Piranha Plant

A Piranha Plant is an enemy in the Mario Series. The enemy is a large plant with a round head and a mouthful of teeth that will pop out of a pipe usually. His first game was in Super Mario Bros. where he would pop out of a pipe, and if Mario was right next to the pipe, he wouldn't come out. Though they are usually in pipes, they sometimes aren't, such as in Super Mario Sunshine where all the Piranha Plants are on ground.

In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, you would have to throw eggs at it's head a certain amount of times until it would die depending on what color it is. Some Piranha Plants can also shoot fire balls out of their mouths, and this type of plant is called a Venus Fire Trap.

In addition to the Mario platformer games, the species have also appeared as obstacles in Mario Sports, such as in the Mario Kart series and Mario Superstar Baseball where they would try to bite you if you got near them.

Types of Piranha Plants

 * Piranha Plant: These go in and out of their pipe to bite nearby plumbers.
 * Wild Piranha Plant: These overgrown Piranha Plants will grow anywhere to snap at nearby plumbers and Yoshis.
 * Venus Fire Trap: These are fire spewing piranha plants.
 * Piranha Giganticus: Just a bigger version of the piranha plant.
 * Ptooie: These run along the ground throwing spiked balls in the air.
 * Jumping Piranha Plant: These piranha plants jump out of their pipe.
 * Wild Ptooie Piranha: These spew out balls and take three hits to kill.
 * Blow Hard: This cactus like plant spews balls like the Ptooie Piranha but is only paralyzed when hit.
 * Hootie the Blue Fish: These fishlike piranha plants reside in sewers and travel forward like spike tops.
 * Bungee Piranha Plant: This purple Piranha Plant will drag down and eat Yoshi when he passes below it.

From Nintendo

Notable Piranha Plants

 * Petey Piranha
 * Naval Piranha
 * Mom Piranha