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[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 26 points 2 months ago

Fungi only got its own kingdom in 1969, before that they were a phylum in Plantae. There are tons of people still around who learned "mushrooms are plants" in school, so it's not surprising downstream vocabulary hasn't caught up.

[-] Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Idk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Fair point haha.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

They have properties from plants but also from animals, it's an independent evolution from both.

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