Quick Search of DRB:
Lijit Search
drb rss about
suggest
advertise
subscribe
rss rss
rss

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Not Your Ordinary Plants


"QUANTUM SHOT" #200


The 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...

Flowers & Plants For Your Garden
Get Better Pictures


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:



"StumbleUpon" this page

Permanent Link...
Category: Nature,Funny pics

Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks:


READ LATEST POSTS:


Flags of Forgotten Countries

Don't just wave a black flag... consider your options

Biscotti Bits
Mixed Links & Images

incl. "Post-it Love"

Most recent DRB-SF site update
Fall in Love with SF Again!

Two of the most entertaining SF novels from the 1980s
(for other weekly "Biscotti" issues - see our main page and monthly archives)

COMMENTS:

8 Comments:

Blogger Ilja said...

The mystery flower look very much like a lamprey to me.

___  
Blogger Dazegoonboy said...

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".

___  
Blogger Jam Master Ghislaine said...

Beaten to it! That 'mystery flower' is certainly a jawless fish. As the previous posters said, it is likely a lamprey.

___  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As stated by the others, that 'mystery flower' is not a flower at all. It is most definitely a lamprey.

___  
Anonymous KuroNeko said...

Feed me Seymour!

___  
Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thank you all for the info!
This is why I like internet so much.

___  
Blogger Marcelle said...

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.

___  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great pix!

I think Kalanchoe Daigremontiana looks like the comic strip "Maxine".

___  

Post a Comment

<< Home


SF ART & BOOK REVIEWS:
Don't miss: The Ultimate Guide to SF&F Writers!
Fiction Reviews: Alastair Reynolds "Chasm City"
Short Fiction Reviews: Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" (with pics)
New Fiction Reviews: The Surreal Office

MORE RECENT POSTS:


Spectacular Steampunk Art Update

Part 2 of this eye-popping, mind-boggling series


Anything for the Perfect Shot! - Part 3

Photographers can be crazy, with a good reason


Charmed by the Unknown Brazil

Incredibly colorful festival Boi-Bumba! and more


Ekranoplans Showcase, Part 2

Mind-boggling, unique concepts


Riot Vehicle with Water Cannon (used in Colombia)

A detailed look at the newest SWAT truck


Thrilling Vintage Movie Posters

Spewed from Intergalactic Space!..


Cheers to Beers!

A selection of world's beers that simply boggle the mind


World's Most Interesting Bridges, Part 3

Awe-inspiring Construction of Mountain Bridges in China, and more


Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures

Living independent from their creators?


Real Life Spy Gadgets - For the secret agent in all of us

Ignorance is bliss... no more


Cable Blues: Tangled & Crazy Wiring

Second Law of Thermodynamics Wins


Underground Cities and Bunkers: Living Down Below

Deep calls to deep...


Extraordinary Clocks and Watches

"Time does not exist. Clocks exist."


The Pasta Monster (and Other Strange Food Art)

Don't stare at your food, or it will stare back


How Morgan Cars Are Made: By Hand, Out of Wood

Doing what they do best, refusing to change...


Abandoned Boeing 747 Restaurant
(& Other Plane Conversions)


A plane with unique history, haunted by kitchen smells


Surprised Astronauts
(Funny Pics)


"My God, it's full of stars!"


One-Track Wonders: Early Monorails

Past, Present and Retro-future


Komodo Dragons: They Eat Meat

Marauding Dragons on a Desolate Island


Spring Cleaning of the Mind: Surreal Art Update

Visual kick included


People Are Strange (Crazy Faces, Part 5)

Throw the switch, Igor!..


Wonder Weapons of World War Two

Made in Germany, 1940-1945


Narrow Buildings in Japan and Around the World

Skinny living can be... fascinating


The Cutting Edge of Retro Tech

They will be renaming HiFi to HyFy, starting April 1st


Bladerunner Tokyo (in Large-Format Photography)

The future began a long time ago in Tokyo...


Nightmare Playgrounds, Part 3

More entertaining than creepy? I'd say both


Victorian Flea Circuses: A Lost Art Form

Death-defying acts of flea heroism!


Strangest Music Scores, Part 2

It's a mad, mad, mad music!


Monstrous Aviation, Part 2: Huge Helicopters!

"Let's see how insanely huge we can make them!"

