Super Mushroom

====Mushrooms[edit] ==== UGO described the Super Mushroom as "thequintessential power-up".[4] Mushroom power-ups appear in almost every Super Mario game. The most iconic of these is the SuperMushroom,[4] [5]  similar in appearance to the Amanita muscaria, with an ivory stalk below a most commonly red and white (originally red and orange) spotted cap. Created by chance, Shigeru Miyamotostated in an interview that beta tests of Super Mario Bros. proved Mario too tall, so the development team implemented mushrooms to grow and shrink Mario.[6]

Touching a Super Mushroom increases Mario's size and allows him to break certain blocks. When hit by an enemy, Mario reverts to his smaller size instead of losing a life.[4]  While Mario is already in Super form, most blocks that would contain a Super Mushroom instead offer a more powerful power-up such as the Fire Flower.

The Mini Mushroom is a small blue mushroom, a recurring item in the New Super Mario Bros. series, which shrinks Mario into miniature size, allowing him access areas and pipes that Mario normally cannot reach. Mini Mario also jumps higher, floats midair, bounces off enemies without hurting them, and runs across the surface of water, and can jump as if he was on land. Mario is more vulnerable in this form and loses a life on one hit in miniature form. The Mini Mushroom in New Super Mario Bros. U lets Mario also run up walls.[7]