This article relates to the official games. See Pikipedia's "Startle Spore" article for more official information.

The Startle Spore is a hostile chrysanthemum that burrows into the ground to disguise itself as a cluster of red mushrooms. When Pikmin or leaders come near, it hops out of the ground and almost immediately thrusts its tongue out at them, leaving a splatter of poison on where it landed. If it misses, its tongue will rebound and hit it in the face, stunning it for some moments. It will return to its hiding place when left alone.

In fanon games

Startle Spore
Enemy
	Appearance in Pikmin 4.
Scientific name	Taraxacum fungenesus
Family	Chrysanthemum

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Pikmin 1 (list)	Armored Cannon Beetle • Beady Long Legs • Breadbug • Burrowing Snagret • Dwarf Bulbear • Dwarf Red Bulborb • Emperor Bulblax • Female Sheargrub • Fiery Blowhog • Goolix • Honeywisp • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Male Sheargrub • Mamuta • Mushroom Pikmin • Pearly Clamclamp • Puffstool • Puffy Blowhog • Shearwig • Smoky Progg • Spotty Bulbear • Spotty Bulborb • Swooping Snitchbug • Water Dumple • Wogpole • Wollywog • Yellow Wollywog
Pikmin 2 (list)	Anode Beetle • Anode Dweevil • Antenna Beetle • Armored Cannon Beetle Larva • Beady Long Legs • Breadbug • Bulbmin • Bulborb Larva • Bumbling Snitchbug • Burrowing Snagret • Careening Dirigibug • Caustic Dweevil • Cloaking Burrow-nit • Creeping Chrysanthemum • Decorated Cannon Beetle Larva • Doodlebug • Dwarf Bulbear • Dwarf Orange Bulborb • Dwarf Red Bulborb • Emperor Bulblax • Empress Bulblax • Female Sheargrub • Fiery Blowhog • Fiery Bulblax • Fiery Dweevil • Gatling Groink • Giant Breadbug • Greater Spotted Jellyfloat • Hairy Bulborb • Hermit Crawmad • Honeywisp • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Iridescent Glint Beetle • Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat • Male Sheargrub • Mamuta • Man-at-Legs • Mitite • Munge Dweevil • Orange Bulborb • Pileated Snagret • Puffy Blowhog • Raging Long Legs • Ranging Bloyster • Ravenous Whiskerpillar • Red Bulborb • Segmented Crawbster • Shearwig • Skitter Leaf • Snow Bulborb • Spotty Bulbear • Swooping Snitchbug • Titan Dweevil • Toady Bloyster • Ujadani • Unmarked Spectralid • Volatile Dweevil • Water Dumple • Waterwraith • Watery Blowhog • Withering Blowhog • Wogpole • Wollywog • Yellow Wollywog
Pikmin 3 and Pikmin 3 Deluxe (list)	Arachnode • Arctic Cannon Larva • Armored Cannon Larva • Armored Mawdad • Baldy Long Legs • Bearded Amprat • Bug-Eyed Crawmad • Bulborb • Burrowing Snagret • Calcified Crushblat • Desiccated Skitter Leaf • Dwarf Bulbear • Dwarf Bulborb • Dwarf Orange Bulborb • Female Sheargrub • Fiery Blowhog • Flighty Joustmite • Hermit Crawmad • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Joustmite • Male Sheargrub • Medusal Slurker • Mysterious Life-Form • Nectarous Dandelfly • Orange Bulborb • Peckish Aristocrab • Phosbat • Plasm Wraith • Puckering Blinnow • Puffy Blowhog • Pyroclasmic Slooch • Quaggled Mireclops • Red Spectralid • Sandbelching Meerslug • Scornet • Scornet Maestro • Shaggy Long Legs • Shearwig • Skeeterskate • Skitter Leaf • Skutterchuck • Spotty Bulbear • Sputtlefish • Swarming Sheargrub • Swooping Snitchbug • Toady Bloyster • Vehemoth Phosbat • Waddlepus • Water Dumple • Watery Blowhog • Whiptongue Bulborb • White Spectralid • Wogpole • Yellow Spectralid • Yellow Wollywog
