Reminder: Monsters Are Real

2 years ago

@Cat_Whitney: "I'm going to do a thread of my favorite spooky plants!"

Don't miss the descriptions! But let me particularly draw your attention to:

Clathrus archeri: The Octopus Stinkhorn or Devil's Fingers. It bursts from a white "eggsack" before splitting & stinks like rotting flesh.

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Tags: doomed, mutants, parts, teeth, tentacles

3 Responses:

1. Not Frank says:

   2 years ago at 10:14 am

   Pedantically, I think they now consider fungi closer to us than to plants.

   • jwz says:

     2 years ago at 10:27 am

     I feel closer to them already.

     Or maybe that's just the blood music.

2. Jef Poskanzer says:

   2 years ago at 9:26 am

   Orobanche is a genus of parasitic plants that I'm somewhat interested in. They don't look particularly monstrous or even interesting. The monster was whoever gave them the common name: broomrape.

   Every time I'm on the ground looking at a cute little cluster of these guys, an old lady comes along and asks what they are called.