Talking Plants Too

This is a secondary blog, inspired by Bengoldacre.posterous.com, where Ben Goldacre "witters on and on and on about things that are too long to post on twitter and not clever enough to post on [his] main blog at www.badscience.net". TALKING PLANTS TOO is a scrapbook of ideas for TALKING PLANTS proper and for other stuff … including direct reproduction of posts I just can't bear to not find again (with URL up front, hopefully sufficient attribution given the low readership of this blog...)

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Hydnora africana, one weird plant

Something worth writing about, one day. Thanks Alex Chapman (via Facebook) for posting the image and caption, plus this Encyclopedia of Life link: http://eol.org/pages/5514361/overview

Jim Croft, also via Facebook, says: Hydnoraceae. Near Piperaceae and Aristolochiaceae. Who would have imagined such a thing?