After quickening and hatching to release the flumphs' aquatic larvae, each looking somewhat like a bizarre cuttlefish mixed with a grub, the seed pod begins to dissolve into jelly in the water, eventually leaving no evidence of its existence. Sometimes especially large seed pods landing in calm waters dissolve their materials on the ocean or lake floor, attracting corals, crustaceans, mollusks, and other bottom feeders. Immobile aquatic creatures and plants growing in these areas tend to form swirling geometric fractal patterns and develop far different coloration than other specimens of their kind.