#mutant flowers

[maplesleep]

Inktober day 1 - mutant botanicals

[knight-blooming]

A Cyclamen with fasciation! I've never seen this happen outside of various daisies myself, usually Gerbera, but this beautiful weirdo was amongst the hundred or so Cyclamen at my store. I'm so happy I found it before anything happened to it. As far as I've been able to examine, it is a fusion of at least 4 flower stalks, creating a long flat stem that is almost an inch wide, with only one flower able to successfully bloom. You can see and compare it to the normal Cyclamen around it. I've brought it home to hopefully preserve it in silica gel beads, though Cyclamen are notoriously difficult to keep intact, as they turn to goo after the flower expires.

[mildlyaffrontedsqueakytoy]

Mutant flowers. Aka, the I can't draw shit, but it turned out kinda pretty yet weird so I'll post it anyway.

[dreemmachine]

beautiful freak ! <3

[sucklett]

mutant dandelions I took pictures of in may

[jerseytomatoes]

Check out this mutant gerbera daisy! My camera had a hard time picking it up, but the stem is conjoined, as are the flowers!

(Please ignore the fried look the actual petals have, it’s been 97 degrees every day with no rain for a week--I’m doing my best) 

[andyjwells]

Man Discovers ‘Mutant Daisies’ Growing At Fukushima Nuclear Plant

A discovery of ‘mutant daisies’ has been made near the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

Twitter user San Kaido posted the pictures of the flowers, that appear to show stems and flowers connected to each other.

Others appear slightly deformed, and have prompted fears that radiation is affecting the area.

San Kaido wrote alongside the picture: “The right one grew up, split into 2 stems to have 2 flowers connected to each other, having 4 stems of flower tied belt-like.

“The left one has 4 stems grew up to be tied to each other and it had the ring-shaped flower.

“The atmospheric dose is 0.5 μSv/h at 1m above the ground.”

However, while the flowers may well be from Fukushima, their strange look may not necessarily be the result of radiation.

Plants and flowers can produce longer looking heads as a result of a natural condition known as fasciation.

Hormonal imbalances in the plant are usually to blame, altho bacterial and viral infections can also produce the mutations.

Three of the Fukushima’s six nuclear reactors went into meltdown in 2011 when the plant was hit by a tsunami - the result of a huge earthquake.

Pics: Twitter/Wikipedia

[softwaring]

Mutant Gerbera