Mushrooms, or spxam, are the fruiting head of a fungus. They grow across Pandora and are used by the Na’vi in many ways, primarily as food but also as medicine.
Octoshroom, or torukspxam, roots are boiled to make antivenom tea. Too much tea, however, has proven to be toxic and sometimes lethal.
The symbiotic, pale-pink fungus coating on puffers , or hìrumwll, is quite delicious and is used by the Na’vi for food. They are careful not to harvest too much from one plant in order to avoid destroying the equilibrium between plant and fungus required to maintain the health of both.
The speckled mushroom, or puwupspxam, is harvested for use in cooking. Their stringy flesh is known to have a sweet, mellow flavor when fermented over several months and softened enough to chew.
The Kame’tire harvest the delicate fruiting stems of radar mushrooms, or pxey’awspxam, for food and healing remedies.
Blue or turquoise in color, the sage mushroom is tasty, meat-textured, and highly prized by the Na’vi of the Western Frontier. The Kame’tire make a kind of medicinal and nutritious stew called kxan’epe with sage mushrooms and stagfly ant nectar. The banquet mushroom of the region’s Clouded Forest is a savory mushroom said to be so nutritious it could fill a small family. Also found on the Western Frontier are the vineshrooms found growing on the undersides of floating mountains, which have a watery consistency and are typically dried before cooking, and crimson mushrooms.