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OKUMA, Japan — Radiation has all kinds of effects, based on the things I learned in comic books: super strength, hulking out, inevitable greenishness, perhaps an extra limb or two and sometimes, rarely, extreme death. In the case of Fukushima's vegetables, exposed to some pretty hefty amounts of radiation after the Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster in 2011, it has translated into becoming, well, really weird.

A post on Imgur purports to show dozens of bizarre veggies grown in the area around the Fukushima plant after the blast, sporting a wide array of things that should not be happening, like leaves growing out of a ripe red tomato or tomatoes growing on what looks like an eggplant, or even just strangely shaped flowers growing out of other flowers.

Some 540 quadrillion Becquerels of radiation, about as much as a very small nuclear bomb, were released into the area, leading to some vivid and sometimes unsettling results in the form of misshaped vegetables. Check out the photo gallery.

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