Mushrooms

There are two types of mushroom found in the game: Green Mushrooms, and Red Mushrooms.

Green Mushrooms: If you eat (as Yoshi) or run into a Green Mushroom, you will gain an extra life. They are hidden in the painting worlds as well as within the castle itself, and secret levels. Some Green Mushrooms are easy to find because they are found on the ground or in ! boxes, while others only appear after doing a small task. For example, in Bob-omb Battlefield, collecting the 8 coins around a flower patch will summon a Green Mushroom that you must catch before it disappears. Another Green Mushroom is found in the room to Jolly Roger Bay - climbing up to the hole in the wall that does not lead to the Secret Aquarium will summon a Green Mushroom that flies up to you. You can collect as many of these as you like, but the limit for how many lives you can have is 100. If you collect a star from a course or some other levels, you will gain one life for every 50 coins you have collected.

Red Mushrooms: If you eat or run into a Red Mushroom, you will grow huge and can destroy almost anything in your way. You will gain an extra life for each obstacle you destroy, starting from the 8th. Red Mushrooms are hidden in Orange Brick Blocks, and will disappear if not collected after several seconds. Red Mushrooms are much harder to find than Green Mushrooms.

Some obstacles that can be destroyed with a Red Mushroom are: Some locations of Red Mushrooms are:
 * Enemies, including Thwomps, small Whomps, and Bullet Bills
 * Orange brick blocks
 * ? blocks
 * Logs
 * Signs
 * Big arrow signs
 * Cannonballs
 * Yellow rotating platforms
 * Moving stone obstacles in Whomp's Fortress - on the dirt ramp near where you enter the level
 * The large wooden plank near the tower in Whomp's Fortress (running over it and staying there can easily award 100 lives)
 * Bob-omb Battlefield, star #4, #5, #6, #7: Two Red Mushrooms can be found. One is in front of King Bob-Omb's mountain, it is in the second brick block after the tipping bridge. The other is on the mountain itself, in a brick block near a tree and a Goomba.


 * Whomp's Fortress, star #3, #4, #5: A Red Mushoom is found in a brick block near a Thwomp and a ? block.
 * Goomboss Battle: The middle brick block between several small moving platforms contains a Red Mushroom.


 * Tall, Tall Mountain: Ground-Pounding the log that is between the giant moving log, and the cannonballs rolling down the slope gives a Red Mushroom that can be used to destroy the cannonballs.