• @Zacryon@feddit.org
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    418 days ago

    As far as I know there are a lot of fungi that have hundreds or even thousands of mating types, i.e. “sexes”. Fungi are weird.

        • @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          138 days ago

          A baby in a diaper, with no legs, wearing the Japanese flag on a giant turban, a cowardly royal guard, and who is actually an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

          • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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            48 days ago

            an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

            I guess they were referencing a toadstool, like Peach’s original US name? His name in Japanese actually makes sense: Kinopio, a play on the Japanese word for mushroom, “kinoko.”

      • @PolarKraken@programming.dev
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        48 days ago

        'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down

      • OpenStars
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        28 days ago

        As well as, highly ironically, sometimes unnecessary (if you know you know:-P)