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) 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