If you’ve ever eaten a freshly grown tomato from a local farmers market, you know how anomalous and quirky natural plants can look. But this time, we’re taking the oddness of Mother Nature to a whole new level.
Please meet the aliens of the plant kingdom that resemble little creatures you’d see in Ridley Scott’s movie. This is due to a condition known as vivipary, which basically, and now you may hold tight, refers to “live birth” in Latin. And it means precisely what it sounds like—it’s when the seeds start germinating while still attached to the mother plant.
So let’s dive into the fascinating world of vivipary in plants as compiled by Bored Panda, so we all know what gardeners’ nightmares are made of, and the next time you eat your lovely salad, don’t take it for granted.
#1 Mutant! My Sunflower Has Had An Unconventional Baby
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#2 This Tomato Sprouting Its Seeds
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#3 Friend Of Mine Found An Apple With An Apple Tree Growing Out Of It
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#4 Sprouting Strawberries? How Can I Fix This?
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#5 An Avocado Tree Was Starting To Grow Inside My Avocado
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#6 Noticed Something That Looked Like A Worm In My Apple. Upon Further Inspection, It Turned Out To Be The Seeds Inside Sprouting
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#7 Forgot About This Tomato While On Vacation And It Sprouted
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#8 This Strawberry’s Seeds Started Sprouting While It Was Still On The Plant
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#9 Vivipary (Premature Germination) Of Corn Kernels. This Condition Is Most Likely To Occur When Kernels Have Dried Down To 20% Moisture Or Less And Are Then Rewetted By Rains
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#10 This Bell Pepper Has Other Bell Peppers Growing Inside Of It
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#11 Live Birth
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#12 The Seeds In My Butternut Squash Were Sprouting On The Inside
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#13 My Tomato’s Seeds Have Started To Sprout From The Inside
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#14 I Find These Wonders Of Nature Often On My Plate
Just as I was about to gobble up these pomegranate seeds I saw some green sticking to one of the seeds and thought it could be the coriander greens I was handling the same time I peeled the pomegranate. But it turned out to be a sprouting seed, a fine example of viviparous behaviour. I have experienced in earlier in papaya, many citrus fruits, tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelon and even mangoes
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#15 Mango Pit Began To Grow Into A Tree, While Still Inside The Mango (Full Branch Visible)
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#16 How Vivipary Is Happened In The Given Picture Of Mangifera Indica, Showing Emerges Of Seedling After Germination While The Fruit Still Attached With Mother Plant Identify This Abonormality……
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#17 Found A Sprouting Seed In My Tangerine
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#18 A Cute Mutated Sunflower
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#19 My Grapefruit Started Sprouting Inside Itself
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#20 The Seeds In This Tomato Started Sprouting
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#21 I May Have Left This Butternut Squash In The Field Too Long
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#22 Plants Are Amazing. Also Corn Is Bae
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#23 I’ll Pass On Eating This Prego Tomato
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#24 Why Does This Eggplant Look So Unusual?
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#25 Nature Is Amazing
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#26 This Strawberries Seeds Have Started Sprouting
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#27 A Tomato Growing More Tomatoes.
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#28 I Just Opened This Butternut Squash And Found This Amazing Phenomena That I Never Thought I Would Ever See
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#29 The Wonders Of Plant Vivipary
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#30 Vivipary
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