Ant's Blight
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Ant's Blight is a darkly pigmented fungus that occurs on the bark of fruit trees. While uncommon, this fungus plagues orchards with tightly-packed trees and mutates the trees' fruit.
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Description
The Ant’s Blight fungus appears as a swarm of tiny, shiny black spots on the bark of a tree. However, its interconnected roots can run fairly deep, as it must be able to drink from its host’s water supply effectively. The ant-like spots range in scale from roughly the size of a mustard seed to the size of a pinto bean.
Habitat and distribution
An uncommon plague on most types of fruit trees, primarily found in orchards where fruit trees are tightly packed.
Harvesting
They release their spores around the early spring months, but can also spread through the fruit of the trees they infect. The seeds from inside these fruits, if planted, are guaranteed to grow trees that are also contaminated by the blight. It is these infected fruits that must be processed if one wished to utilise Ant’s Blight’s Symbolic properties.
Cultivation
Ant’s Blight can be ‘farmed’, also; this is conducted by intertwining its roots with artificially erected walls of wood, stone, brick or sandstone in desert or controlled greenhouse environments in direct sunlight.
Uses
Fruit from trees infected with Ant’s Blight develop tumor-like growths and other grotesquely mutated features, and taste rotten and disgusting if eaten, like the ants themselves.
Alchemical
Symbol(s): Connection x2 Weakness x2 Death x1
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