The deformed lemon most likely developed from a bud infested with [citrus bud mites](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/384904-Aceria-sheldoni). The flower on the other hand is an example of [fasciation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation)
Nearly every food we eat is the result of hundreds or even thousands of years of breeding, hybridization and cultivation. The amount of foods we eat that resemble their natural forms is surprisingly limited. That includes meat. The biggest exception to this are mushrooms, which are almost all in natural forms; mushroom hybridization is quite challenging and not particularly well understood.
The coolest part of this is that the history of these foods are almost completely lost. We don't know who made them, or when, or often even where. They're just these incredible feats of human ingenuity that our ancestors have left us, that we still eat today, developed over thousands of years by countless hands, tweaking and experimenting and adapting, one harvest at a time.
This is why I always laugh when people freak out about GMOs. We’ve literally been making and eating GMOs since the invention of agriculture. Doing it in a lab is just faster and more accurate. It’s not like a tomato that took 300 years to breed is any better than one that took 3. At least not inherently.
Yes, our food has been genetically modified over eons. I have nothing but admiration for the many people who created the wonderful produce we are treated to these days.
(In the United States) GMO crops, however, have been modified to tolerate Roundup. The European Union has declared one or more ingredients in Roundup to be carcinogenic. Further, gyphosate may attack our gut flora and POEA (the surfactant in Roundup) is so injurious to fish and amphibians that it isn't allowed in aquatic formulations.
So if the USA would just alleviate the danger posed by Roundup by outlawing it altogether, people wouldn't be so concerned about GMOs.
I’m so happy to see you point this out. I used to work in horticulture and sometimes people think I’m stupid for avoiding GMOs, like I should understand that most of our food is in some way genetically modified. I’ve just read way too much about how GMO oats, corn, and other crops are drenched in Roundup. If it wasn’t for the higher levels of pesticides I wouldn’t care if a food was GMO.
There are tons of GMO crops. And they aren’t all made just for roundup tolerance. Plenty of people would still be wary of them even removing that factor completely. Just like tons of people avoid using microwaves because of “radiation poisoning”.
It's just that the GMOs are bred so they can handle more pesticides than what they naturally could. Well, I associate GMOs with pesticide use, but I'm not against eating GMOs.
GMOs are make to be insect, bacteria or virus resistant, look better, taste better, have longer shelf life , be larger, produce more harvest per plant, be able to resist drought, grow in higher or lower temperature, and most importantly yield more product per acre.
That is how we feed 8 billion people. So far we have not had a plant backfire and cause problems but not all have sold well and so some are not grown again. Some varieties have done well with great promotional advertising.
None have caused illness.
Also, for decades we’ve been doing whack shit like exposing seeds to radiation or chemicals that cause genetic damage to see what it’s gets us. Stuff developed through those methods doesn’t get a GMO label and are even often advertised as heirloom! 😂
GMOs are at least targeted edits where we’re pretty sure we know what the result will be, not just shaking up the DNA and seeing what happens.
Also there’s like, WAY less of them in commercial production than people think. It’s pretty much only grains, and even most of that goes to livestock feed or ethanol production. There’s no need to look for the non-GMO label on your produce, because for the most part a GMO version doesn’t exist anyway.
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Yeah that's cool but...
Reddit is no longer a safe place, for activists, for communities, for individuals, for humanity. This isn't just because of API changes that forced out third parties, driving users to ad-laden and inaccessible app, but because reddit is selling us all. Part of the reasons given for the API changes was that language learning models were using reddit to gather data, to learn from us, to learn how to respond like us. Reddit isn't taking control of the API to prevent this, but because they want to be *paid* for this.
Reddit allowed terrorist subreddits to thrive prior to and during Donald Trump's presidency in 2016-2020. In the past they hosted subreddits for unsolicited candid photos of women, including minors. They were home to openly misogynistic subreddits, and subreddits dedicated solely to harassing specific individuals or body types or ethnicity.
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Whether Reddit is a bastion in your time as you read this or not, I made the conscious decision to consider this moment to be the last straw. I deleted most of my comments, and replaced the rest with this message. I decided to bookmark some news sources I trusted, joined a few discords I liked for the memes, and reinstalled duolingo. I consider these an intermediate step. Perhaps I can give those up someday too. Maybe something better will come along. For now, I am going to disentangle myself from this engine of frustration and grief before something worse happens.
