Jul 25 2012

Botanical Wednesday: What strange planet is this?

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by PZ Myers

(via Plantipp)

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Caerie, Rage Flail

25 July 2012 at 8:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Just knowing those exist make me happy.
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kennypo65

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

That’s beautiful, and it really does look like an alien landscape. (Not that I actually know)
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Glen Davidson

25 July 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Bestiality isn’t enough for Darwinists, now they’re breeding plants.

Glen Davidson
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Caerie, Rage Flail

25 July 2012 at 8:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Just knowing those exist make me happy.

Me fail English? That’s unpossible.

:sigh:
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lynnwilhelm

25 July 2012 at 9:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Echinops are just cool. But it’s hard to grow in my area; too humid. I had a landscape client who really wanted that particular blue color (it’s usually enhanced in garden catalogs) for her garden. I was willing to try it but warned her. It didn’t make it through the summer.
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kosk11348

25 July 2012 at 9:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They look like viruses on stems.
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vernonbalbert

25 July 2012 at 9:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
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Antiochus Epiphanes

25 July 2012 at 9:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Thistle go down as one of my favorites. My wife too. I aster.
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Cuttlefish

25 July 2012 at 10:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Those look like the photographic negative of our Earth flowers…
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Naked Bunny with a Whip

25 July 2012 at 10:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Black light. Who needs it?
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Ava, Oporornis maledetta

25 July 2012 at 10:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Planet of the Spore People
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Amateur Hour

25 July 2012 at 11:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Thistles are truly great, but Globe Thistles are the best of all.
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carpenterman

25 July 2012 at 11:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Seriously, man, if you have access to a starship, it’s time to share.
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StevoR

26 July 2012 at 1:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Pluto?

Trafamaldore?

Zubenelgenubi V?
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thztds

26 July 2012 at 1:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Fuck! That is an awesome pic. I want to live there.
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birgerjohansson

26 July 2012 at 1:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Baby triffids!
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pentatomid

26 July 2012 at 2:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’ve got those in my garden. They’re pretty cool.
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tyrannical

26 July 2012 at 3:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Quite lovely, but the color looks a bit off as if it was shot through a filter to enhance the color. Reminds me of something out of Dr. Seuss.
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LykeX

26 July 2012 at 3:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Reminds me of some of the scenery out of Rice Boy.
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duvelthehobbit666

26 July 2012 at 4:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

My grandmother has those in her garden. Didn’t know they were special.
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madtom1999

26 July 2012 at 5:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They’re not special – just nice.
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torquilmacneil

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

Planet Photoshop perhaps?

The flowers are real but that colour is not in nature.
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julietdefarge

26 July 2012 at 7:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That color, and other intense blues, certainly do exist in nature. Try anchusa, some petunias, gentians, lobelia, etc. I personally like the blues of Himalayan poppies and good ol’ roadside chicory.
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Caerie, Rage Flail

26 July 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The color looks real enough to me. The angle and lighting help enhance it, though. Echinops pictures.
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Ms. Daisy Cutter, Vile Human Being

26 July 2012 at 10:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I… want to photoshop Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion flopping blissfully into that field.
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pipenta

26 July 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

One through which you do not want to run barefoot.
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pentatomid

26 July 2012 at 12:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Quite lovely, but the color looks a bit off as if it was shot through a filter to enhance the color. Reminds me of something out of Dr. Seuss.

No, the colors are real. That’s what those things look like just before sunset. Trust me, I’ve got those plants in my garden.
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Grimalkin

26 July 2012 at 5:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s reeeaally hard for me to see this as not altered in some way. The shininess and crispness of them looks out of place compared to the grass/trees, and it’s very unreal looking. almost like they were digitally rendered 3D objects pasted over the background or something.

Though upon clicking the picture and seeing the full image it’s a bit more believable.

But damn, if those really haven’t been altered past good photography, I need me some. Even if they look like they would die instantly.
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laurie

26 July 2012 at 11:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They really are lovely plants; in winter birds perch on the stems to eat the seeds. They never get all the seeds though, and you’ll have these beauties coming up everywhere the following year. Just be sure to pull the unwanted ones before they get big.