Freaks of nature (brace yourself...)

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08 Aug 2010, 5:37 am

i found this 3-headed dandelion in my my yard when i was like 8 years old
the stalk was about an inch thick

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08 Aug 2010, 5:40 am

Picture of a normal dandelion for comparison

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08 Aug 2010, 6:06 am

*sigh* i guess no one's interested in my freakishly large dandelion :oops: .....

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08 Aug 2010, 6:18 am

This is what happens when you neglect to teach your weeds the dangers of inbreeding.

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08 Aug 2010, 6:18 am

I am I love freaks of nature but the only one I found in my whole life was a clover with 4 leaves. It was in 1997, I still keep it. Your flower looks like Siamese triplets.

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08 Aug 2010, 6:20 am

Irulan wrote:

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I love freaks of nature but the only one I found in my whole life was a clover with 4 leaves. It was in 1997, I still keep it. Your flower looks like Siamese triplets.

i found a clover with 7 leaves before

and i've found at least two clovers with 5 leaves.
it was when i was living on the navy base and there were patches of clover all over.

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08 Aug 2010, 6:30 am

That dandelion is cool. Did you eat it? You might have gotten mutant powers.

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08 Aug 2010, 6:31 am

Every time I see any place with clovers growing in, I can't help searching for any other clovers like that but that was the only one.

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08 Aug 2010, 6:33 am

Moog wrote:

That dandelion is cool. Did you eat it? You might have gotten mutant powers.

no, back then i didn't know they were edible :lol:

i only learned they were edible when i went through a phase around age 10 when i became interested in edible/medicinal plants. Because of that, i also learned that Dandelions were both not originally weeds, and not even native to this land.
Apparently they had medicinal purposes and were brought here from Europe.
Most people just think of them as weeds though these days and try to eradicate them.

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08 Aug 2010, 7:01 am

Geez, do you live near a nuclear waste factory or something? Just kidding. I would have loved to find that dandelion in my yard.

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08 Aug 2010, 8:30 am

Did you freeze the dandelion or anything? My grandmother still had some of my parents' wedding cake 10 years after they got divorced - lol!

You could've frozen that dandelion and taken it out once a year - people would've started a pilgrimage.

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08 Aug 2010, 9:26 am

happymusic wrote:

nope, i didn't freeze it :lol:

you notice in the pic that at the bottom of the stalk, it'd started splitting and curling upwards?
well, it continued to do that until it it hit the flower head after a bit.

ended up just tossing it

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08 Aug 2010, 9:41 am

just cool ! Thanks for the pic

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08 Aug 2010, 10:06 am

This is called "fasciation" - it happens occasionally to a variety of different plants. It can be due to a genetic mutation in part of the plant, or damage caused by bacteria, insects etc.

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08 Aug 2010, 10:29 am

wonders wrote:

just cool ! Thanks for the pic

you're very welcome, lol