Are mushrooms heterotroph or autotroph

Answer 1

Autotrophs are able to sustain themselves without having to digest other organisms or substances from other organisms; they produce their own organic and inorganic materials. An example of an autotroph, would be a plant.

Mushrooms are heterotrophs since they gain their organic material by living on compounds produced from living organisms. Mushrooms tend to be major decomposers in the world; an example of this can be seen with the legendary "fairy rings". Irish tales explain how these "fairy rings" are formed by fairies dancing in the moonlight, and after they are tired, they seat themselves upon the top of the toadstools. The mushrooms themselves, grow in a ring, and what is interesting about this story, is that the grass on the inside of the ring seems to be poor whilst the grass on the outside of the ring is lush.

The explanation for this is regarding to how mushrooms are heterotrophs. They completely deplete the nutrients in the grass on the inside of the circle, as the grass cannot have the chance to obtain nutrients from other sources. However, the grass on the outside of the circle is gaining nutrients from the mushrooms to produce more of their own, so that, for a time, the grass on the outside of the ring benefits, until the mushrooms are close enough to start to absorb nutrients from that area more directly.

Answer 2

Mushrooms are heterotrophs. They cannot make their own food.