Is a mushroom autotroph or heterotroph?

Answer 1

A mushroom is an heterotroph. Although it is a fungi and fungi are autotrophs, mushrooms receive their energy from disposing of decaying objects.

Answer 2

A mushroom is heterotrophic because it is a decomposer.

Answer 3

Definitely a heterotroph. They cannot make their own food by photosynthesis, so they cannot be autotrophs. They feed off of living or dead plant or animal (or other organism) matter by excreting enzymes that digest the material outside the body of the fungus and then absorb the digested matter through their hyphae.

Answer 4

A mushroom is heterotrophic because it is a decomposer.