Carrion Blossom – In a desert, there are plants that store water in order to survive droughts. Other plants don't play the long game, lying dormant until rain wakens them up to grow and bloom. Then there are organisms that take that a step further. The carrion blossom is a fungus whose spores lay dormant as they are blown across the desert. When they come in contact with a corpse, however, they immediately wake up and begin drying it up, desiccating in a matter of hours what might have otherwise taken days. The fungus grows all throughout the corpse's circulatory network. After a few hours of time it then begins drawing everything it's absorbed to any holes or perforations in the epidermis of the infected corpse, growing large, red-brown cauliflower-like growths that rapidly expand. When it runs out water these growths crumble and the dormant spores within scatter, once more, to the winds. The fungus is not native to the Dusts and was all but unknown many years back, but is now is sometimes found in the packs of desert alchemists and survivalists.
It is a rather gruesome survival trick to keep some carrion blossom spores on-hand in the Dusts in case one gets isolated. It can be used to draw water out of pretty much anything and eating the growths is harmless as stomach acid breaks the physically fragile plant down easily and any spores that might get into a creature's blood would be immediately flushed and sterilized via the spleen.