Not Your Ordinary Plants
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 "QUANTUM SHOT" #200The Cutest... Vegetable China is home to some very interesting hot peppers. This one should be put up on eBay - it might even get more money than the "Jesus Toast". (Source: Sina News Agency, via)     I'd post more images of it's short happy life: frolicking in the sun, growing to full maturity... eating the owner for breakfast... but sadly, I do not have enough information :) However, here is a... vegetable Mickey Mouse:  and a carrot gentleman:  ---------------- Some other creatures perhaps masquerading as plants? This "flower" is just too smug looking:  (Image courtesy Betty Blan) "Euphorbia esculenta" flower has a face:  (image credit: Fernando Arias) Kalanchoe Daigremontiana looks like some kind of Martian lobster:  (image credit: Fernando Arias) More after the jump... 
Martin Heigan took a great picture of Stapelia flavopurpurea flower (with its out-worldly crop of "tentacles"):  (image credit: Martin Heigan) Passiflora Caerulea flower, equipped with its own "parabolic antenna":   (images credit: Leonardo Garrido) Tree... walking?  I also happen to have the following proof of aliens residing on Earth: Mystery "flower"  Perhaps we can find out what this thing is. UPDATE Apparently this is not a flower or a plant, but the amazing Lamprey. A "jawless fish with a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. Although they are often not considered to be true fish because of their vastly different morphology and physiology." (thanks Ilja) (Source: David Attenborough's "Life on Earth") Still, better watch what you're eating. Not every plant is what it seems:  Permanent Link...  Category: Nature,Funny pics Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks: |
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The mystery flower look very much like a lamprey to me.
ot only is it a Lamprey, but I can tell you that photo came from the accompanying book to the David Attenborough documentary "Life on Earth".
Beaten to it! That 'mystery flower' is certainly a jawless fish. As the previous posters said, it is likely a lamprey.
As stated by the others, that 'mystery flower' is not a flower at all. It is most definitely a lamprey.
Feed me Seymour!
Thank you all for the info!
This is why I like internet so much.
For all the Kubrick (and IPhone) buffs out there:
A new spoof video making use of 2001: A Space Odyssey recently came out, and there's a mild amount of interest in the site itself: myiphonerevolution.com.
The video spoof itself is fun, but it would appear that there's an even more compelling reason to chec k the site out...
The guys who made the site are now calling for a contest for people to make their own viral videos!
I can't wait to see what people can come up with.
Great pix!
I think Kalanchoe Daigremontiana looks like the comic strip "Maxine".
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