Botanical Wednesday: Walking? No way

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   Glen Davidson

   1 February 2012 at 8:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   If that’s a walking palm, why are there still strawberry runners?

   Can’t answer that, can you, damned dirty evolutionist?

   Glen Davidson

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   Cuttlefish

   1 February 2012 at 8:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   And, dammit, where is Carl Pilkington’s Mexican Jumping Bean?

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   meg

   1 February 2012 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Did anyone else think Day of the Triffords?

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   A. R

   1 February 2012 at 9:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Socratea exorrhiza, one of the more bizarre members of the Kingdon Plantae (and there are plenty of those).

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   Scarina

   1 February 2012 at 9:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   …Treebeard?

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   Marie the Bookwyrm

   1 February 2012 at 9:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Since I’m currently re-reading LOTR, I have only one response. ENTS!!!!!

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   John-Henry Beck

   1 February 2012 at 9:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I got to see a few of those last year on a trip to Nicaragua. Lots of interesting stuff down there. Strangler Figs, for instance.

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   Cupcake Porn

   1 February 2012 at 9:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It’s almost like it forgot that it could grow roots from the base :)

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   Brian

   1 February 2012 at 9:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Nah, it just decided that growing roots from the base was for suckahs. It’s like baggy pants — all the cool trees are into visible roots now.

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    frankb

    1 February 2012 at 10:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Hey, cut out all the middle stuff and you have a frame for a teepee. Hollow out the trunk and you have a chimney. Very intelligently designed.

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    A. R

    1 February 2012 at 11:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    frankb: But can you stick in your mouth in a ridiculously Poe unconscious imitation of a sex act?

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    autumn

    1 February 2012 at 11:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    This is why you must keep the ents away from the triffids.

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    sc_9893656a3349bb748e4f9f13498cdf3b

    2 February 2012 at 12:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Reminds me of the dude in that Ween video

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    chigau (違う)

    2 February 2012 at 1:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    autumn @12
    Are there any Men In Black on your doorstep?
    Don’t open the door!!!1!!

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    F

    2 February 2012 at 6:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Why not? With a daily helping of walk water.

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    frog

    2 February 2012 at 8:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s like an ent-centipede. An entipede.

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    frankb

    2 February 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    A.R said,frankb: But can you stick in your mouth in a ridiculously Poe unconscious imitation of a sex act?

    WTF

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    WMDKitty

    2 February 2012 at 5:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    LOL @ “entipede”

    It’s a dryad.

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    charlessoto

    3 February 2012 at 3:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    That looks like a much higher quality effects Triffid.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/