Comments on: Skull flower

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:27:50 +0000

Just in time for International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

By: Skull or flower – you decide! « Richard Wiseman

Skull or flower – you decide! « Richard Wiseman — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:31:17 +0000

[...] pal Phil Plait has recently posted this great example of pareidolia … a flower that looks like a [...]

By: On The Other Hand » Suggestion Saturday: September 8, 2012

On The Other Hand » Suggestion Saturday: September 8, 2012 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:09:50 +0000

[...] Skull Flower. It took me a few seconds to see the skull. I wonder how many people walked past this flower before someone noticed what it could resemble? [...]

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:50:01 +0000

@ kat – Hm, I’m not much of a gardener. Maybe you could come over and help.

By: kat wagner

kat wagner — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:21:38 +0000

@Matt B. There were several milkweeds but they’re all nasty. And you really don’t know what an xtension agent is?? Land grant universities have them all over the states, like the University of Idaho has one or more in each county and land plots where they study different varieties of stuff. The agents have specialties, like animals (big and small) or veggies or berries or trees, so you get it. Really? You didn’t know? I took the Master Gardener course one year and a whole bunch of agents came and talked to us.

You need to go back to where you tore out the milkweed and dig up the roots. (grin).

By: Chris Heinz

Chris Heinz — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:37:21 +0000

You found Jebus!

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:31:06 +0000

@ kat wagner – Thanks so much. I was hoping someone would geek out and tell me what it was. What’s an extension agent?

@ CR – Don’t worry, I got the joke. And I got that Triffid before it could cause any trouble.

Ha ha. This post is now the 6th thing that comes up if you search for “labriform milkweed”. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be what it is. All the pictures show very narrow leaves. I think it’s showy milkweed: http://www.extension.org/pages/54927/milkweed. It might be A. syriaca, though I never saw any flowers, so it’s hard to tell.

By: sheldonc

sheldonc — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:20:19 +0000

Now I’m going to have to go out and look at all my dying flowers …

By: CR

CR — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:32:51 +0000

@MattB… Did you kill an infant Triffid? (As in ‘Day of the Triffids,’ not the Triffid Nebula.)

By: Mark T

Mark T — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:10:00 +0000

You beat me to it, just barely, sHx! Except I think it’s the skull of the Virgin Mary.