Mixed Fungest

Between the Culinary Fungest and the Toxic Fungest lies the Mixed Fungest where you can find both edible and poisonous mushroomtrees. it's a neutral zone and the mushroomites tend to not go there and stick to their homewoods.
In the center of the Fungest, we can find the region that called the Fungal Plains by Jaalibali during his travels through the Fungest. Later, when the region was further explored, it gained the name of the Mixed Fungest, as more information about the area became known. It is the area where the fungal forest is at its thinnest, and many patches of land take the form of fungal prairies.
The region does not receive the same amount of rain as the other two, and the presence of easier terrain to navigate has led many creatures from the bogs to the west enter and damage the fungal forests. Many of the gigantic lychen-mushrooms cannot grow there at all, and thus the forests’ height is much more modest, limiting the amount of shade created. This makes the density of the forest much thinner, and there even areas with regular patches of grassland. In these prairies grow the Sunflower Mushroom, a mushroom the size of a wattle tree. It is much more resistant to sunlight than other kinds of fungi, and its underground mycelium grows in such a way to block the development of any spores in an extended area near it. This causes that the Sunflower Mushroom grows alone, its spores only moved by the local moths, which feed of the nutrients within the mushrooms’ gills, all the while being poured with spores. These spores begin falling to the ground once the moths fly away. The mycelium beneath is apparently parasitized by a species of sunflower, which grows in great patches around the mushroom, hence the name Sunflower Mushroom. 
In these areas, the mushroomites are more violent than in the other two regions. Since the fungal forest is frailer here, they have to defend it from the threats that could destroy it. They travel the patches of grassland and sunflowers in great groups, bringing patches of spores wherever they go to try to expand the edges of the forest. And since the fungal forest aren’t as tall or dense, they have to fight in the ground. At first, the mushroomites fought in disorganized hordes, trying to intimidate their enemies into fleeing through sheer numbers, something not particularly effective against ogres or some of the more dangerous monsters from the bogs. This all changed when the humans arrived, since they bargained the creation of military outposts and fortresses to watch over some of the more troublesome spots. This helped the mushroomites immensely with their duties, and as a show of gratitude, they left the humans to use most of the grasslands as farmland, essential to feed the cities. These fortifications were doubled during the wars against the Ogre Kingdoms, and improved with the malicious arts of the poisonous mushroomites living in the south.
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