They have properties from plants but also from animals, it’s an independent evolution from both.
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the_artic_one@programming.dev 5 days 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.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Idk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.
the_artic_one@programming.dev 4 days ago
Fair point haha.