White-Rim
An open resource was in perfect grasp for a species to take, so B.timetoblastia took it, if it wasn’t obvious from the species name B.cocktufecta afflicts polyphs of the genus phallucaulis, it starts off like any B.timetoblastia, as a spore, except released from the top of a cocktus, but it must land in the splooge of a cocktus to begin life, when having landed in a cocktus’ splooge the B.cocktufecta spore will germinate and grow very rapidly in the nutrient rich solution, though the seeds aren’t directly attacked by the “fungus” amungst them they will fare poorer than usual as they will have less nutrients to use, however often besides this a B.cocktufecta infestation will show no outward symptoms besides the splooge being filled with mycelia, which has complications all its own, but after one winter passes, which is so they don’t accidentally waste energy if they were released later in the season, specialized mycelia climb up the rim of the cocktus, coloring it white as they ‘emerge’ in the hundreds, earning it the common name of ‘White-rim’, they will then begin releasing spores to infect new hosts, usually this dies down during the winter but will return the next spring, and the one after that, and pretty much for the rest of the unfortunate host’s life.
If ejected from the cocktus, though cocktufecta may survive for a while, it won’t be able to handle its food source drying up and rapidly encasing it in a thick covering of dried splooge, and that’s not even mentioning the horrors of competition with ouranus and timetoblastia.