The Mushrooms are characters featured in the 1932 Silly Symphonies short Flowers and Trees.
Background[]
Physical appearances[]
The mushrooms have an identical appearance coming in various sizes, having a light brown coloration around them with faces located on the tops of their caps - brown eyes, small noses sharing the same color as their bodies, as well as simple drawn mouths located below their noses. Located on the undersides of their caps are brown gills and thin black lines as a common characteristic of most species of fungi.
Role in the short[]
A group of mushrooms is first seen waking up in the morning where they emerge from the ground and grow eyes, noses, and mouths. As the flowers dance together, the mushrooms lean and stretch their caps upside-down together in the form in sync just before the Boy Tree attempts to attract the Lady Tree's attention. Later when the Old Man Tree starts a wildfire across the forest, an owl flies by and alerts the survivors in the forest, causing the mushrooms to submerge underground to avoid the fire, just as the fire continues to spread.
After the fire was extinguished with the Old Man Tree who died and perished into hollow, the mushrooms emerge underground happily, seeing that the fire has stopped, thanks to the birds who pierced through a rain cloud to stop the fire. Later during the wedding between the Boy Tree and the Lady Tree, four more mushrooms are seen dancing rhythmically with three daisies and a conductor tree conducting three robins on his branch as they sing together just before the Boy Tree and Lady Tree get married, causing the forest residents to celebrate their wedding.
Trivia[]
- When the mushrooms emerge from the ground in Flowers and Trees in the opening of the short and when they submerge underground when a fire occurs across the forest, a viewer can see soil jumping out of the ground.
- The only scene where the mushrooms have pupils in their eyes is during the scene where the fire spreads across the forest. Additionally, the only scene where one of the mushrooms have eyebrows is during the scene where they first appear in the short,