Um, ackshully, mushrooms are vegetables!
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or that mushrooms aren’t plants.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 month ago
Then why is the mushroom (that we see) called the fruiting body?
It’s obviously a fruit.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because eating them turns frogs gay.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 month ago
keep your crockpot ideas out of my biology forum
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Mushroom = sex organ of alien invaders
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Me when I’m eating that fungussy
mosspiglet@discuss.online 1 month ago
mutters to self don’t take the bait
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Chill, he’s just being a fun guy!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Mushrooms were plants until the 70s, maybe they just had outdated textbooks in school.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe. He’s old enough, but he also get a lot of his “science” from old scifi novels.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Some plants don’t photosynthesis either (e.g. Orobanchaceae). Its not the photosynthesis that makes the plant