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minus-squarethe_artic_one@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 days agoFungi 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.
minus-squareZerush@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoThey have properties from plants but also from animals, it’s an independent evolution from both.
minus-squareUnbecredible@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days agoIdk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.
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.
They have properties from plants but also from animals, it’s an independent evolution from both.
Idk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.
Fair point haha.