Super Mushroom
A Super Mushroom is a red Mushroom that allows whoever eats it to grow to an enormous size.
In relation to Mario Kart, a Super Mushroom is an item that gives you continuous bursts of speed over a time period of around eight seconds. A particular Super Mushroom is known as a Golden Mushroom or Royal Mushroom and can be used over and over.
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Super Mushrooms restore 50 HP to whoever eats one. However, in the game's sequel Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, a Super Mushroom only recovers 40 HP.
In Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door there is a variant known as the Super Shroom, which recovers 10 HP and has a blue cap.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee it allow the player to grow to an incredible size thus making him heavier and harder to knock off. Experiment with them in Huge Melee mode. Use one while playing as Mario, then do his stance. This will make him taller than almost all the levels in the game.