MORE OF THE RECENT POSTS:








Sculptural Weirdness
One-in-a-Million Collisions
Walls of Death
Apocalyptic Experiments
Cosmic Motors
Train Wrecks!
Phantasmagorical Art
Abandoned Substations
Mysterious Mima Mounds
Strange Theme Parks
Architecture of the Third Reich
Three Dimensional Fractals
Medieval Armor
Crazy Covered Cars
Painted Castles
Chrome-Delicious Robot Art
Awesome Octopi
Weirdest Accidents, Part 5
Architectural Horrors (Series)
Huggable Primates
Most Powerful Supercomputers
Curious Ephemera, Part 2
You Used It For WHAT??
Steam-Powered Tractors
Abandoned Amusement Parks
New Horrors in Construction
What Kids Wish For
Weird "Walking" Frogfish
- many more in the Archives and in the Contents Index (left bar)


FULL ARCHIVES (with previews, fast loading):

May 2009 -- April 2009 -- March 2009 --
February 2009 -- January 2009 -- December 2008 --
November 2008 -- October 2008 -- September 2008
August 2008 -- July 2008 -- June 2008
May 2008 -- April 2008 -- March 2008
February 2008 -- January 2008 -- Dec, 2007
November 2007 -- October 2007 -- Sept, 2007
August 2007 -- July 2007 -- June 2007
May 2007 -- April 2007 -- March 2007
February 2007 -- January 2007 -- Dec, 2006
November 2006 -- October 2006 -- Link Lattes




CATEGORIES:
airplanes | animals | architecture | art | auto | boats | books | cool ads | funny pics | famous | futurism | food
gadgets | health | history | humour | japan | internet | link latte | military | music | nature | photo | russia | steampunk
sci-fi & fantasy | signs | space | sports | technology | trains | travel | vintage | weird






Airplanes
Animals
Architecture
Art
Auto
Boats
Computers
Cool Ads
Extreme Weather
Food
Funny Pics
Futurism
Gadgets
History
Humour
Link Latte
Military
Music
Nature
Oops Accidents
Photography
Robots
Science
Science Fiction

Space
Sports
Technology
Trains
Travel
UE Abandoned
Vintage
Weird

Play DRB Games!





Avi Abrams
Rachel Abrams
M. Christian
James Golbey
Simon Rose
Paul Schilperoord
Scott Seegert
Constantine vonHoffman
Steve Levenstein

- Join Our Team -
Guidelines






  • Beautiful :)
    Read more

  • What about this sign? Where am I supposed to go between 6am and 9am?
    Read more

  • Actually, the "Unique" poster is not actually a despair.com product, as far as I know.

    I believe this is the original: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23149690/
    Read more

  • The blue crocodile warning sign is from the Australia Zoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Zoo), of Steve Irwin fame, near Beerwah, Queensland. I have a very similar shot myself. R.I.P. Steve.
    Read more

  • I think that first mystery sign means that a burglar is lying in wait, and to be prepared or safe or something....
    Read more

  • About the "Man at Work" poster in Bratislava: in the centre of the Bratislava there are several bronze statues which are placed where people would normally be doing stuff that people normally do: one of them is standing in the corner of two streets, one of them is sitting at an actual park bench reading a paper, etc. The picture in the sign depicts one of those statues, a worker peeping out of a real man hole in the street, so the sign is obviously meant to be humourous.
    Read more

  • Great pictures / Fotos. I posted some on my blog. I hope this is okay for you. If not, just let me know pls. Great site,nice stuff, strong writting, here. rgds Chris
    Read more

  • "F/A-18F Super Hornet completes a super-sonic flyby:"

    To me it seems to be the F-14?

    At least definately no Super-Hornet.
    Read more

  • Hello.
    First of all, your blog is very good.

    It´s not a F-18 super hornet. It´s a F-14 (wacth the rest of the photos, the diference is noticeable), and there is an aditional reason for the vapor contrail: at certain altitude there are air zones of very low temperature (-X ºC), so the condensation is another reason.
    Read more

  • Hey guys, thank you for correction! .. Sharp eye!
    Read more

  • Actually the disk shape and most of the other photos; these weird clouds occur when the aircraft is moving at transonic speed- these are from about Mach 0.8 to Mach 1.2, and I suspect that none of these aircraft are actually going faster than mach 1.0 in fact for practical reasons. (The shapes are caused where the *air* is *temporarily* forced to speed up past the aircraft to supersonic speeds, but since the aircraft is moving below the speed of sound, no sonic boom reaches the ground.)

    Also the bit about the throttle is a bit misleading, it's the speed of the aircraft that determines where the disk forms (of course the pilot adjusts that using the throttle, but there's a lag since it takes time to accelerate...)

    Hope this helps.
    Read more

  • great info, thanks!
    Read more

  • Contrails have nothing to do with vortices from the wing tips. They are formed from the water vapor in the engine exhaust. If it were from the wingtips, all planes would produce the same number of contrails. Coincidentally, it is always the same as the number of engines.
    Read more

  • Avi, your link in the first paragraph is a broken link. I love the photos I was able to see though. :P
    Read more

  • The girl in the red shirt has the most rediculously photoshopped boobs ever.

