If a tomato runs out of the hormone that keeps seeds dormant, they may start sprouting from inside the fruit (this is called vivipary)🍅
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This is existentially terrifying.
This is basically what happens to Radek in Annihilation (2018).
The artist Feefal is also on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/feefal
thank you but fuck tumblr. that site is despicable garbage. they ask you to log in after scrolling for like 5 posts.
funny coincidence that my dad just mentioned this particular tomato quirk earlier today.
maybe i am your dad? Hi John
Reminds me of the hanahaki disease trope
Something tells me I shouldn’t look this up
edit: oh, it’s fictional
Fictional but aesthetically beautiful.
… If you ignore the agonising screams
Someone should draw something similar for corn smut (a parasitic fungus that infects maize kernels).
No thanks.
