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"I only recently became aware of the existence of zombies, Like many fungi, I'd just assumed they were fairy tales or movie monsters. This whole experience has been a huge eye-opener for me."
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โ€”Puff-shroom in the original Plants vs. Zombies

For other uses, see Puff-shroom (disambiguation).
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Puff-shroom is a recurring character within the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. Puff-shrooms are usually the first mushroom the player obtains and are quite weak, though they are completely free in return.

As of Plants vs. Zombies 3, Puff-shroom has appeared in five games.

Origins[]

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A purple-spored puffball (Calvatia cyathiformis)

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A violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus)

Puff-shroom may be based on the purple-spored puffball, (Calvatia cyathiformis), a large edible saprobic species of Calvatia; and possibly the violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus), also known as the violet cort, a fungus in the webcap genus Cortinarius native across the Northern Hemisphere.

His name is a combination of the word "puff," which means a short burst of breath or wind, referring to how he puffs little spores as his attack and the suffix "-shroom" referring to how he is a mushroom.

In the French translations, the name Puff-shroom is translated as "Champi-gnon," which is a pun on the words "champignon" (the French term for a mushroom) and "gnon" (a French argot term, meaning the act of punching).

History[]

Plants vs. Zombies[]

Main article: Puff-shroom (PvZ)
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In the original Plants vs. Zombies game, as well as Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West, a Chinese spin-off, Puff-shroom is the first mushroom to be obtained by the player. Being unlocked be beating Level 1-10.

Being introduced at the end of the Day levels, Puff-shroom costs zero sun to help overcome night areas' lack of naturally falling sunlight, allowing the player to have a ready offense while their sun production builds up more slowly than usual.

Puff-shroom attacks by firing spores at zombies ahead of him, these spores deal the same damage as Peashooter's peas, but Puff-shroom can only fire these spores three tiles ahead of him. Being a mushroom, however, Puff-shroom will fall asleep in during daytime levels unless waken up by a Coffee Bean effectively making him 25 sun cheaper than a Peashooter, with his inferior range making him non-preferable.

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He has an aquatic counterpart, Sea-shroom, who is also a free mushroom, but has a much slower recharge due to there being fewer water spaces than ground tiles.

Plants vs. Zombies 2[]

Main article: Puff-shroom (PvZ2)
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Puff-shroom next appears in Plants vs. Zombies 2 where he has been drastically nerfed. He is still a free plant and even can stay awake no matter the world, but now he has a minute long timer before he vanishes. If any Puff-shroom on-screen is fed Plant Food, not only will their timer reset, but they'll also activate the Plant Food of every other Puff-shroom on the screen, resetting their timers as well.

He is a member of the Ail-mint family, who lets him deal an additional 110 damage per spore, an additional 30 damage per spores from his Plant Food ability and last two extra minutes. His Plant Food effect not only unleashes 30 spores ahead of him, but resets his timer and activates the Plant Food effect of other Puff-shrooms on the lawn.

Witch Hazel can naturally transform zombies into more Puff-shrooms until she reaches level 7, where she'll turn them into Fume-shrooms instead.

Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars (China only) (Archived content)[]

Main article: Spray Mushroom line
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Puff-shroom appeared in the Chinese-exclusive turn-based game Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars as the first plant in the Mushroom line, evolving into Scaredy-shroom and then Fume-shroom. He attacked by stretching up and shooting spores at zombies.

His active ability was Spore Spray, which dealt damage to all enemies in their lane. His Soulmates were members of the Sunflower line for a damage boost and members of the Tree line or members of the Clover line and Corn line together for a boost to their critical hit chance.

Plants vs. Zombies Heroes[]

Main article: Puff-Shroom (PvZH)
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Puff-Shroom also appears in the turn-based mobile card game Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, once again costing 0SunPvZH, having 1StrengthPvZH/1HeartPvZH stats and the Team-Up trait, which allows another card to exist in the same lane as him.

Puff-Shroom used to be a Token card only before finally being added as an obtainable card in the Colossal Fossils set. Shroom for Two, Mushroom Grotto and Witch Hazel can all create Puff-Shroom without him being in the deck itself, making him a common mushroom the player will use and see in the game.

