Botanical Wednesday: It reminds me of something, I’m not sure what

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   JDStackpole

   10 November 2011 at 1:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I though you said you weren’t going to “do” any porn.

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   Sally Strange, OM

   10 November 2011 at 1:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Dang! Line stolen.

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   Glen Davidson

   10 November 2011 at 1:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Inception! Sexual structures appearing like, um, sexual structures.

   Now just what do you suppose the Designer is telling me?

   Glen Davidson

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   Atheist Aaron

   10 November 2011 at 1:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   He didn’t say anything about producing it though.

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   Tethys

   10 November 2011 at 1:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   What an unusual flower. Some Aroids have a most unusual trait. They can produce heat! From wiki:
   

   Many plants in this family are thermogenic (heat-producing). Their flowers can reach up to 45 degrees Celsius even when the surrounding air temperature is much lower. One reason for this unusually high temperature is to attract insects (usually beetles) to pollinate the plant, rewarding the beetles with heat energy.

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   Weed Monkey

   10 November 2011 at 2:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   A cayenne-like C.Annuum, albeit of an especially beautiful dark colour, wrapped in some decorative but no doubt scrumptious leafy vegetable. I’d dip that in some tzatziki.

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   NC

   10 November 2011 at 2:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   A dippy bird?

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   Lynn Wilhelm

   10 November 2011 at 2:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   There’s a great nursery in NC where you can get Dracunculus vulgaris plants. Plant Delights is owned by Tony Avent, a wonderful plantsman with a rather wry sense of humor. He’s added another common name to this plant: Viagra Lily. Anyway, check out his online catalog for some plant fun (and a little plant porn).

   **I’m subscribing so that someone can help me figure out what I’m doing wrong embedding the link. I tried to put “Plant Delights” in the title between the quotation marks, but the word won’t show up and everything past my tag becomes the link. Very annoying. What am I missing?

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   Physicalist

   10 November 2011 at 2:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It reminds you of Snoop Willis, perhaps?

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    Weed Monkey

    10 November 2011 at 2:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Lynn Wilhelm, the title part only describes what pops up when you hover your mouse cursor over the link, the part that shows up as an actual link goes between the closing > and the </a> that closes the a href -tag.

    Um. I’m thinking of a more complicated way to write that, but can’t think of any. Maybe an example would be better.

    <a href=”http://link.here.com/” title=”hovertext”>This will be the link</a>

    produces

    This will be the link

    And now there must be some hidden typo that makes all this a garbled mess, even if it looks just fine in preview.

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    Lynn Wilhelm

    10 November 2011 at 2:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Thanks Weed Monkey, now I finally understand what the damn word “title” means. Let me try it here again. Click here to see the cover of this year’s catalog. He’s come up with some great covers over the years.

    Perfect! I hope I can remember…

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    Jams

    10 November 2011 at 2:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    HAHAHAHAHA @ “christianmingle.com” ad accompanying this article in my RSS feed.

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    syd

    10 November 2011 at 2:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    georgia o’keeffe, maybe ?

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    air101

    10 November 2011 at 2:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Hmmm…purple carrots?

    Purple Carrots

    :D

    Which reminds me, what do native English speakers use for the plural form of “Anthurium”? “Anthuriums” or “Anthuria”?

    Thanks

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    Josh, Official SpokesGay

    10 November 2011 at 3:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It reminds me of something, I’m not sure what

    Cock ‘n pussy, PZ. That’s what.

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    Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

    10 November 2011 at 3:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Silly me. I read that as “Posted in Orgasms”

    @air101:

    Anthuriums.

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    Ouigui

    10 November 2011 at 4:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    This reminds me that it might be fun to point out to religious prudes that every bouquet of cut flowers is a display of dismembered sexual organs. “What’s the real message of those roses you just bought, huh? Pervert.”

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    magistramarla

    10 November 2011 at 5:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    PZ,
    You are a feisty old scalawag!

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    DLC

    10 November 2011 at 5:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    kind of reminds me of a ceramic bell I saw once. . . /innocent look

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    Weed Monkey

    10 November 2011 at 6:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    kind of reminds me of a ceramic bell I saw once. . . /innocent look

    … if you know what I mean, eh eh. *nudge nudge, wink wink*

    .
    .
    .
    Seriously.

    What’s it like?

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    Holms

    10 November 2011 at 6:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @10
    Muphry’s Law.

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    outrage zombie

    10 November 2011 at 7:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    An especially confusing puberty?

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    Kevin Walter

    10 November 2011 at 10:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Viagra is now called the Disneyland pill because it’s an hour long wait for a sixty second ride.

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    Kevin Walter

    10 November 2011 at 11:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    There is also a female’s version of Viagra it’s called Niagra because it keeps them wet for a week.

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    Father Ogvorbis, OM: Delightfully Machiavellian

    10 November 2011 at 12:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It reminds me of something, I’m not sure what

    Reminds me of a chile pepper. But then, I’m notoriously clueless about some things.

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    ambulocetacean

    10 November 2011 at 1:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    You’ll put someone’s eye out with that thing.

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    Birger Johansson

    10 November 2011 at 1:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It reminds me of the long tongue of the chameleon.
    The plant is camoflaguing itself as a predator to keep herbivores away.

    It also reminds me of the docking probe of Soyuz spacecraft, but I cannot imagine any evolutionary advantage of Soyuz-mimicry.

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    barbara eckstien

    10 November 2011 at 1:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    amorphophallus something. Can’t remember the something,but I always remember the amorphophallus. wonder why that is.

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    Anj

    10 November 2011 at 2:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s in the name. Literally.

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    Tarpon

    10 November 2011 at 3:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Not as much fun as Amorphophallus titanum though…..you look good, and smell like dead meat

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    adrianwhite

    10 November 2011 at 3:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    We have a similar plant here in the uk. Arum maculatum also has a common name of Jack-in-the-Pulpit, I’ll let you all work out the connotations of this!

    ps Long-time lurker, first post.

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    RFW

    10 November 2011 at 3:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Those who live on the Left Coast in dry-summer areas should look into the ever delightful Arum dioscoridis, another aroid. Easy to grow, truly vile looking spathe with dirty lime green and purple-black blotches, and the smell of a compost pile that’s been over-watered and has gone anaerobic. In one word, nasty: nasty looking and nasty smelling.

    Google has lots of images for your delectation.

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    Monado, FCD

    10 November 2011 at 4:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    A marlin spike wrapped in a bat wing?

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    nazani14

    10 November 2011 at 5:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Reminds me of the Disney witch Maleficent, with her wonderful collar.

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    carolw

    10 November 2011 at 7:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I thought I clicked off the porn post…

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    rablerowser

    10 November 2011 at 7:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Reminds me of a member of the Arecaceae…

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    cyberCMDR

    10 November 2011 at 8:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s a pistil packin’ momma!

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    Samantha Vimes, Chalkboard Monitor

    11 November 2011 at 8:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    cyberCMDR, you have won an Internet.

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    jonprice

    12 November 2011 at 12:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Yay!

    Dracunculus. Mine are just starting to open – the back garden should be quite stinky in a day or two. The neighbours have been warned. :-)

    I’m still trying to offload some of the smaller plants onto friends for their own fun, but surprisingly few takers….