Talingelinga/en

Fungi are in biology one of the 4 kingdoms of multi-celled based life. It is difficult to define exactly which organisms are fungi, as they are and are neither plants nor animals. For example:
animallike properties: they eat, but digest (have digested) their food outside their body
plantlike properties: they propagate with spores; their cellwands are hard, but made of chitine rather than cellulose
nonlike properties: they do not have a compact body, but grow threadlike shapes, (mycelium).

The kingdom of celled living creatures
fungi (Latin: fungi)
animals (animalia)
plants (plantae)
'other' organisms, most single cell (protista)
Other organisms without distinct cells: bacteria, viruses, and so forth.

Fungi occuring in Tonga are the lichens and mushrooms.