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it's true. source: am horticulturalist. vegetable is a culinary distinction, not a botanical one.
vegetative growth, fruiting bodies are biological features.
I work in "specialty crops" which includes mushrooms, but in The Academy for agriculture, the mycologists are rare and generally in plant/animal pathology departments identifying diseases and forestry departments just being weird.