@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 11 hours agoI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.message-square51fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1127arrow-down1message-squareI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 11 hours agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Contramuffinlink3•5 hours agoThat sounds scientifically incorrect. Mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to plants. They fundamentally do not resemble plants in any sense of the word, except maybe that they both grow in the ground.
minus-square@elephantiumlinkEnglish1•3 hours ago Mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to plants How? At first blush, this seems absurd. Disclaimer, it’s been a while since middle school biology class where we might have talked about this subject.
That sounds scientifically incorrect. Mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to plants. They fundamentally do not resemble plants in any sense of the word, except maybe that they both grow in the ground.
How? At first blush, this seems absurd.
Disclaimer, it’s been a while since middle school biology class where we might have talked about this subject.