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Theme
This week’s theme is about thinking up a flower, bush, tree, or whatever other plant you want. The weirder the better :)
Voting process
Everyone can submit their image to this post. At the end of the week all images will be collected and shared in a new voting post wherein people can vote on their favorite image. This will be up for at least 24 hours before a winner is made.
There are no extra points to be earned, OP will decide on a winner in case of a tie.
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged but not required (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- OP will declare winner in case of a tie
- The challenge runs for about a week.
- Down votes will not be counted
- Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post.
Scores
At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins!
The winner gets to pick the next theme. As always, have fun everyone!
Your quote says not a plant.
But it does say it is a vegetable, and a vegetable is part of a plant.
It’s like strawberries, they’re technically nuts but we call them fruit.
That’s syllogism.
Just because it is considered a vegetable in culinary terms, doesn’t make it a plant in biological classification.
Right, and just because it’s a fungi in biological classification doesn’t make it one in culinary terms.
Now I don’t know about your side of the world, here where I am 99% of people are not scientists. We use categories that we interact with daily, which is why mushroom is a plant rather than a niche definition.
In everyday conversation, mushroom is considered to be a vegetable. Even I would call that a vegetable. But I have never heard anyone (in everyday conversation) calling mushroom a plant.
By the way, strawberries are not technically nuts. They are actually considered an aggregate accessory fruit.
Yet a vegetable by definition is either a plant or part of a plant.
We didn’t even know what fungi were a few hundred years ago without microbiology, they were always ‘plants’. Plants are anything that sticks in the ground and grows, or vaguely follows the other socially acceptable combination of features such as leaves, etc.
Culinary categories mix biological types all the time - tomato (a fruit), mushroom (a fungus), seaweed (an algae) - yet all are treated as vegetables in cooking.
You’re falling into a logic trap by using an overly narrow definition of ‘vegetable’. A vegetable is best understood as a plant or plant-like food used in savoury dishes - and that includes mushrooms, even though they’re not biologically plants.
Since ‘vegetable’ is a culinary term, not a scientific one, it’s not valid to reverse that and argue that mushrooms must be plants just because they’re vegetables.