It reminds me of something, I can’t quite recall what.
Salix caprea pollen grain
(via National Geographic)
Botanical Wednesday: What a cute little button!
Salix caprea pollen grain
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
The ass-crack you promised not to show.
Better late than never. Looks like you need to queue up a lot of daily posts, since there is almost one theme thread per day, before you get on the jet plane.
Easy with the Georgia O’Keefe references, PZ….
I couldn’t figure out what it looks like, so I sent the link to my girlfriend. She said she wasn’t surprised I couldn’t figure it out.
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Still learning (female anatomy),
nejishiki
It’s a clitoris? Almost found one once…
@#4
I’m not sure that I’d tell that on myself, but thanks for the laugh anyway.
Apparently your girlfriend is patient since she’s still with you. Perhaps you might suggest that she be more instructive and teach you how to rock the man in the canoe?
If it was that red I’d be seeing a doctor.
Ah, PZ. You and your botanical wednesdays. Isn’t it funny how many things can remind people of, erm, certain things? You’ll never run out of material!
“It reminds me of something, I can’t quite recall what”
Poor Trophy Wife…..
Coincidentally, there is a species of plant called Clitoria.
And yes, it is named because of the resemblance.
Oh, that tasty tidbit. Getting near sleep time…
This isn’t my line, but: “really, how hard is it to find ‘FRONT and CENTER’?” :) I love the pic!
You mean it isn’t a person in some kind of reptile costume peering out between the curtains in a theatre?
Wow, it really has been too long…
They really do look like orchids, don’t they?
+10 for reference identification.
Just seeing it made me think of the clitoris, which initially made me ashamed about being so immature. But after seeing that PZ also thought the same, it lead me to the only logical conclusion… that both PZ and myself are fantastic lovers. Go us!
Made me think of a eudicot male gametophyte. Am I missing something here?
{PZ–Thanks!}
I’ve been to Santa Fe, and that STILL made me blush!
Salix caprea is also called pussy willow. I always wondered where this strange nickname originated.
@ atomjack: Stranger in a Starage Land was very educational, when I was a young teen…
*Strange
Damn tyyoppses.
I have a cute little button of my own, similar to that.
I thought I had such a dirty mind, until I read the comments, sometimes I guess it really does look like, what your first impression tells you it looks like :D
Hmm, that’s the hottest pollen grain I have ever seen.
I notice a distinct lack of http://www.hotyoungpollengrains.com sites… I can already see the dollahs flowing in.
It’s clearly a giraffe sticking its nose through a window decorated with ugly red curtains. Must be a Las Vegas safari-styled hotel. Well, I’m never staying there.
I must be missing something here.
All I see is a priests robe.
It looks like a small, curled up, yellow octopus.
Doesnt it normally have a hood behind which to hide, so girls can accuse guys of being clueless?
I clearly see Moses splitting the red sea. Just from the center for some reason.
She wants to show me
the little man in the boat.
I wait by the lake.
Dick Cheney’s cardiologist has a zoom lens?
guys are by and large clueless, dumbass
{ahem} It looks like a lady’s clematis to me. Very important to find the clematis, especially if you wish to engage in cumulonimbus.*
Louis
*Less important if the lady wishes to engage in horatio, but still polite to acknowledge its existence.
Man. That’s almost NSFW. I like how the Wednesday Botanical is always suggestive. Appeals to the juvenile aspects of my personality.
Ah, it’s vocal cords when one’s choking on a peanut. That flower needs a Heimlich.
Strangely I didn’t even notice the resemblance to my own lady bits until I started reading the comments, and then I went “Oh yeah!”… huh. Weird. Well, at least I can honestly that if it was even remotely phallic I would see it in a heartbeat.
From the furballs (catkins) that are its blossoms.
When I was a younger man I hypothesized that it existed only in myth, like the snipe, as a ploy to get girls’ boyfriends to take their time and look around a little down there.
Now I see I have been wrong all these years. Are they always so grainy like that? I’d heard of women’s parts being compared to flowers, petals, and all that, but I thought those were just colourful metaphors.
Reminds me of an essay that Stephen J. Gould wanted to entitle “Clits and Tits”.
I never can quite stifle the giggles when people give each other flowers. I mean, really, severed genitalia? I’m with Antiochus, and loving the addition of botanical Wednesdays.
I can’t decide between Louis @32 or suckingicecubes @ 29 – Tie for threat winner.
She has a little soldier, in his little trench.
surrounded by foliage, that isn’t very dense.
(proof positive that I am not cuttlefish)
Clearly, the color scheme is wrong. This should be a shiny, red button.
sasqwatch, I thought that was going to be this shiny red button.