Botanical Wednesday: Don’t blame me, my wife sends these to me

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   betelgeux

   11 July 2012 at 8:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Phallic symbols mixed with swarming insects…reminds me of a Salvador Dali painting.

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   Evader, the parasite-infested branch on the evolutionary tree

   11 July 2012 at 8:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Science!

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   Mattir

   11 July 2012 at 8:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Could you ask Mary to share her amazing google fu for finding these kinky plant images?

   Also, a pit dweller recently told me that I was a terrible parent and should be investigated by my local child welfare agency because I said that Pharuyngula was an excellent place for teenagers. I think he meant the invective and demand for actual evidence in arguments, but perhaps what he really meant was Mary’s naughty naughty plant porn.

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   Glen Davidson

   11 July 2012 at 9:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The insects crawling all over it add a creepy touch, though.

   An illustration of how attractive crabs are.

   Glen Davidson

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   F

   11 July 2012 at 9:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I. I… I’ve never seen a penis come out of a vagina in that orientation.

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   mickll

   11 July 2012 at 10:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Plant conservation?

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   Antiochus Epiphanes

   11 July 2012 at 10:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   What is it with you people?

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   RFW

   11 July 2012 at 10:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It’s clearly an aroid, but just which one is anybody’s guess. Mary would be doing the pharyngulentsia a favor if she provided the scientific names of the organisms she finds pictures of.

   I grow several aroids in my own garden: Arisaema triphyllum, Pinellia cordata, Arisarum proboscideum, Arum flavum, Arum creticum, Arum nigrum, and Arum dioscoridis. The last is noteworthy for its ugly spathe, marked with splotches of dull yellow-green and purple-black, its black spadix, and a scent when in flower like a compost heap that’s been over-watered and under-aereated, and hence has turned to anaerobic decay.

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   paulburnett

   11 July 2012 at 10:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The spadixes (the phallic thingies) of some of these large lilies is attractive to insects because they are significantly warmer than the ambient evening atmosphere, reaching as much as 115 degrees F, to vaporize a bug-attractive resin.

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    davidparnell

    11 July 2012 at 10:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    crap I wanted to make the Dali reference but somebody already took it :(

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    waydude

    11 July 2012 at 10:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    This is why I can never sit on a toilet seat without checking under it first.

    Well, that and my arachnophobia.

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    Glen Davidson

    11 July 2012 at 10:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s clearly an aroid, but just which one is anybody’s guess. Mary would be doing the pharyngulentsia a favor if she provided the scientific names of the organisms she finds pictures of.

    Philodendron bipinnatifidum, which shows up when you click on Part 1 of the article.

    Glen Davidson

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    portia

    11 July 2012 at 11:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Click to open new Pharyngula post on reader…SO walks by at exactly that moment…exclaims “What IS that?!” What is it, indeed!

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    bad Jim

    12 July 2012 at 12:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    We used to have philodendrons in the planter in our front yard that sported long, hot, hard phallic protuberances. Fragrant and flagrant, they were: 2cm diameter, at least 20cm long, > 35º. My dad would encourage young female visitors to feel them.

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    richardjohn

    12 July 2012 at 2:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The last is noteworthy for its ugly spathe, marked with splotches of dull yellow-green and purple-black, its black spadix, and a scent when in flower like a compost heap that’s been over-watered and under-aereated, and hence has turned to anaerobic decay.
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    DLC

    12 July 2012 at 4:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    let me guess, this came from a Republican Congressman’s garden ?

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    madtom1999

    12 July 2012 at 4:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Just when I thought I was over my OCD washing thing!

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    M Groesbeck

    12 July 2012 at 6:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Insects on a phallic object mostly just make me think of Cremaster 2.

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    Ms. Daisy Cutter, Vile Human Being

    12 July 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The insects crawling all over it add a creepy touch, though.

    That exists as a fetish. I’m at work so don’t ask me to provide links.

    Mattir:
    

    Also, a pit dweller recently told me that I was a terrible parent and should be investigated by my local child welfare agency…

    BWAHAHAHA!

    bad Jim:
    

    My dad would encourage young female visitors to feel them.

    Is/was your dad always a creep?