Mushrooms

The first 9 mushrooms in Plants vs. Zombies 2, in the order that they appear in the Almanac.

A mushroom is a fleshy, spore-bearing, fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The mushrooms' projectiles are spores and fumes.

In Plants vs. Zombies, they are active at Night and sleep during the Day, but can be woken up by having a Coffee Bean planted on them.

Puff-shroom who shoot short ranged spores

Sun-shroom who produce sun, can grow after 2 minutes

Fume-shroom who spray fumes

Hypno-shroom who hypnotize zombies

Scaredy-shroom who shoots long ranged spores, but hide when zombies to close

Ice-shroom who freeze all zombies on screen

Doom-shroom who explodes in a big area, and leaves a crater behind

Sea-shroom who is basically Puff-shroom in water

Magnet-shroom who steals metallic items from zombies

Gloom-shroom who is an upgrade version of Fume-shroom, shoots in 8 directions

In Plants vs. Zombies: Social Edition, there are 2 new premium mushrooms.

Icy Fume-shroom who is basically a Fume-shroom but shoots icy fumes

Fire-shroom who heavenly burns zombies

In Plants vs. Zombies 2, mushrooms do not sleep during the day anymore. Currently, nine of them from Plants vs. Zombies have returned (Sun-shroom, Puff-shroom, Fume-shroom, and Magnet-shroom), Hypno-shroom has became a gem premium plant and Scaredy-shroom, Ice-shroom, Sea-shroom, and Doom-shroom have became seed premium plants. Currently, there are six new mushrooms, including Spore-shroom, obtained in Neon Mixtape Tour, Perfume-shroom, obtained in Jurassic Marsh, Shadow-shroom, obtained in Modern Day, Toadstool, which is a premium, and Puffball, Vamporcini, Nightcap, and Guard-shroom obtained with seed packets.

Sun-shroom now grows to three stages

Puff-shroom now disappears after 60 seconds

Fume-shroom who is introduced to counter Jester Zombie

Magnet-shroom is introduced to counter Zombie King that make Peasants, Conehead, and Buckethead to Knight Zombies

Spore-shroom who fire spores that changes zombies to another Spore-shroom

Perfume-shroom who charms Dinosaurs

Shadow-shroom who poisons zombies that touch it

Toadstool who eat zombies and produce sun

Hypno-shroom became a gemium mushroom

Scaredy-shroom now takes reduced damage while hiding

Ice-shroom now boosts Winter-mint family, and now attack in melee range

Sea-shroom now disappears after 60 seconds

Guard-shroom who spawns mini-shrooms

Doom-shroom now grows to three stages and explodes once damaged

In the Chinese version, there are new mushrooms not in the international version, including Cryo-shroom, Pyro-shroom, Nuclear Earthstar and Tigerstool, which require Puzzle Pieces to unlock, Magic-shroom, which is a monthly special plant, Flat-shroom, a Steam Age plant, and Hat Mushroom, a Fairytale Forest plant.

In Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, mushrooms serve the role of the aggressive fighters for the Kabloom heroes, but also have various uses and there are other mushrooms listed in other classes. New mushrooms include Buff-Shroom, Punish-Shroom, Grow-Shroom, Button Mushroom, and Sportacus.

Related achievements[]

	Good Morning Complete a daytime level by planting mushrooms and Coffee Beans only.

	No Fungus Among Us Complete a Nighttime Level without planting any mushrooms.

Trivia[]

• Mushrooms are not classified as plants in real life. They are classified as fungi, which are in real life closer to animals than plants.
• Fume-shrooms and Magnet-shroom are the only mushrooms that can be upgraded in Plants vs. Zombies, being upgraded to Gloom-shroom and Gold Magnet respectively.
  • Only the Gloom-shroom is a mushroom, while the Gold Magnet is a normal plant.
  • In Plants vs. Zombies: Social Edition, Fume-shroom has another upgrade, being the Icy Fume-shroom.
• Puff-shroom, Sea-shroom and Flat-shroom are currently the only mushrooms that cost no sun.
• Sea-shroom is the only aquatic mushroom.
  • In real life, Psathyrella aquatica is currently the only known mushroom to be observed to grow underwater.
• All the mushrooms appear to stretch when a Coffee Bean is planted on them.
• Spore-shroom and Earthstar Launching Silo are the only lobbed-shot mushrooms.
• Gloom-shroom and Toadstool are the only mushrooms that can only be obtained by purchasing them.
• Mushrooms in the Zen Garden can go in the Day Garden if they have been fully grown, and are emitting light.

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