Are mushrooms parasitic plants?

Question

Are mushrooms parasitic plants?

Answer 1

No. They are fungi.You won't eat mushrooms if they are parasitic plant.

Answer 2

Mushrooms are saprophytic fungi. The word parasite means the organism which is feeding on living organisms e.g. cuscuta which feeds on the living plant. It does not kill the host but it grows on it.  Saprophytes means the organism which grows on dead plant parts.

Answer 3

no

Answer 4

All mushroom are fungi, which are not plants.  

Most fungi in the world are actually not parasitic and help the environment by consuming debris and recycling nutrients back into the soil.

Answer 5

mushrooms are saprophytic plants.

Answer 6

well, i'm going to be annoying and repeat what everyone said.

mushrooms are a fungis, which attach to where ever there is mositure, heat, and light.

Also, some mushrooms are parasitic. In biology, we saw a few species of mushroom where the spore falls onto the host(in this case, a grasshopper) and uses it's body. Killing the host and making its body a new home. Like rotting wood.

Answer 7

Some mushrooms are parasitic

No mushrooms are plants.

They are fungi.

Answer 8

No, because they are not plants, they are the fruiting body of a fungus. There are thousands of different fungi some of which are parasitic and some of which are not.