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Mystery #3Tier 2fungi / classifying life

A mushroom cannot run and cannot make food from sunlight, so what on Earth is it?

A mushroom can't walk, can't chase anything, and can't chew, so it doesn't seem like an animal. But it isn't green, it has no leaves, and it can't make food out of sunlight, so it isn't really a plant either. So what on Earth is a mushroom?

A red fly agaric mushroom with white spots growing in green moss
Photo: Brian Tomlinson from Milton Keynes, UK · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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