    I vote for the first pic, #1. Everybody in that picture is making a horrible face and it's brilliant.
    Read more

  • Voting for #1; even if its posed, it doesn't look like it, the rest all look posed.
    Read more

  • Yeah, vote down the photoshop jobs. Anyone can make an ugly face with the liquefy tool, e.g. that last girl with the eyebrows up.
    Read more

  • My vote goes to #1. I sat here for a minute wondering who the true "subject" of this picture is, not that it matters! This one doesn't appear to be staged and doesn't look like a picture someone had taken simply to win this contest. :)
    Read more

  • #1, agreed.
    Read more

  • #1 - everybody is fooooooogly
    Read more

  • Number 1...it was the first one, but the others didn't make me laugh nearly as much...though the Japanese? girl with her face smushed up against the window thing was quite funny.
    Read more

  • #1. Without a doubt.

    It looks like a zombie dance party.

    You know... without all the ooze.
    Read more

  • Has to be #1 with #11 a close second. The rest look too posed or manipulated.
    Read more

  • totally #1! that wasn't scripted. It's brilliant
    Read more

  • #14's arms are so damn hairy!!
    Read more

  • I like #49, Mr. Bean's face juxtaposed with the sloth!
    There are more cool animal faces on National Geographic's Your Shot, a gallery of photos submitted recently by readers. I especially like the yawning cheetahs:
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/yourshot/animal-gallery.html
    Read more

  • yeah #12's rack is out of this world. must be fake. #1 wins easily due to the fact that everyone looks horrible without trying
    Read more

  • I like the rules but not the response. :)
    Read more

  • ahahaha.

    you'll hear from the feminists.

    who came up with extreme ironing?!
    Read more

  • The "funny" here hinges completely on the readers ability to identify with 13 year old boys.
    Read more

  • The extreme ironing is crazy! The rhino is creepy, and the list is cool.
    Read more

  • Hmm, I guess it's true that some guys have unrealistic expectations from a relationship. Your SO is supposed to be physically attractive, accept your interests, suppress her emotions, and play second fiddle to your TV. Meanwhile, you get to be a fatass who just doesn't give a shit about her hobbies, self esteem or thoughts. Puh-leeze. These lists aren't funny, and anyone who thinks they are is just sending out a strong signal to the world about how self-centered they are.

    Here's a protip, in case you didn't pick up on it. If you don't want to have to read her mind, don't bitch when she expresses her emotions. I'm surprised you feel you need space- most women I know have enough respect that they wouldn't touch someone like you with a ten-foot-pole.
    Read more

  • I know its supposed to be something funny but in actuality its pretty much true & that's not funny, its disturbing, its not right, its... many things, too many to say.
    Men are from Mars, Woman are from Venus, if women were like men then the world would be full of pigs (dogs, scum, a-holes... whatever you want to call them)
    Why is it, if women acted as men do they would be considered whores? How come men don't know its wrong to lie when they cheat? Or just because their not actually caught in the act, they think they haven't done anything wrong? Why do men lie about what they do? If you know its wrong then don't do it. If you know you f..ked up, then be a real man & admit to it.
    Have you ever thought if you actually treated someone with respect then maybe you would get it right back? If you have & you still don't get it then that person isn't worth it or the real attraction isn't there, your just settling for something.
    Attraction is one thing, but to be attracted & fall in love... True love is hard to find but you can't LOOK for it, I believe in time & at the right time it will COME to you.
    In the mean time don't expect a miracle, just remember, to keep what you have, realize they are who they are, that's why you are w/ them. If you expected something else then you shouldn't be with them. All men lie. They have their reasons. All women bitch, we have our reasons, too. Men are the #1 reason.
    Read more

  • So according too these comments of the women, guys are imperfect and women can't do anything wrong?
    Hmmmm......
    Read more

  • Photographic proof that men CAN do housework! Loving it.
    Read more

  • HOLA!!!
    wasup ??
    just saw ur blog find it really kool,it really rocks man hey i've got this really kool!!nd krazyy kinda website check out the link below
    http://www.bigadda.com/Boss/quiz.php?type=web&uid=323

    it rockzzz.....

    cheerrzzz..!!!!
    Read more

  • You have a great blog. Can you also share links to your article on http://www.bestofindya.com
    Read more

  • Looking at these monsters, does anyone think "Wow, Thunderbirds are go!"
    Read more

  • i think the rotating tower idea is slightly insane and extremely dangerous, but if they pull it off, it will be a masterpiece of architecture
    Read more

  • The Rem Koolhas "Death Star" is not proposed to be built in Dubai, but in another Emirate, Ras Al Khaimah.
    Read more

  • it is amazing
    Saving Endangered species is Fred Smilek passion in life, if it is your passion educate yourself as well. http://www.fredjsmilek.com
    Read more


Send us your topic ideas, site suggestions, rants or sweet unpublished poetry. We love to hear from you.



Misc.:
Data Recovery
File Recovery
The Weight Loss Forum
Online Forex
Online Backgammon
Maritime news










Blu