"QUANTUM SHOT" #200





The Cutest... Vegetable



China is home to some very interesting hot peppers. This one should be put up on eBay - it might even get more money than the "Jesus Toast".

(Source: Sina News Agency, via)





























I'd post more images of it's short happy life: frolicking in the sun, growing to full maturity... eating the owner for breakfast... but sadly, I do not have enough information :)



However, here is a... vegetable Mickey Mouse:







and a carrot gentleman:







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Some other creatures perhaps masquerading as plants?

This "flower" is just too smug looking:





(Image courtesy Betty Blan)



"Euphorbia esculenta" flower has a face:





(image credit: Fernando Arias)



Kalanchoe Daigremontiana looks like some kind of Martian lobster:





(image credit: Fernando Arias)





Martin Heigan took a great picture of Stapelia flavopurpurea flower

(with its out-worldly crop of "tentacles"):





(image credit: Martin Heigan)



Passiflora Caerulea flower, equipped with its own "parabolic antenna":









(images credit: Leonardo Garrido)



Tree... walking?









I also happen to have the following proof of aliens residing on Earth:

Mystery "flower"







Perhaps we can find out what this thing is.



UPDATE

Apparently this is not a flower or a plant, but the amazing Lamprey.

A "jawless fish with a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. Although they are often not considered to be true fish because of their vastly different morphology and physiology." (thanks Ilja)

(Source: David Attenborough's "Life on Earth")



Still, better watch what you're eating. Not every plant is what it seems:







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