Um, ackshully, mushrooms are vegetables!
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or that mushrooms aren’t plants.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 10 months ago
Then why is the mushroom (that we see) called the fruiting body?
It’s obviously a fruit.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because eating them turns frogs gay.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 10 months ago
keep your crockpot ideas out of my biology forum
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Mushroom = sex organ of alien invaders
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Me when I’m eating that fungussy
mosspiglet@discuss.online 10 months ago
mutters to self don’t take the bait
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Chill, he’s just being a fun guy!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you’re serious, I think you’re mistaken who’s making the statement. I’ve had conversations with humanity majors who made comments about mushrooms being plants despite the obvious fact that they don’t photosynthesize. Never mind that they breath oxygen in and release co2.
the_artic_one@programming.dev 10 months ago
Mushrooms were plants until the 70s, maybe they just had outdated textbooks in school.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe. He’s old enough, but he also get a lot of his “science” from old scifi novels.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Some plants don’t photosynthesis either (e.g. Orobanchaceae). Its not the photosynthesis that makes the plant