What are these plants called?

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They look more like a fungus than a plant

Is fungus differentiated from plants? Honest question, not a smartass one.

The four kingdoms of eukaryotes are:

  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Fungi
  • Protists

So, taxonomically, plants are as different from fungi as they are from animals.

Above that is the domains of life:

  • Eukaryotes (all of the above)
  • Bacteria
  • Archaea

Then above that:

  • Cellular life (all of the above)
  • Viruses
  • Viroids
  • Obelisks (Potentially. Just announced last month.)

Wild. Thanks for the terminology. I'm about to go down a Google rabbit hole now.

And then you got yer prions, which are just self-replicating proteins, and not considered living, but worth mentioning because they kinda act like it.

They don't self-replicate. They interact with well-folded versions of the protein. Causing them to unfold and aggregate into plaques.

yeah, so they are similar to viruses in that they cant self-replicate because they need something very specific to attach onto to replicate.

Got any links on obelisks? Can't find anything other than articles on Egyptian sandstone monuments

Yes - they are completely different.

I hope to god they at least are still considered flora?

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