Fungi. Remarkably, these spores of design are more related to animals (therefore us) than plants!

Rather than photosynthesising, like animals, fungi are heterotrophs – that is to say, they cannot produce their own nourishment and absorb/take it from elsewhere.

To be fair, the genetic relationship began a few years ago (about a billion) – but we share about 50% of our DNA!

We use them as food, medicine and all kind of alternative commercial products like fake leather and packaging. Pretty interesting.

Whilst on a holiday break forest bathing, we stopped and looked around. Lighting was not great, but we quickly found three types right next to the track. Might warrant a macro lens in the future!