Fungi

Fungi are classified in their own Kingdom. They are neither plant or animal. It is similar to a plant but has no chlorophyll to aid in making their own food. They absorb nutrients from their surroundings for food. Fungi breaks things down and return nutrients to the soil. 


Examples of Fungi:

• Mushrooms
• rusts
• smuts
• truffles
• yeasts
• molds

(http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212089/fungi.htm)

(Mushrooms have the spore bearing fruiting body of a fungus. Like Fungi they are not a plant and cannot undergo photosynthesis. )