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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do some flowers, mushrooms, and plants prefer areas with less light to grow? Shouldn't all plants want more energy from the sun?
gpt
Firstly, mushrooms are parts of fungi and do NOT photosynthise. The mushroom is a fruiting body used for reproduction. 

As for plants, sunlight is a double edged sword. It provides the energy to do photosynthesis, but sunlight is bad for plants the same way it can give us sunburn-- the high energy photons damage cells and components and cause injury.

Plants thay prefer low light environments probably evolved to tolerate limited light. As such, they would have less pressure to evolve mechanisms to handle harsher, more direct light that other plants would.