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#2

Daughter Found This Branch And Uses It As Her Magic Wand

Final score:

229points

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Helena 8 months ago

Absolutely a magic wand

98points

Michigan State University Extension horticulture educator Gretchen Voyle says that it's important to note that not every odd-looking plant is fasciated.

"With any kind of strange growth, the first thing to do is eliminate the possibility that the odd leaves or stems were caused by a light dose of weed killer or herbicide," she writes.

#3

It Tasted Good Too

Final score:

221points

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cerinamroth 8 months ago

My dream come true! Seriously, the first thing I ate after I gave birth to my daughter was a whole pineapple. Best reward I could think of!

57points

#4

Grumpkin - Grape That Looks Like A Pumpkin

Final score:

213points

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Claudio Toshio 8 months ago

Looks like a Brazilian Cherry. https://i0.wp.com/revistajardins.pt/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pitanga-1395857_1920.jpg?fit=1080%2C810&ssl=1

24points

#5

An Example Of Fasciation - Rare Mutation That Can Result In Beautiful And Unique Patterning. Daisies Are Particularly Susceptible To It

Final score:

201points

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30ninjazinmybag 8 months ago

Daisy caterpillar. I used to make them when I was little. So pretty

23points

Voyle explains that "lawn herbicides with 2-4,D leave grasses untouched, but kill broadleaved plants in lawns."

"However, when a small amount drifts onto a broadleaf plant, it can cause the new growth to take on a bizarre appearance."

#6

Fasciation

Final score:

191points

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Jack Burton 8 months ago

Beautiful twin sisters !

34points

#7

Debbie Crest Is Still Going Strong

Final score:

190points

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GrowingThruConcrete 8 months ago

Her name...is Debbie?

37points

#8

A Particularly Neat Example Of Fasciation

Final score:

187points

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Linda van der Pal 8 months ago

I'm not a flower, I'm a bee!

67points

#9

Fascinating Verbena At Gravetye Manor

Final score:

183points

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glowworm2 8 months ago

Pretty! Looks like a caterpillar.

28points

In these cases, leaves can become twisted or pig-tailed, thickened and stiff, almost like rigid plastic.

"Sometimes, tissue is rippled or rolled. There may also be browning to leaf margins or the entire leaf," Voyle adds.

#10

Found This Really Strange-Looking Strawberry

Final score:

183points

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Luiza Menezess 8 months ago

Appleberry!

20points

#11

Mutant Rose

Final score:

179points

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I heart Boo-BI-es 8 months ago

This looks awesome, so unique.

30points

#12

The Mutant Digitalis Has So Many Blooms, The Top Is Spinning

Final score:

178points

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30ninjazinmybag 8 months ago

So pretty

26points

#13

Fairy Tale Eggplant

Final score:

178points

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Panflute 8 months ago

Finally, the eggplant symbol for the echidna! (Unbelievably, it has a four-headed member.)

6points

#14

Pachypodium Lamerei At The University Of California, Berkeley Botanical Garden

Final score:

172points

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Fudou MFB 8 months ago

The forbidden mask of el cactoo

47points

#15

Mutant Black-Eyed Susan

Final score:

165points

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KDS 8 months ago

“Feed me Seymour”

238points

#16

It Has Been Blooming Like This For Over 3 Years

Final score:

160points

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Jules 8 months ago

Bet this smells amazing

36points

#17

A Weird Pineapple That Has Undergone Cresting, Also Known As Fasciation

The weird parts have undergone trauma of some sort (bacterial or viral) or are genetically predisposed to this condition, which is causing abnormal growth patterns along the apical meristem.

Donttalktome4 Report

Final score:

157points

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TheCrazyBunnyLady 8 months ago

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn

85points

#18

A Group Of Dandelions Fused And Grew Together With One Big Stem

Final score:

154points

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Alexia 8 months ago

Together we are stronger

42points

#19

I Thought I Might Be Experiencing Some Sort Of Episode When I First Saw This Extraordinary Thistle In Benbecula Yesterday

Final score:

153points

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Orang lord 8 months ago

It looks like a caterpillar

46points

#20

Not Sure What's In The Water, But It Looks Like At Least 5 Stalks Combined Into One. I Have Named It The Hive

Final score:

148points

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Angela B 8 months ago

Sparagus, sparagus will you do the fandango?

65points

#21

My First Tomato, I Think I'm Doing Something Wrong

Final score:

148points

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Jack Burton 8 months ago

Oppenheimer tomato lover.

44points

#22

Amazing Crested Aeonium

Final score:

147points

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Nothankyou 8 months ago

amazing

2points

#23

These Bananas Are Joined Together. It Was Surprisingly Bland And Didn't Taste Very Good

Final score:

146points

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Jack Burton 8 months ago

That's a nightmare for internet use as a scale

138points

#24

I Think My Madagascar Palm Is Trying To Flex On Me

Final score:

142points

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30ninjazinmybag 8 months ago

He flexing on the whole neighbourhood 😆

43points

#25

My Double And Triple Apples

Final score:

141points

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Sephora Black 8 months ago

Siamese apples.

