Sea-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies 2)

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies, see Sea-shroom (PvZ). For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Sea-Shroom (PvZH).

Sea-shroom is a mushroom plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It functions identically from its first appearance, firing spores in a short range while only being plantable on water. However, Sea-shroom's spores now deal splash damage to nearby zombies and, like with Puff-shroom, will disappear after a short time.

Like Tangle Kelp, if the tide of Big Wave Beach recedes below the tile it is placed on, it will despawn. Unlike the Tangle Kelp however, Sea-shroom has a brief delay before dying due to lack of water.

In the Chinese version, Sea-shroom is tied to Underwater World, being unlocked on Day 1. As such, he is freely plantable in the world. In Underwater World, Sea-shroom is able to be planted over open abyss tiles and when planted on the left half of the lawn will instead face to the left.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Sea-shroom

SUN COST

0

RECHARGE

5

TOUGHNESS

300

DAMAGE

30

DAMAGE SPLASH

15

PLANT FOOD DAMAGE

20

LIFESPAN

60

Ail-mint

Plant Food: Creates a clone of itself, resets the wither timer on all Sea-shroom on the gameboard, then triggers all Sea-shroom to fire a stream of spores.

Fire a short range explosive spore that will damage zombies in a radius, but it will wither away after a short time.

Sea-shroom and Puff-shroom are long distance cousins. No one knows when their family tree diverged, but the family reunions always involve a pool party.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed Plant Food, all Sea-shrooms on screen will fire a short ranged barrage of spores and resetting all of their disappearance timers.

Costumed (China only)

Increases Plant Food damage by 50%.

Ail-mint effect

When boosted by Ail-mint, Sea-shroom will deal 3x damage with his normal direct attack, 2x damage with his Plant Food direct attack, an additional 10 (level 1-2) / 20 (level 3-6) / 30 (level 7-10) damage with its normal splash attack, an additional 10 (level 1-3) / 15 (level 4-8) / 25 (level 9) / 30 (level 10) damage with his Plant Food splash attack, his normal attack range is increased by 2 tiles, and his Plant Food clone amount is increased by 1.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Starting Recharge	Toughness	Damage	PF Damage*	Splash Damage	PF Splash Damage	PF Projectile Count	PF Clone Amount	Lifespan
1	0	0	0	5 seconds	2.5 seconds	300 damage	30 damage	20 damage	15 damage	20 damage	30	1	60 seconds
2	50					350 damage	40 damage	25 damage	20 damage				70 seconds
3	100			4 seconds		425 damage	50 damage	30 damage	25 damage		40	2	75 seconds
4	200				2 seconds	500 damage	60 damage	35 damage	30 damage	30 damage			80 seconds
5	300					575 damage	70 damage	40 damage	35 damage		50		85 seconds
6	400			3 seconds		650 damage	80 damage	45 damage	40 damage			3	90 seconds
7	500				1 second	725 damage	90 damage	50 damage	45 damage		60		95 seconds
8	600					800 damage	100 damage	55 damage	50 damage				100 seconds
9	800			2.5 seconds		875 damage	110 damage	60 damage	55 damage	50 damage	70	4	110 seconds
10	1,000			2 seconds		950 damage	120 damage	70 damage	60 damage	60 damage			120 seconds

*Per spore

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrades (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Survival Enhancement 生存强化	Survival time of Sea-shroom is increased to 90s. 海蘑菇的存活时间增加至90s
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Sea-shroom gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Ultra-Long Standby 超长待机	Survival time of Sea-shroom is increased to 120s. 海蘑菇的存活时间增加至120s
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Sea-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Sea-shroom may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Sea-shroom gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).

Strategies

Because Sea-shroom requires a water/puddle tile to function and still retain Puff-shroom's limited timespan, they have little utility compared to more powerful plants (even with the splash damage factored in). This mostly restricts it to Big Wave Beach, regardless of mode. It can be used to make Snorkel Zombie unsubmerge, and as fodder for Surfer Zombie, Octo Zombie and Fisherman Zombie. It can also be used to stall a Gargantuar if the need arises. Do note that it is not amphibious, so unless supplemented by an Aqua Vine, Sea-shrooms can be easily destroyed during low tides, although it does provide a cheap means to enable Aqua Vine's piercing attacks without having to place it in water.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Sea-shroom
German	Meerespilz
Spanish	Seta marina	"Marine-shroom"
French	Champi-marin
Italian	Marporcino
Brazilian Portuguese	Cogumarinho	Portmanteau of "Cogumelo" and "marinho"
Simplified Chinese	海蘑菇 Hǎi Mógu	lit. "Sea Mushroom"

Trivia

• If Sea-shroom's Plant Food ability is activated just as the tide in Big Wave Beach recedes, all Sea-shrooms on wet sand will continue to be alive.
• Unlike in the first game, Sea-shroom's projectile is no longer colored purple, instead it is colored blue. Additionally, Sea-shroom's projectile also resembles a bubble.
• Unlike in the first game, Sea-shroom's seed packet recharge is significantly faster.
  • However, in the Java version of the first game, it also has a fast recharge.
• Unlike Puff-shroom, Sea-shroom only has one degrade stage when it's about to disappear, and instead of having its cap slowly discoloring, Sea-shroom's entire body becomes transparent as an indication of it about disappearing.
• Not counting Shadow Peashooter and Mega Gatling Pea, whose almanacs used to have Player's House/Modern Day grass background before being switched to the blue background with bright squares, Sea-shroom is the very first plant to be released since Modern Day not to use the blue background with bright squares in its Almanac, instead having Big Wave Beach water background due to the fact it is an aquatic plant.
• It, Scaredy-shroom, and Puff-shroom are only plants that initiate a chain reaction of Plant Food.
  • Coincidentally, they are all returning mushrooms from the first game.
• It and Nightcap are the only plants that made cameo appearances in loading screens before getting added to the game.
  • In Sea-shroom's case, it made a cameo appearance in the 10.5.1. loading screen, can be seen floating on the beach next to Phat Beet.

Specific to Chinese version (China only)

• Sea-shroom being able to face left when planted on the left half of the lawn in Underwater World is a nod to one of its idle animation, where it is seen turning left for a brief moment.
• Following Sea-shroom's addition to the Chinese version, all of Fog plants from the original game have officially returned in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, due to Plantern being only available in the Chinese version.
• Out of all returning mushrooms released during 2023-2024 timeframe, Sea-shroom is the only one to retain its international version appearance in the Chinese version as opposed to Scaredy-shroom and Doom-shroom, who both got redesigned in the Chinese version respectively.

See also

• Puff-shroom

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