Purple Mushroom

The Purple Mushroom is a highly dangerous fungus that grows (strangely) all over the universe. Like cordyceps, it can be parasitic (although it is known to feed on many things) and, when the victim swallows or inhales the fungus' spores, mycellium or cap, the victim will turn into a Purple Mushroom Zombie.

How to identify
Purple Mushrooms are purple, luminous and trasnparent. If by chance you see one, stay away from it and burn your house to ashes. Seriously.

Infection
If by chance one has swallowed or inhalled its mycellium, spores or even the cap, this subject should take the cure to the Purple Mushroom, otherwise, it will turn into a mushroom zombie, even if the victim is a robot. One will only turn into a mushroom zombie after three days of infections. It will be sudden and the victim's skin or armor will turn purplish. The mycellium will come out from the victim's eyes and, in few minutes, purple mushrooms will grow on the victim's head, starting the cycle all over again.

Infection on Robots
When it infects a robot, the mushroom zombie will be 2x stronger, although the infection takes 6 days until the victim becomes a zombie. Some kind of colony of mushrooms appears to form on the victim's head, forming some kind of fungoid brain. This phenomena is still being studied.