets affected by Bleach Creep. Rarity: Common to Uncommon, depending on the ecosystem that it originated in. Diet/Method of gaining nutrients and energy: Bleach Flowers are omnivores, though use a interesting method to dispatch it's prey. While it can consume grasses and plants by simply spreading Bleach Creep above ground, but intelligent, fleshy targets may prove more difficult due to their general smarts and ability to move. When a fleshy creature touches it's covering, the rusty red spores flood out and into the air- Hopefully inhaled by the one touching it. Should this be the case, the creature would, ideally, breath in the spores. Ideally, this would carry them to their lungs, and then begin to rapidly grow, suffocating them from the inside. Once this is done, if the creature expires near a Bleach Flower, it would be consumed and stored in the ripe, red fruit, in which some of the nutrients are dedicated to regrowing the spores and continuing the cycle. Products?: If one can manage to get their hands on the red bit in the middle, they'd find it to be fairly dry in taste, but rich in nutrients. Juicy. Reproduction: Asexual. More copies are made with the growth of a Bleach Creep colony. Size: Blueberry to Competition Pumpkin size, in rare cases. Weight: Can weight up to seven hundred pounds in the most extreme case. Lifespan: As long as a colony lives, a Bleach Flower will live. Abilities: -Spores capable of killing in two days, if the victim is unlucky enough not to receive medical attention. -Omnivore. -Beneficial to Bleach Creep colonies. -Central orb is highly nutritional. Flaws: -No actual intelligence. -Easily defeated with little more than a gas mask. Other: https://galactic-citizen.com/threads/bleach-creep.26/ refrence
So, are these an organism that has co-evolved alongside bleach creep, or is it itself a part of a bleach creep infection? @Ninin
