Speckled Mushroom

Speckled Mushrooms are large durable toadstools that can act as a natural trampoline. They grow in clusters of their own kind and come in a variety of sizes. They are most often found on the ground of the Kinglor Forest, Upper Plains and Clouded Forest regions across the Western Frontier.
They are compromised of extremely tough, yet flexible fungus that make them extremely difficult for wildlife to eat. The mushroom cap and gills have an interlocking cell structure similar to collenchyma in earth plant life. Looking at the fungus in cross section reveals fibrous, highly elastic, tubular growth seemingly woven together. This structure is extremely resistant to crushing or cutting forces, such as the bite of large herbivores, as well as being able to store and reserve water which makes them quite resistant to pollutants.
A byproduct of their structure is that the speckled mushroom is naturally springy. Falling fruit and other simple hazards bounce off the fungus, leaving it undamaged.
The speckled mushroom is harvested for use in cooking. Their stringy flesh is known to have a sweet, mellow flavor when fermented over several months and softened enough to chew. Na'vi also use the smallest of these mushrooms to create music by crafting a drum with the durable fungus. These drums make notably different sounds depending on which tools they are struck with. Na'vi also use the mushrooms as springboards to assist in climbing trees and to elevated locations.
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