32points

#26

My Mutant Sunflower Is Awesome

Final score:

139points

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Alexia 8 months ago (edited)

I've never seen a rectangular sunflower before!

33points

#27

Had A Visitor On My Crested Cubic Frost

Final score:

136points

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Randy Sanders 8 months ago

Giant blue green sentinel, from a different time and place.

3points

#28

Frankenkiwi

Final score:

135points

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Shiroi Tsuki 8 months ago

That's a kiwidney

86points

#29

I Couldn’t Wait For This One To Completely Acclimate And Root Before I Share It, She’s Just So Perfectly Mermaid-Shaped

Final score:

135points

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Rebekah Fuentes 8 months ago

Gorgeous! Perfect pot for it too😉

56points

#30

Found This Fasciated Silver Celosia Today At The Garden Center

Final score:

129points

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leendadll 8 months ago

Purty!!

17points

#31

The Corn I Harvested Today Is Looking Freshly Mutated

Final score:

128points

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Sarcastic and Proud 8 months ago

So much potential popcorn!!!!!

24points

#32

Crested Maria

Final score:

126points

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Pensive_Panda 8 months ago

That is beautiful

19points

#33

Fasciated Lemon On My Tree

Final score:

123points

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Alexia 8 months ago

"And all that I can see/ is just a yellow lemon tree!"

19points

#34

Crested Echeveria Lemon Rose

Final score:

123points

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Lorraine Woollands 8 months ago

That's a pretty colour

18points

#35

Growing Stable. My Crested Echeveria Minibelle

Final score:

121points

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Pensive_Panda 8 months ago

Nice!!

14points

#36

This Fabulous Example Of Fasciation In An Agave Plant Is A Real Monster Nightmare

Final score:

118points

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Shiroi Tsuki 8 months ago

Ooh hairy tongue

40points

#37

Double Banana? Double Egg Yolk? How About This Here Triple Kiwi

Final score:

112points

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Cristian A. 8 months ago

It looks like the cat moving through a panoramic photo shoot attempt

48points

#38

Absolutely Fasciated By This Eggplant

Final score:

110points

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Crystal Spencer 8 months ago

That's what she said.

35points

#39

My Crested Favorite. It's Called Echeveria Lincoln Frost, Got It Two And A Half Years Ago

He was small and blue, but my grow lights have produced this lovely peach stress color which I love!

EvilTriffid Report

Final score:

108points

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Kar Red Roses 8 months ago

Stress color? What’s that about. I thought succulent love grow lights?

8points

#40

Mermaid Tail With Lots Of Character

Final score:

108points

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I heart Boo-BI-es 8 months ago

It looks like a mermaids 🧜‍♀️ hairbrush

34points

#41

Giant Echium With Fasciation In My Friend's Back Yard On Northern California Coast

Final score:

107points

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 8 months ago

Okay, I love plants. But honestly, I'd be scared to get near this thing if it grew in my garden!

5points

#42

Fasciation Is A Common Occurrence In Plants But A Bromeliad Inflorescence Is A 1st For Me

Final score:

107points

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Pensive_Panda 8 months ago

Gorgeous!

13points

#43

I Have A Mutant Dandelion With 8 Flowers All In One Stem

Final score:

104points

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Mara Was… A Surgeon 8 months ago

One of us, one of us, one of us!

25points

#44

Meet Sunny, My Mutant Buddy

Final score:

104points

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JoMeBee 8 months ago

Needs googly eyes

71points

#45

My Friend Grew This Fasciated Cucumber

Final score:

102points

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Sarcastic and Proud 8 months ago

All I can think of is the potential pickles!!!!

27points

#46

Euphorbia Susannae Crest Is Growing Like Crazy And Getting More Wrinkled

Final score:

97points

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Candid Panda 8 months ago

Little Shop of Horrors

33points

#47

My Crested Garden Succulent

Final score:

97points

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Bookworm 8 months ago

It's escaping

22points

#48

Friend At Work Grew This Freak Asparagus

Final score:

96points

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CharliAnn Olney 8 months ago

Looks like it is trying to escape!

0points

#49

What Happened To This Zucchini

Final score:

95points

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M O'Connell 8 months ago

It's de-evolving back into its squash ancestors.

34points

#50

That’s A Buttercup

Final score:

86points

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Helena 8 months ago

Too much butter, not enough cup.

33points

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#51

My Mutated Sunflower Has Bloomed

Final score:

46points

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arthbach 8 months ago

Wonder what would happen if these seeds were saved and planted the next year. Would there be similar sunflowers next year? Or is it an environmental trigger?

16points

#52

Too Much Pine, Not Enough Apple

Final score:

45points

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Bookworm 8 months ago

First one I would consider truly creepy - like an alien organ.

2points

#53

Weird Mutation In A Gourd. This Grew At A Local Pumpkin Patch And My Friend Who Works There Grabbed It For Me

I understand gourds grow in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but this one seems a little different.

RatDitch Report

Final score:

44points

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Sarcastic and Proud 8 months ago

This will make a wicked 2 headed jack-o-lantern

11points

#54

Fasciated Euphorbia I Found At The Store

Final score:

43points

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Bill Swallow 8 months ago

Well, at least it's nicely zipped up.

