Mushroom Block

A Mushroom Block is an item in Super Mario Bros. 2. They are mostly found above ground in castles and World 7. They can be used to defeat some enemies, or stacked up to reach higher areas. They are required to be thrown in order to defeat bosses Tryclyde, Fryguy, and gray and green Birdos. Mushroom Blocks can also be found in most of the red Birdos' battle rooms. Mushroom Blocks replace the masks used in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic.

Different worlds have Mushroom Blocks with slightly different patterns, as follows:

Super Mario Bros. 2

 * Wii Virtual Console manual: "This block can be used as a step or a weapon."

Trivia

 * Due to a glitch, Mushroom Blocks sometimes teleport a few pixels horizontally as they land on the ground after being thrown, usually if they would have otherwise landed in a place a number of pixels not divisible by 16 away from their starting location.