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... flower on top was a symbiotic bait-and-switch scheme where the fungi were protecting a valuable plant as a way of luring in prey.

It was a good scheme. The mushrooms would kill the host, decompose it, and potentially provide nutrients to the mana-intensive plant.

There was just one problem with that theory: saprobic mushrooms decompose dead matter—not live prey. Even pitcher plants, famous carnivorous plants that lure in prey and decompose the body for nutrients with the help of ...

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