But wouldn’t you know it, it’s an endangered species. If it weren’t for that, I’d happily wear Telipogon diabolicus on my lapel everywhere.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
But wouldn’t you know it, it’s an endangered species. If it weren’t for that, I’d happily wear Telipogon diabolicus on my lapel everywhere.
Pedantic Classicist Alert!
With the name telipogon diabolicus It should really be the Devil’s Beard Orchid. Or, more accurately still, the Devil’s Beard Tip Orchid.
Makes you wonder why the botainsts who came up with the Linnaean classification wanted to focus on the beard tip rather than the face…
Don’t you suspect there’s a genus of orchid called Telipogon that this particular species belongs to, so it simply inherited the “beard tip” designation? Wikipedia says it’s a large genus with dozens of species.
Ah, that would be it!
Going entirely for the Greek and Latin translations and forgetting how Linnaean classification works. Me all over…
This is a lot clearer than the face of Jesus on a toast and therefore definite proof that Satan surpasses Yahweh.
If you turn it upside down, it looks like a cuttlefish.
chigau and rietpluim
And if you don’t it looks like an upside-down cuttlefish, which proves that the cuttlefish surpasses both Satan and Yahweh!
I’m Batman.
It reminded me of this character from the old Disney cartoons I watched as a kid.
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Big Boppa
It actually looks a bit like your avatar.
Just sayin’…
@9
What avatar? That’s my high school yearbook photo.
Since when does the belief in the existence of devils count as atheism?
Yeah, right, you’re referencing what a rather dumb fundie thinks atheism is, but still.
Is it related to Paphiopedilum (a common cultivated “shoe orchid” genus)? The fusion of the lower sepals and the cup shaped labium makes me think so. I hope they got some seed pods and are trying to grow it.
I can see why someone might call it a Devil’s Head, but the first thing I thought of when I saw it was a bug sitting on the flower. I wonder if that’s the mimicry that was actually selected for, as with some other flowers.