Dwarven Blast-Cap:
The Dwarven Glow-Cap was a species of bio-luminescent mushroom which was selectively bred by the dwarves to provide bright light for visitors to their underground cities. They soon discovered, however, that this bio luminescence had a far more useful property- explosivness! Now known as the Dwarven Blast-Cap, or simply as the Blast-Cap, these mushroom are known to be highly volatile, producing a small explosion at the slightest rupture in the mushroom's innards.
This mushroom can be harvested and used by itself to produce small, weak explosion (no larger then a fist), though the more common practice is to extract the compounds which allow this reaction and concentrate them even further, producing anything from a gut-sized blast to a 20-foot fireball depending on the chemical's concentration.
These mushrooms are also highly toxic, on top of their volatility.
Wrinkle Rot:
The Wrinkle Rot is a relatively rare, toxic fungus which is similar in appearance to wrinkly, oily skin which grows exclusively on dead animal matter, hence the name. This fungus is highly sought-after for being one of the main ingredients in Blight-Bane, one of the most powerful anti-toxins known, often used in other potions to nullify their ingredient's inherit toxins and poisons. Despite its rarity, techniques for successful cultivation are well-known and documented, though require rather specific conditions which prevent the fungus' mass-production.
Blight-Bane itself requires only the oily secretions on the Wrinkle-Rot's outer skin, though relatively large amounts of it are needed and a single crop can only produce so much. This secretion is also the only edible part of the fungus, though consumption is not recommended due to its horrible taste and texture.
Goblin Crony:
The Goblin Crony is a bowl-shaped mushroom with a slight green tint to it, which has been traditionally used by goblin shamen to both cause and treat indigestion and vomiting. In fairly recent times, however, it was discovered that, when ground to a puree, subjected to a specialized distillation process, then combined with Wrinkle Rot Oil and a small amount of lemon juice, this fungus can produce the most potent anti-toxin currently known- Blight-Bane.
This fungus is fairly common among fungiculturists, especially among the goblins.
Cleric Root:
The Cleric Root is a tough, woody fungus closely resembling an up-turned root, which is well-known for both its ease of cultivation and medicinal properties. Though the Cleric Root's apparent healing abilities are both well-known and well-documented, they are poorly understood and slathered from head to toe with superstitions and folklore. It is said that simply chewing a Cleric Root is enough to ward off death despite any ailment.
Cleric roots are used in a wide variety of low-level potions and can also be used as a substitute for other, more powerful healing agents in the more powerful potion recipes, at the cost of decreased potion power.
Death Wart:
The Death Wart is an incredibly toxic and somewhat rare fungus with resembles a brown, fleshy tumor growing from the ground. They are known for being able to grow almost anywhere, including on completely barren rock, though for some unknown reason spores released by this fungus almost never germinate.
The Death Wart is infamous for producing some of the most potent and deadly poisons known, and simply brushing one against your skin is believed to cause illness.
Astral Cap:
The Astral Cap is a very mysterious mushroom common among fungiculturists and horticulturists for its many peculiar, seemingly magical abilities. Astral Caps, when added to to an existing and completed potion, are known for somehow enhancing the potion's overall abilities. When eaten raw, they are also known a massive variety of effects, seemingly completely random in nature, from heightened focus and concentration to temporary mutations to sudden and explosive bowel movements. Astral Caps are used, in some way, shape, or form, in almost an innumerable amount of potions, remedies, etc., most famous among these being the 'Astral Wonder', which has an effect similar to the consumption of raw Astral Caps but far, far more powerful.
Water Whisker:
The Water Whisker is a wispy, relatively mundane mushroom common in bogs and wetlands. It is known to be edible, and is cultivated in many areas for this exact purpose, though is sometimes also used as a anti-toxin base for some of the weaker potions. It is NOT recommended as a replacement to actual anti-toxin bases, as these mushrooms are known to be unreliable in their ability to nullify toxins.
Table Mushroom:
The most commonly cultivated of any fungus, these mushrooms are grown in many places throughout the world for their unique flavor and texture. Their spores are known to cure some nasal infections, though they are otherwise seemingly mundane.
Pink Beauty:
The Pink Beauty is often compared to the fungiculturist's Holy Grail, and its medicinal properties are the stuff of legends. Finding just one of these incredibly rare mushrooms is enough to turn even the most pathetic of beggers into over-night millionaires and celebrities, and cultivating them would be seen as the pinnacle of any fungiculturist's career.
Red Shoot:
The Red Shoot is a long, thin, reed-like mushroom with a red cap which are known to only grow in a single place in the entire world, in the moist highlands of a single mountain range to the west. Red Shoots have a wide variety of uses, most common of those being a potent healing agent in many potions and elixirs.
Nectar Truffle:
The Nectar Truffle is a somewhat-common fungus which is widely cultivated for its delicious flavor and unique properties. Resembling a puffy tumor seemingly fallen straight from a tree's trunk, the Nectar Truffle's sap is not only incredibly sweet, but also known to increase one's resistance to magic and the elements when made into a salve with certain other ingredients.
Pewter Cap:
The Pewter Cap is a somewhat-rare, toxic mushroom characterized by an unusually shiny mother-of-pearl cap. The skin of this cap can be melted at cooking temperature and mixed with actual pewter to create a very difficult-to-detect and deadly poison known as Pewter Poison. The mushroom underneath this can also be processed and combined with a few other ingredients to produce a salve which hardens upon contact with the skin, producing an effect similar to the spell Stoneskin though to a lesser extent.
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