4 Blugi Blight

Name: Blugi Blight
Descendant of: Molfuzz
Description: A simple fungus-like organism that has two different type of mycellial tissue. One type is a tube with walls one-cell-thick but made up of many cells circumference-wise. They house a bacteria that breaks down plant cellulose. the bacteria don't even have to move, they just need to produce the enzyme. The large tubes meander between live healthy plant cells. They shoot off the second type of mycellial tissue, the hyphae more typical of their ancestors, where the tubes are made from the vacant centre of single cells. The hyphae's function is to carry out the invasion of the plant cells and digestion process, while the larger tubes are major conduits to carry nutrients back to the fruiting bodies near the surface (while the housed bacteria take some of these nutrients).
A few of the bacteria migrate up channels inside the fruiting bodies and occupy vacant pockets in special feminized spore cells, ready to seed the next generation of Blugi Blight with the symbiote.
From a macroscopic view they look like a dirty teal green fuzz growing outwards from within the blugi's (or blugi-descendant's) structure. These are the fruiting bodies.
Reproduction: Fruiting bodies cast off spores to the sea or wind. Spores can be sexual or asexual.
Food: Blugi (parasitism), Hairgi (parasitism), Blalgi (parasitism), Redgi (parasitism)
Ocean Locations: 1 (Coast) Land Locations: 1 (Coast)

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• 2 Molfuzz

Genetic Descendants

• 10 Milmold
• 9 Spoimold