Until recently, all classifications of life, including the expansion from two kingdoms to five kingdoms, were based on physical observations of how things looked, even under a microscope. This is how the closeness and relationships between species, genera, classes, orders, and kingdoms were decided. Given this, it comes as no surprise that most people have classified fungi as plants for so long. The similarity in appearance is pretty clear; after all, some look like little red and white trees.
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