Strawberries, blackberries, mulberries, and raspberries are not berries.
Bananas, aubergine (eggplants), oranges and grapes are berries.
Dangleberries aren’t real berries either.
Pretty sure pumpkins are berries.
what are strawberries and blackberries
The true misconception is that there are scientific definitions and culinary definitions. No the culinary definitions don’t fit their scientific category. They’re not intended to.
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.
Leave mycelium alone
No controversy, there is only edible or not edible, no need to make life more complicated as it already is.
Yeah but a mushroom’s such a fungi to be with.
Vegetable isn’t a biological term. While fruit is a biological term, but it’s also a culinary term just like vegetable.
Sea weed isn’t a plant either.
Let’s not forget that apples, strawberries and cashews are pseudofruits, just like the produce of my labor!
When you have a few psychedelic cousin in the family, they let you into any club.
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