Wallow and Ticona

This ugly baboon-like creature produces a bulbous growth on its body that eventually fall out and begin to grown into a beautiful array of rainbow colored plants. The growth is actually a type of plant which nurtures itself by hurling its spore into the air, directly affecting the Wallow's with their sensitive skin. The spore don't fatally harm their host but do cause deformities and scars. "Beauty and Beast"