• the_artic_one@programming.dev
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    13 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.

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      12 days ago

      They have properties from plants but also from animals, it’s an independent evolution from both.