So this means they won’t have to put heads of lettuce in bags at Wal-Mart anymore? Now we can just scan the whole head of lettuce through the self-check-out.
Yep, looks like no barcodes in the salad, except what you accidentally cut up into it. Bummer.
Imagine going on a nature walk and just barcode scanning all the vegetation, and it tells you what you are looking at. Even better, it could help you keep from picking up toadstools instead of mushrooms. Geez, the possibilities are endless. And meaningless, if all they are going to do with it is scan some poor chinese medicine man’s wares to make sure he didn’t accidentally grind up some poor orchid. Damn, it’s 1984 for veggies.
Toadstools and mushrooms are not plants.
DUH! They ain’t animals, and they aint minerals. They are plants. As are other fungi. As is the athlete’s foot between your toes and other places. On the other hand, I have known some people who were definitely plant-like.
You’re trying to create a kind of false dichotomy. Mushrooms are not plants.
What the hell do you think they are then, genius? Are you really that dense, or do you just play it on TV?
How can he be “dense” when he’s right? Plants are organisms in the kingdom Plantae, fungi are organisms in the kingdom Fungi. It’s pretty straightforward.
Apart from general rudeness, you appear to be attempting to apply a non-longer-accepted taxonomy. These days “Animal, Vegetable or Mineral” is a phrase belonging to the game 20 questions, not science.
Originally Linnaeus had three kingdoms in his scheme, namely Plantae, Animalia and an additional group for minerals, which has since been abandoned. Since then various forms have been moved into three new kingdoms - Monera, for prokaryotes, Protista, for protozoans and algae, and Fungi. This scheme is still far from the phylogenetic ideal and the five kingdom view has largely been supplanted in modern taxonomic work by a division into three domains - Bacteria and Archaea, which contain the prokaryotes, and Eukaryota, comprising the remaining forms. This was precipitated by the discovery of the Archaea.
Thank you.
Hey, man, you’re quoting the same song in your sig as I am. Great minds think alike and all that.
Time to start the mushroom-stuffed Austrian pancakes for supper.
I know, right? 
P.S. I suddenly want to eat some mushrooms, too, now.
They are both part of the overall Plant kingdom, are they not, simply subdivisions of same.
I am in my mid 20s. Mushrooms have never been considered plants in my lifetime.
Since you refuse to look it up, let me quote you some from Wikipedia:
A fungus is any eukaryotic organism that is a member of the kingdom Fungi. . . .
Even though traditionally included in many botany curricula and textbooks, fungi are now thought to be more closely related to animals than to plants, and are placed with the animals in the monophyletic group of opisthokonts. [67]
[67] P. Sitte, H. Ziegler, F. Ehrendorfer (1991). Strasburger Lehrbuch der Botanik (Textbook of Botany), 33 ed, Urban & Fischer, 1998.
Note that they say they’re members of the kingdom Fungi, not a phylum of kingdom Plantae, and that they’re believed to be more closely related to animals than plants.
Nope. Two distinct kingdoms: Plantae and Fungi. You can look it up online, y’know.
Plants can make their own food (they are autotrophs). Fungi cannot, and consume living – or formerly living – material (they are heterotrophs). There are other differences, too. In fact, fungi are more similar to animals than to plants, in many important ways.
Afraid Cranberry’s right on this.
(Oops. Chas got there first, but I’ll leave this post up to bolster C-berry’s statement.)
You’re afraid I’m right? 
This last part is what I’ve always found fascinating, that they’re probably closer related to us than they are, to, say, a carrot or an onion.
I knew it was too good to be true. 