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I think that it is important to remember that mushrooms are fungus, not plants. They are in a completely different kingdom

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Untrue, I defer explination to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (c) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc:

plant \Plant\, n. [AS. plante, L. planta.] 1. A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

Note: Plants are divided by their structure and methods of reproduction into two series, ph[ae]nogamous or flowering plants, which have true flowers and seeds, and cryptogamous or flowerless plants, which have no flowers, and reproduce by minute one-celled spores. In both series are minute and simple forms and others of great size and complexity. As to their mode of nutrition, plants may be considered as self-supporting and dependent. Self-supporting plants always contain chlorophyll, and subsist on air and moisture and the matter dissolved in moisture, and as a general rule they excrete oxygen, and use the carbonic acid to combine with water and form the material for their tissues. Dependent plants comprise all fungi and many flowering plants of a parasitic or saprophytic nature. As a rule, they have no chlorophyll, and subsist mainly or wholly on matter already organized, thus utilizing carbon compounds already existing, and not excreting oxygen. But there are plants which are partly dependent and partly self-supporting. The movements of climbing plants, of some insectivorous plants, of leaves, stamens, or pistils in certain plants, and the ciliary motion of zo["o]spores, etc., may be considered a kind of voluntary motion.

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"We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

not to split hairs, but I don't think that websters dictionary is a good source on biology. When I took biology, I learned the 5 kingdoms of living organisms. they are:

Monera: (bacteria, blue-green algae)
Protista: (unicellular organisms, protozoa, diatoms)
Fungi: (fungus, molds, mushrooms, lichens)
Plantae: plants
Animalia: animals

check a biology book, not websters

Uhhh...my two cents.