Rubyvine

The Rubyvine has taken advantage of the taller crystal flora in its environment and begun utilizing their bodies to grow taller. Their stalk has developed to grow much longer, with small branches sprouting from it periodically. These branches are capped with crystals that have small hooks at their ends, allowing the branches to provide a firm hold to whatever they grow on. They will grow at the edges of trees or rocks, or any other sturdy support they can find to use as scaffolding to grow themselves above the forest floor. The vine tip is capped in a large crystal which is the main surface used for photosynthesis, and also the main reproductive portion. By growing taller than its other rubyshroom cousins it can photosynthesis without direct competition and spread its spores for a greater distance thanks to releasing them much higher in the air. Its mycelial runner network is much less prominent, usually only extending around the trees trunk or over to the next tree. It is otherwise much like its ancestor, reproducing both through airborne and waterborne spores and both photosynthesizing and practicing detritivory.