Pikmin 4 (list)	Albino Dwarf Bulborb • Ancient Sirehound • Anode Beetle • Anode Dweevil • Arachnode • Arctic Cannon Beetle • Arctic Cannon Larva • Aristocrab Offspring • Armored Cannon Larva • Baldy Long Legs • Bearded Amprat • Blizzarding Blowhog • Bloomcap Bloyster • Bogswallow • Breadbug • Bug-Eyed Crawmad • Bulborb • Bulborb Larva • Burrowing Snagret • Chillyhop • Creeping Chrysanthemum • Crusted Rumpup • Desiccated Skitter Leaf • Doodlebug • Downy Snagret • Dwarf Bulbear • Dwarf Bulborb • Dwarf Frosty Bulborb • Dwarf Orange Bulborb • Emperor Bulblax • Empress Bulblax • Female Sheargrub • Fiery Blowhog • Fiery Bulblax • Fiery Dweevil • Flighty Joustmite • Foolix • Freezecake • Frosty Bulborb • Giant Breadbug • Gildemander • Gildemandwee • Greater Jellyfloat • Groovy Long Legs • Grubchucker • Hermit Crawmad • Honeywisp • Horned Cannon Beetle • Hydro Dweevil • Iceblown Dweevil • Icy Blowhog • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Iridescent Glint Beetle • Joustmite • Jumbo Bulborb • Lesser Jellyfloat • Male Sheargrub • Mama Sheargrub • Mammoth Snootwhacker • Mamuta • Man-at-Legs • Masterhop • Miniature Snootwhacker • Mitite • Moldy Dwarf Bulborb • Moldy Slooch • Muckerskate • Orange Bulborb • Pearly Clamclamp • Peckish Aristocrab • Porquillion • Pricklepuff • Puckering Blinnow • Puffstool • Puffy Blowhog • Pyroclasmic Slooch • Red Spectralid • Scorchcake • Shearflea • Shearwig • Shockcake • Skeeterskate • Skitter Leaf • Smoky Progg • Snowfake Fluttertail • Snowy Blowhog • Sovereign Bulblax • Spotty Bulbear • Startle Spore • Sunsquish • Swooping Snitchbug • Titan Blowhog • Toady Bloyster • Toxstool • Tusked Blowhog • Venom Dweevil • Waddlepus • Waddlequaff • Water Dumple • Waterwraith • Watery Blowhog • Whiptongue Bulborb • White Spectralid • Withering Blowhog • Wollyhop • Wolpole • Yellow Spectralid • Yellow Wollyhop
Hey! Pikmin (list)	Adult Centipare • Armurk • Berserk Leech Hydroe • Blubbug • Bulborb • Centipare • Clicking Slurker • Coppeller • Crammed Wraith • Crested Mockiwi • Crumbug • Crystalline Crushblat • Dwarf Fiery Bulblax • Electric Cottonade • Electric Spectralid • Electripede • Elongated Mockiwi • Emperor Bulblax • Eye-Stalker Bulbeel • Female Shooting Spiner • Fiery Blowhog • Fiery Blowlet • Fireflap Bulborb • Fireflinger Groink • Firesnout Beetle Larva • Flatterchuck • Flying Spotted Jellyfloat • Foraging Cottonade • Grabbit • Large Splurchin • Leech Hydroe • Long Water Dumple • Luring Slurker • Male Sheargrub • Male Shooting Spiner • Mockiwi • Muggonfly • Puckering Blinnow • Puffstalk • Puffy Blubbug • Queen Shearwig • Red Bubblimp • Seedbagger • Shearblug • Shearwig • Skutterchuck • Sparrowhead • Speargrub • Spiny Coppeller • Sporegrub • Spornet • Starnacle • Stony Flint Beetle • Stuffed Bellbloom • Swooping Snitchbug • Widemouthed Anode Beetle • Yellow Wollywog • Young Fiery Wollywog • Young Yellow Wollywog
Pikmin Adventure (list)	Bilious Bulbot • Bombardier Beeb • Emperor Bulbot • Emperor Pinchipede • Greater Bladed Beeb • Greater Bulbot • Greater Studded Beeb • Green Bulbot • King Beeb • Large-Mouth Wollywog • Monochromatic Pinchipede • Needlesnout Blowhog • Red Bulbot • Telescoping Pumphog • Translucent Wollywog • Worker Beeb • Yellow Bulbot
Cut and unused	Barbed Mockiwi • Blue Bulborb • Bubble-Blowing Blowhog • Carnation Bulborb • Ceramic Joustmite • Crystal Wollyhop • Dangling Splurchin • Dwarf Blue Bulborb • Dwarf Yellow Bulborb • Fleeting Splurchin • Flighty Piddlepoddler • Floataswine • Flytrap Chrysanthemum • Frosthop Blowhog • Humped Bloyster • Jamboree Blowhog • Kakureimo • Nubby Bulborb • Painted Whiskerpillar • Peacap Puffstalk • Peeper • Plump Sheargrub • Red-Eye Flapper • Rocky Wraith • Sandy Speargrub • Satchel Snitchbug • Spouting Bellbloom • Stamping Long Legs • Stubborn Bulblon • Titan Cottonade • Tropical Blinnow • Whiptongue Mockiwi • Winter Spornet • Yellow Bulborb
Mentioned	Burrowing Snarrow • Pond Skater • Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle • Vanilla Breadbug