I know there will be many who will tell me they've seen something like this before, or it's just a normal variation, happens all the time, etc.. If you do, please send the pictures of this happening elsewhere.
The picture was taken by a person who lives nearby, and it was on Yomiuri Shinbun Saitama version (9/1/2011). A normal lily is on the right side. The giant lily is about 1 meter tall, according to Yomiuri.
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Oh, that just a variation of the common Triffid don't worry while they are carnivorous and highly venomous their real danger is their high mobility and merciless hunger. Just stay at least 10 feet away from them at all times and it is unlikely that you'll get stung.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid
I don't know if it's real or fake, but it *looks* fake and a little Photoshopped. Where are the stems for all those blossoms gathered in a bunch at the top? What's the thick funnel-shaped tube that makes the base? My theory is that it's someone's prank flower arrangement and not some radiation-induced mutation.
uuuuh, i so hope that this is a fake! if not, irgh, scary!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/23/content_11761374_1.htm
^_^;
If its real...it could be polyploidy, or "extra genes". A triploid (3x)plant is not uncommon, and can appear as an extra "buff" version...larger, more genetic expression (more hairy, more bloomage, more size...)
Save the bulbs, and have a new lily type! As long as it passed the radiation tests for export...One way to make something out of disaster. Best wishes to all so severely impacted.
(cr here)
I've really seen tall flowering wild plants get like that this summer in Massachusetts; it's some sort of mistake in the plants' instructions
(would be nice to see past years' examples though).
Thank you for your blog,
and I hope the being- lied-to-and irradiated Japanese people can somehow rise up and defeat their awful govt/industrial complex
(US citizens need to somehow know enough about ours to want to do this, too).
What a world...
it's called fasciation, and here's an article about it.
http://forums.finegardening.com/node/8448
Thank you for your blog.
Jeep
What's happening in the mud ponds to the west?
@Jeep
So it's real. Amazing. Or, I should say "fascinating!"
Fasciation in lily can be caused by a virus :
http://bicyclegardening.blogspot.com/2010/08/mutant-lily-update.html
(cr here)
Jeep, thanks for the new vocabulary word!
Wikipedia says, ..."Fasciation can be caused by
a mutation in the meristematic cells,
bacterial infection, mite or insect attack, or chemical or mechanical damage. Some plants may inherit the trait.
Fasciation is rare overall, but has been observed in at least a hundred different plant species"...
I'd still like to compare how many did that last year to this year.
Couldn't find the link, but, remember those images of the plants; with the fallout visible on them?
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