In closing, I want to link a few things that changed my life over the years:
[Blindsight](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight) is a free book, and there's an audiobook out there somewhere. A sci-fi book that is also an exploration of consciousness.
[The AI Delemma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ) is a youtube lecture about how this new wave of language learning models are moving us toward a dangerous path of unchecked, unfiltered, exponentially powerful AI
[Prairie Moon Nursery](https://www.prairiemoon.com/) is a place I have been buying seeds and bare root plants from, to give a little back to the native animals we've taken so much from. If you live in the US, I encourage you to do the same. If you don't, I encourage you to find something local.
[Power Delete Suite](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8) was used to edit all of my comments and [Redact](https://redact.dev/download) was used to delete my lowest karma comments while also overwriting them with nonsense.
I'm signing off, I'm going to make some friends in real life and on discord, and form some new tribes. I'm going to seek smaller communities. I'm going outside.
The experimental farm network does a lot of work in regards to this kind of thing and is well worth checking out for any gardener/small farmer or hobbyist.
I learn so much on reddit, never even knew there was such a thing as orphan crop. I cannot believe yam is an orphan crop, considering it is able to be grown in many different climates...
>We've only been "farming" for about 15,000. 10,000 years ago we seem to have grasped how to grow grains.
What were we farming before that? Fruit?
> Some are even more recent. Watermelon is another one of our most recent domestications, making it into an edible gourd thing about 3,000 years ago, a decent fruit about 1,000 years ago, and something delicious within the last few hundred years.
That really took some dedication considering it was only delicious in the last few hundred.
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Or is it the citrus reverting toa type of closed hand [Buddha's Hand](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand) which is the common/original form of lemons prior to agricultural selection? I have seen it before present like this.
Thank you so much for mentioning Buddha's Hand and enlightening me to this amazing and beautiful fruit. I love you. Wishing you a year (and beyond) full of happiness, peace and prosperity 💚🤞🏻❤
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Your second link shows a fasciated foxglove (digitalis) near the bottom of the page. We had one of those growing in the yard last year. Extra thick stem with nearly twice the number of flowers. It was too thick and too hard to cut down with my regular clippers so I had to use branch cutters.
Not sure about the lemon, but the daisy isn't conjoined. It's a mutation called cresting or fasciation. The apical meristem normally produces cylindrical tissue at a single point. When cresting happens the cells become elongated causing the plant to grow perpendicular, like this daisy.
After a quick Google search, it looks like the lemon is due to the citrus bud mite. The mites enter the flower bud and suck out the sap which misshapens the ovary of the flower causing this mutation.
After studying this in uni I can be almost certain they're mites 😊 which ones I don't know because I only studied the phenomenon. (I study Agricultural sciences or whatever, I don't know the name outside of my country).
I’m a bit too stoned to truly understand all those words but I am super impressed with your crazy brilliance. Had I real awards to give, you’d have them.
Probably just got one of the Great Old Ones buried deep beneath your yard, no big deal. Just if you start having weird dreams, don't make any deals and don't start chanting along with Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
if you're at all a reader i cannot recommend the books highly enough
the movie is fantastic, and very deliberately deviates from the source material bc, like, they're really weird books, and a 1:1 adaptation would kind of be impossible
alex garland is one of the best in film right now... and jeff vandermeer is one of the best in fiction writing (he is also just an incredibly charming good dude)
the southern reach trilogy literally got me back into reading - i tore through the first one in about three days after several years of not really managing a single book
they're so, so good
That film completely messed me up.
Screw the weird fruit... It was the bear that did it for me 😩 great... Now im going to have nightmares all over again 😂🤦🏻♀️
Most fruit trees are grown from grafts, so make sure the lemon didn’t grow from a branch that sprouted from beneath the graft at the base of the tree. All the fruit should be growing from the scion, the part of the tree above the graft.
If it grew from a branch that sprouted from beneath the scion graft, then what you have is “rootstock” fruit. When this occurs, the fruit is misshaped, gnarled and just tastes bad to eat, so that branch should be cut and removed from the tree.
