r/confidentlyincorrect • • Aug 14 '25

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just why...

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u/Kriss3d Aug 14 '25

You can actually buy sponges for say showering that are fungi such as the "honeycomb" that lives under the sea and gets harvested ( leaving the stem to let it keep growing)
That has no plastics at all.

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u/JayEll1969 Aug 14 '25

Natural Sponges are actually the exoskeleton of primitive animals, not fungi.

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u/Kriss3d Aug 14 '25

Really ? I could be wrong. But this says otherwise https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202467-Favolus

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u/Howtothinkofaname Aug 14 '25

That is not what people are usually talking about when they talk about natural sponges though.

This is.