Um, ackshully, mushrooms are vegetables!
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or that mushrooms aren’t plants.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 months ago
Then why is the mushroom (that we see) called the fruiting body?
It’s obviously a fruit.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because eating them turns frogs gay.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 months ago
keep your crockpot ideas out of my biology forum
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Mushroom = sex organ of alien invaders
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Me when I’m eating that fungussy
mosspiglet@discuss.online 2 months ago
mutters to self don’t take the bait
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Chill, he’s just being a fun guy!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
Mushrooms were plants until the 70s, maybe they just had outdated textbooks in school.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe. He’s old enough, but he also get a lot of his “science” from old scifi novels.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Some plants don’t photosynthesis either (e.g. Orobanchaceae). Its not the photosynthesis that makes the plant