the cursed mound the keep on the borderlands

The tendriculos is an enormous, savage, sentient plant. The shrieker emmits a high-pitched wail to lure prey, and when it comes, the violet fungi attack with their tentacles. The shrieker shares a symbiotic relationship with the violet fungus in order to catch food. Main article: Shrieker (Dungeons & Dragons) They are regarded as neutral in alignment. Its primary goal in life is to hunt, grappling victims with its nodule tentacles and bringing them to its mouth. This means it is invisible except when dead. When in its natural habitat (fungal caves) the phantom fungus blends in perfectly and can barely be seen. Coming from the holes between each of the 6 nodules in a cluster, is a long, pink, clawed tentacle. Growing from its shoulders are 6 (3 on each side) clusters of 6 tubular nodules arranged in a hexagonal shape.

It has a central, plantal, greenish-brown body with a large, toothed mouth and four stumpy legs. The phantom fungus is a dangerous plant which lives underground. The two 'eyes' set into the face on the top of the disk are not actually eyes, but heat sensitive lumps which can detect movement and allow them to see almost as if they were not blind. Their enormous mouths are not used for combat, only for feeding. They attack with brute strength, and with their 6 woody tentacles. They spend most of their time sleeping dormant, just beneath the soil and leafy canopy of their habitat, but sense when they or their grove is being oppressed, and rise out of the ground to defend them. Oaken defenders live in dryad groves and assist in the defense of such places. Oaken defenders appeared in the Monster Manual IV. The topside of the disk has what looks like a huge, angry face made of stumps and roots set into it. The Oaken defender resembles an enormous (30 feet (9.1 m) across) disk made of dirt, wood, moss and dry leaves, with six vine-like tentacles protruding from the rim at roughly equal intervals. Main article: Myconid Oaken defender Oaken defender

The cursed mound the keep on the borderlands