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zingiberales
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Seaweeds aren't even plants...
Huh TIL it's a kind of algae, which in turn is not a part of the plantae kingdom. Neat.
Browsing Eukaryota's wikipedia article is an adventure
I think they are classified in the plant kingdom by most if not all, I was being sloppy with my terms. They are very different from what we think of as plants typically though, seaweed is a colony of single celled organisms more than "a plant"
Wait what. What have I been eating
Seaweed
Seaweed is a type of macroalgae. It's debatable if algae count as plants or not, they are photosynthetic but are in many ways their own weird form of single celled organism