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infennus, more commonly known as a cold stump, are marine widespread fungi, these mushroom like fungi use their gill surface to launch their spores, though their spores arent the only way they can reproduce unlike most fungi, they usually have two but similar to the case of this example image, if their gill surface is damaged to the point of actively harming the fungi they will cut it off and reveal something dumunoan humans call evzos blood, its a viscous nutrient rich liquid which the infennus use as a pseduoblood, they develop a thin layer of cuticle above it as fast as they can due to the chemical reaction it causes with the salt water, this chemical reaction with evzos blood and salt water causes the dislodged gill surface to be launched very far from the parent infennus and then when its "access" evzos blood is used up they will slowly land onto the dumunoan seafloor or the corpse of a dumunoan creature and slowly develop until they grow a stem, a cap, and a new second gill, you can usually tell the difference between a spore produced cold stump and a gill produced cold stump by the size of a gill compared to the rest of the fungi, though rare, on occasion two gill surfaces will collide and will grow wrapping around each other, formerly thought to be a different kind of mushroom this was called a twin wart, this is now the name of this phenomena and it has been discovered they dig their "roots" into each other not in a competitive way to drain each other of nutrients until one thrives, but to exchange nutrients and such, these twin warts usually only have one gill per fungus and two caps, it isnt uncommon for twin warts to reproduce with each other extremely commonly, this has lead to people calling them "couple mushrooms", their pseudoblood is highly nutritious and is used as a sauce on meals on dumuno due to its high nutrients and distinct flavour, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask im more than willing to answer