5points

#55

My Mutant Pineapple

Final score:

43points

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Bookworm 8 months ago

Chonk pineapple

3points

#56

Crested Saguaro

Final score:

43points

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cerinamroth 8 months ago

If only someone could climb up there and put a couple of glowsticks in, it would freak anyone out who saw it

15points

#57

Fasciation Mutation In Daisies

On the left, four flower stalks grew together and connected, creating a ring-like flower. On the right, four flower stems grew together in a band, then split into two in the middle and bloomed into two connected flowers.

san_kaido Report

Final score:

42points

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Petra Schaap 8 months ago

for some reason this completely freaks me out. I really dont like this :-(

1point

#58

Beautiful Crested Pineapple Growing In A Vietnamese Garden

Final score:

41points

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Bill Swallow 8 months ago

Reminds me of the three-headed knight in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'.

6points

#59

In A Fruit Market In Chiang Mai, One Of The Vendors Had This Fasciated Pineapple On Display

Final score:

41points

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Brian Droste 8 months ago

WOW.

1point

#60

On A Hike With My Dad At Sabino Canyon When We Saw This

Final score:

41points

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago

Fasciation in plants, such as this cactus, can be caused by random mutations, hormonal imbalances, viruses, bacterial infection, fungi, mites, or damage from insects, cold, heat, or physical injury.

0points

#61

Triplet Chili

Final score:

41points

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KDS 8 months ago

That chili pepper is just flexing.

16points

#62

Spectacular Example Of Plant Fasciation Seen In This Thistle. Flower Heads And Stems All Fused, Creating A Very Flattened Stem And Brilliant Looking Flower Head

Final score:

40points

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ozymandias(she/they) 8 months ago

Okay this one is actually scary-

3points

#63

My Ascot Rainbow Plant Has A Strange Mutation

Final score:

40points

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KDS 8 months ago

Is this how Bigfoots are born?

12points

#64

Yesterday I Came Across This Interesting Figwort, Which Was Demonstrating A Condition Known As Fasciation. This Is Where A Mutation Occurs Causing Stems To Appear Fused And Flattened

Final score:

38points

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Mara Was… A Surgeon 8 months ago

Cool little caterpillar!

10points

#65

Huge Crested Sempervivum Jungle Shadows

Final score:

38points

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#66

Crested Agavoides

Final score:

38points

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MaggieMay85 8 months ago

This looks normal

0points

#67

Fasciated California Poppy I Found At Work Today

Final score:

38points

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Nugget 8 months ago (edited)

Wonder how many seeds that thing could make!

0points

#68

This Flower Is Very Weirdly Mutated

Final score:

38points

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#69

Mutation In Clovers

Final score:

37points

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Sarcastic and Proud 8 months ago

Talk about lucky

9points

#70

My Beautiful Mutated Ranunculus

Final score:

37points

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#71

Topsy Turvy And Her Crested Baby

Final score:

37points

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Nugget 8 months ago

🐛

0points

#72

An Amazing Crested Succulent Spotted At A Succulent Show

Final score:

36points

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Brian Droste 8 months ago

That is cool.

0points

#73

Mutated Daisies In My Garden

Final score:

36points

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Tabitha 8 months ago

Is your garden in Chernobyl, perchance?

2points

#74

Check Out The Fasciation On This Bulbine Lily, It's Crazy Cool

Final score:

36points

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Nugget 8 months ago

Girthy

0points

#75

Fasciated Strawberries. The Whole Pack Was Practically Like This

Final score:

36points

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cerinamroth 8 months ago

Usually, the bigger the fruit the less tasty... I would be interested to know if these were any good.

8points

#76

A Fasciated Banana We Found A While Ago

Final score:

36points

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#77

Skull Cookie Jar (With Holes Drilled) And Crested Euphorbia Flanaganii

Final score:

36points

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Candid Panda 8 months ago

Brains!

7points

#78

Crested Echeveria Ghidoric Iron Under The Golden Morning Sun

Final score:

35points

POST

#79

Love This Flower Mutation

Final score:

35points

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Happy Homemaker 8 months ago

It looks like an angry owl.

9points

#80

This Monster Was A Gift From Someone Who Knows I Like Weird Plants

Final score:

35points

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#81

Allocasuarina Looking A Little Unnatural

Final score:

35points

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Bookworm 8 months ago

Looks like a mushroom

0points

#82

Meet Broccoli, My Very Crested Multi-Headed Echeveria Perle Von Nurnberg

She’s very top-heavy and is liable to topple any time now. I have to repot her, but I’m dreading it because I think I need to cut her down a bit along the trunk to fit better. Another idea is to turn her into several plants, since she has at least 3, maybe 4 separate crested heads.

unavoidable Report

Final score:

34points

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Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)

Transfer the plant—-gently!—-to a wider pot to balance the top-heaviness. If need be, add some supports (ones that won’t end up cutting into the plant) to the widest parts to help hold them up. This absolute beauty cannot be cut or allowed to topple, and must be preserved at all costs!

3points