When exposed to the atmosphere it is hygroscopic, becomes gluey, and changes colour, becoming darker.
They fruit in grains covered in a gluey secretion, and when a plant is mature each clump becomes brown and sticky with the exudate.
Instead of venom, it secretes a gluey substance to trap its prey.
Some of the plants are sticky, and all have seeds which become gluey when wet.
The seeds are also carried in a gluey fluid.
The fruits are fuzzy brown achenes only one or two millimeters long which turn gluey when wet.
The fruit is a tiny ribbed achene which swells up and becomes gluey in texture when it is moistened.
Moist caps are gluey with a color ranging from reddish brown to pinkish-lilac; the cap margin has radial grooves mirroring the gills underneath.
