Captain-shroom

The Captain-shroom is a mushroom plant which attacks zombies by summoning Puff-shrooms in front of them. When there are zombies onscreen, the Captain-shroom will summon a temporary Puff-shroom approximately three spaces in front of the zombie furthest left, and it can do this on unplantable surfaces. It will summon Sea-shrooms instead if used in Misty Pond.

However, the summoned Puff-shrooms die in a single bite, and only last for five seconds before disappearing naturally. The Captain-shroom will summon a Puff-shroom every five seconds, so provided they don't die, each Captain-shroom will summon one Puff-shroom at a time.

The biggest downside to this is that the Captain-shroom can't summon Puff-shrooms on top of other plants, forcing the Puff-shrooms to be summoned closer to zombies and making it ineffective later in levels. However, it is an excellent early attacker in night-time levels.

Made by Milesprower2. Almanac Joke by Sunfish.

Stats
Most of this info is covered in the Infobox.

Cost: 25 Sun.

Recharge: Slow

Summon Range: Whole screen.

Puff-shroom Attack Range: 3 spaces.

Attack Strength: 1nds.

Special: Summons temporary Puff-shrooms on any surface.

Introduced in: Rainy Forest - Day 15.

Appearance: A slightly larger Puff-shroom with an army helmet and no hole to shoot spores from. It also has a slightly angry expression on its face.

Plant Food
Summons a permanent Puff-shroom in each row, as far left as possible. Not hugely effective, as early on it's usually better to spend plant food on sun producers, and later on the Puff-shrooms will die very fast.

Strategies
The Captain-shroom is designed for use in the Hidden Base stage, which is effectively a night-time stage where you must plant in Flower Pots. Since it can summon Puff-shrooms on any surface, it is a huge help in that stage as you don't need to use early sun on Flower Pots, and can instead spend 25 sun to defend against all the early zombies.

However, due to the plant requiring space to actually summon Puff-shrooms, coupled with the Puff-shrooms only sustaining a bite of damage, it is extremely ineffective later in the level, and should be used only as an early attacker. Once obtained, it can also be considered as an early attacker in other night-time levels, or even potentiall daytime levels, as for only 100 sun you get a plant that can attack zombies anywhere onscreen.

Despite supposedly summoning Puff-shrooms on any surface, it cannot summon them in Dark Volcano's lava row, which is almost completely unplantable.