Plants vs. Zombies 3[]

Main article: Puff-Shroom (PvZ3)
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Puff-Shroom's most recent appearance is in Plants vs. Zombies 3. Here he works almost identically to his Plants vs. Zombies 2 counterpart, except he damages himself rather than having a natural timer. The player can overcome this by pairing Puff-Shroom with healing plants such as Aloe Vera.

His Plant Food ability is the same as it was in Plants vs. Zombies 2 while his Tacobility lets him fire three spores at a time along with removing his "timer".

Similar to Witch Hazel in the previous game, Fairy Ring Mushroom transforms zombies in a 3x3 area around her into Puff-Shrooms if she's the one who defeated them.

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Trivia[]

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  • Puff-shroom was considered to be added to the ill-fated Facebook exclusive game Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, but he ended up getting scrapped.
    • It is likely that, because Magnet-shroom was reworked into Magnet Plant, it was believed that mushrooms wouldn't be able to work in Adventures' format and instead of letting all mushrooms be awake during the day, they were simply scrapped instead.
  • Puff-shroom has never costed more than 0 sun, being one of the only plants who cost has stayed the same in all their appearances, even counting spin-offs.
  • In the original Plants vs. Zombies game, as well as all Chinese spin-off games based on it, Puff-shrooms are the first mushroom obtained.

See also[]

V ยท E
Recurring characters
Plants
Plants vs.
Zombies
Peashooter ยท Sunflower ยท Cherry Bomb ยท Wall-nut ยท Potato Mine ยท Snow Pea ยท Chomper ยท Repeater ยท Puff-shroom ยท Sun-shroom ยท Fume-shroom ยท Grave Buster ยท Hypno-shroom ยท Scaredy-shroom ยท Ice-shroom ยท Doom-shroom ยท Lily Pad ยท Squash ยท Threepeater ยท Tangle Kelp ยท Jalapeno ยท Spikeweed ยท Torchwood ยท Tall-nut ยท Sea-shroom ยท Plantern ยท Cactus ยท Blover ยท Split Pea ยท Starfruit ยท Pumpkin ยท Magnet-shroom ยท Cabbage-pult ยท Flower Pot ยท Kernel-pult ยท Coffee Bean ยท Garlic ยท Marigold ยท Melon-pult ยท Gatling Pea ยท Twin Sunflower ยท Gloom-shroom ยท Cattail ยท Winter Melon ยท Spikerock ยท Cob Cannon ยท Imitater
Plants vs.
Zombies
Adventures
Fire Peashooter ยท Bamboo Shoot ยท Chilly Pepper ยท Power Flower
Plants vs.
Zombies 2
Bloomerang ยท Bonk Choy ยท Snapdragon ยท Coconut Cannon ยท Chili Bean ยท Lightning Reed ยท Laser Bean ยท Citron ยท E.M.Peach ยท Magnifying Grass ยท Red Stinger ยท Sweet Potato ยท Witch Hazel
Plants vs.
Zombies 2

(Chinese
version)
Carrotillery ยท Dandelion ยท Tactical Cuke
Plants vs.
Zombies
Online
Venus Flytrap ยท Endurian
Plants vs.
Zombies:
Garden
Warfare 2
Rose ยท Kernel Corn
Plants vs.
Zombies
Heroes
Night Cap
Zombies
Plants vs.
Zombies
Browncoat Zombie ยท Flag Zombie ยท Conehead Zombie ยท Buckethead Zombie ยท Newspaper Zombie ยท Screen Door Zombie ยท All-Star ยท Disco Zombie ยท Backup Dancer ยท Ducky Tube Zombie ยท Snorkel Zombie ยท Balloon Zombie ยท Digger Zombie ยท Zombie Yeti ยท Gargantuar ยท Imp ยท Dr. Zomboss
Plants vs.
Zombies:
Great Wall
Edition
Talisman Zombie
Plants vs.
Zombies
Adventures
MC Zom-B
Plants vs.
Zombies 2
Zombie Chicken ยท Zombot Sharktronic Sub
Plants vs.
Zombies:
Garden
Warfare
Foot Soldier ยท Engineer ยท Scientist
Plants vs.
Zombies:
Garden
Warfare 2
Z-Mech ยท Super Brainz ยท Captain Deadbeard
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