Fasciation is a genetic mutation of a plant’s growing tip, and it can affect the stem, flowers, or fruits.
Sometimes, the results aren’t very dramatic. For example, the growing shoots may end up flattened, splayed apart, or may seem to be made up of several stems fused into one.
But other times, the effects are extremely eye-catching, such as grossly oversized flowers with a weirdly grotesque look — the closer to the ground that fasciation happens, the more exaggerated its effects tend to be.
So since spring is just around the corner, we decided to introduce you to this phenomenon and put together a collection of pics that illustrate the abnormalities that it can lead to.
#1 Fasciated Saguaro Specimen
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#2 Daughter Found This Branch And Uses It As Her Magic Wand
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#3 It Tasted Good Too
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#4 Grumpkin – Grape That Looks Like A Pumpkin
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#5 An Example Of Fasciation – Rare Mutation That Can Result In Beautiful And Unique Patterning. Daisies Are Particularly Susceptible To It
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#6 Fasciation
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#7 Debbie Crest Is Still Going Strong
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#8 A Particularly Neat Example Of Fasciation
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#9 Fascinating Verbena At Gravetye Manor
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#10 Found This Really Strange-Looking Strawberry
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#11 Mutant Rose
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#12 The Mutant Digitalis Has So Many Blooms, The Top Is Spinning
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#13 Fairy Tale Eggplant
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#14 Pachypodium Lamerei At The University Of California, Berkeley Botanical Garden
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#15 Mutant Black-Eyed Susan
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#16 It Has Been Blooming Like This For Over 3 Years
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#17 A Weird Pineapple That Has Undergone Cresting, Also Known As Fasciation
The weird parts have undergone trauma of some sort (bacterial or viral) or are genetically predisposed to this condition, which is causing abnormal growth patterns along the apical meristem.
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#18 A Group Of Dandelions Fused And Grew Together With One Big Stem
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#19 I Thought I Might Be Experiencing Some Sort Of Episode When I First Saw This Extraordinary Thistle In Benbecula Yesterday
Image source: WiWildlife
#20 Not Sure What’s In The Water, But It Looks Like At Least 5 Stalks Combined Into One. I Have Named It The Hive
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#21 My First Tomato, I Think I’m Doing Something Wrong
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#22 Amazing Crested Aeonium
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#23 These Bananas Are Joined Together. It Was Surprisingly Bland And Didn’t Taste Very Good
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#24 I Think My Madagascar Palm Is Trying To Flex On Me
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#25 My Double And Triple Apples
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#26 My Mutant Sunflower Is Awesome
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#27 Had A Visitor On My Crested Cubic Frost
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#28 Frankenkiwi
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#29 I Couldn’t Wait For This One To Completely Acclimate And Root Before I Share It, She’s Just So Perfectly Mermaid-Shaped
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#30 Found This Fasciated Silver Celosia Today At The Garden Center
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#31 The Corn I Harvested Today Is Looking Freshly Mutated
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#32 Crested Maria
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#33 Fasciated Lemon On My Tree
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#34 Crested Echeveria Lemon Rose
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#35 Growing Stable. My Crested Echeveria Minibelle
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#36 This Fabulous Example Of Fasciation In An Agave Plant Is A Real Monster Nightmare
Image source: BotanicsMan
#37 Double Banana? Double Egg Yolk? How About This Here Triple Kiwi
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#38 Absolutely Fasciated By This Eggplant
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#39 My Crested Favorite. It’s Called Echeveria Lincoln Frost, Got It Two And A Half Years Ago
He was small and blue, but my grow lights have produced this lovely peach stress color which I love!
Image source: EvilTriffid
#40 Mermaid Tail With Lots Of Character
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#41 Giant Echium With Fasciation In My Friend’s Back Yard On Northern California Coast
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#42 Fasciation Is A Common Occurrence In Plants But A Bromeliad Inflorescence Is A 1st For Me
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#43 I Have A Mutant Dandelion With 8 Flowers All In One Stem
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#44 Meet Sunny, My Mutant Buddy
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#45 My Friend Grew This Fasciated Cucumber
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#46 Euphorbia Susannae Crest Is Growing Like Crazy And Getting More Wrinkled
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#47 My Crested Garden Succulent
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#48 Friend At Work Grew This Freak Asparagus
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#49 What Happened To This Zucchini
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#50 That’s A Buttercup
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#51 My Mutant Strawberry
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