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== Literature ==

* Alan Dean Foster's ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''[[Splinter of the Minds Eye]]''. Luke and Princess Leia crossed a lake using the caps of giant mushrooms as kayaks.

* Massive fungi (I don't recall them being specifically mushroom-like, though) show up in H. G. Wells's ''The First Men In The Moon''. Eating them induces euphoria and intoxication.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** A plane known as the Beastlands has groves of giant mushrooms.

** Several of Gary Gygax's early modules had giant mushrooms and other fungi, including D3 ''Vault of the Drow'', EX1 ''Dungeonland'' and T1-4 ''The Temple of Elemental Evil''.

*** Module A3 ''Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords''. The [[PC]]s will encounter an underground lake. Nearby is a forest of large (6–7 feet tall) mushrooms which give off an eerie luminescence.

*** Module A4 ''In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords''. The Mushroom Garden is filled with mushrooms up to 9 feet tall and have trunks as thick as a tree. The Fungus Forest is filled with giant mushrooms and toadstools and huge puffball fungi.

* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]''

** Supplement ''Terror from the Stars'', adventure "The Temple of the Moon". The Fungi from Yuggoth have a giant cave complex beneath the mountains of Peru filled with a disgusting array of giant fungi imported from their home planet.

** A similar level appeared in ''[[Sonic Heroes|Heroes]]'' and ''[[Sonic Rush Series|Rush Adventure]]''. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''Heroes'' when Team Sonic encounters [[Exaggerated Trope|a mushroom the size of a mountain]]:

{{quote|'''Knuckles''': There are large jungle mushrooms on my island, too... but not this huge.}}

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'':

** In general, the various games in the franchise have had levels with huge mushrooms that could be used as platforms in a number of games. Some of them even help Mario and Luigi hop at great heights.

* ''[[Phantasy Star Universe]]: Ambition of the Illuminus'' introduces Habirao Forbidden District on the [[Wutai]] Planet of Neudaiz, a place where mushrooms have grown massive due to a reaction from [[Life Energy|photonic energies]] there.

* [[Star Trek Online]]: Some of the randomly generated planetary surfaces are basically giant mushrooms.

* ''Tass Times in Tonetown,'' an early [[Activision]] game had these in a few sections of the forest maze. Linger too long and the spores could [[Have a Nice Death|suffocate you]]. Of course, if you take a hunk of it, it's used to solve a puzzle later. You can also eat it. If you do, the game tells you that you [[Mushroom Samba|Timothy Leary walks in, laughs at you, and disappears]].

* In ''[[Okami]]'', an early dungeon has some teeny tiny mushrooms. They grow huge enough to jump on when exposed to [[Did Not Do the Research|sunlight]].

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