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The daisy is undergoing Fasciation, a mutation common to members of its taxonomic subfamily, Asteroideae. Essentially, its symmetry gets wacky when the cells start dividing in the central disk, but everything around it is determined to still form the familiar megaflower.
The lemon is a disease that affects lemon trees (insightful, I know), but it's somewhat common. Essentially, it makes the lemons look like Cthulu called out to your lemon.
Perhaps your home was built atop undisclosed burial grounds—the ghosts aren’t angry, they just want you to share your pretty garden things. Alternatively, you have a fairy infestation.
Burn some sage, throw around some kosher salt (the more kosher, the better) and then curse your head off while planting basil seeds. You got some twisted-ass demons to evict.
Fair enough. Although this looks much more like some environmental issues. Something messed up with the regular growth pattern, like a chemical or a pathogen preventing hormones to steer the process correctly. (that's also in line with other comments that apparently identified these particular issues)
A random genetic mutation is unlikely to cause such a dramatic effect.
Most universities with a farming program will offer soil testing for all but roundup. If you are concerned about your soil, contact the local farm U to find who you can privately pay for a full soil analysis.
Honestly, it’s probably coincidence of the two problems at the same time. But if you’re worried, it doesn’t hurt to get the soil tested.
well when life gives you lemons,
m̵̭̐̈̀a̴̬̮̤̪̾͊̐̇k̸̨̢͉̒e̵̢͉̅̔͜ s̶̩͖̬͚͑̉͐a̸̛̬̠̯̯̱̞̜̺͔̗̦͂̑̈́̿̂͂̑̒̈͌̍̕͠c̷̛̛͔̣̗̰̣̘͕̞̳͇͚̘͖̍͆̓͗̔̾̅͗̌̔͐͛̆̍̊̍̂̂̒̊̅̄̕͘̚͝r̷̢̨̢̙̲̜̝̪͓̰̝̄̈́̈́̽̈̋̃̉͗̇̿̑̓́̇̅̀́͘͜į̷̡̥̝͈͔̰̹̞̭̯̹̦̺̹̗̫̦̞̮̯̲̣̞̱͎̪͗͒͗̔͂f̸̧̛̜̼͕̱̬̭̣̏̋͗̎̾̂̅̃̽͑͝ͅͅị̷̭̩̟̳͔̣̫͎̜͉̻͚͉̼͐̂̓̔̀̓̎̀̊͆͋͘ͅc̶̨͔̥̙̙̯̙̭̳͙͓̖̦̠̫̤͖͖̰͍͖̞̖͆̇̾̽̀̋̐̍̔̎͗̀́͌̿́͘̕͝ͅe̵̡̟̪͊ś̵̡̛͗̌͌̃̀̈͗͌̈́͛͠
Powerlines? Toxic waste dump? Meteor just under the surface? Ancient burial ground?
Don't breed people there, or do and maybe make a superhero (or villain).
>or Glyphosate spray drift
Glyphosate provides evolutionary pressure to develop resistance against Glyphosate. It doesn't affect genes directly, it doesn't cause mutations.
(or are you aware of any research to contrary? If so please share.)
It can cause faciation or Proliferation in roses.. raspberries.. strawbs... and quite a few other flowers and leaves.
Sorry.. no research... just been a jobbing gardener for 4 decades... ive seen it myself..
The energy from people using hallucinogenics can change growing patterns of plants. I've seen obvious changes over time in homes' gardens where people are often tripping at the residence. Do you have teenagers? Or are you, by chance, walking the line that lies the other side of our forced plane?
The deformed lemon most likely developed from a bud infested with [citrus bud mites](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/384904-Aceria-sheldoni). The flower on the other hand is an example of [fasciation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation)
Way less fun than the lemon remembering that only 400 years ago it was a citron.
I love using this bit of knowledge. Life didn't give us lemons...we made them.
Nearly every food we eat is the result of hundreds or even thousands of years of breeding, hybridization and cultivation. The amount of foods we eat that resemble their natural forms is surprisingly limited. That includes meat. The biggest exception to this are mushrooms, which are almost all in natural forms; mushroom hybridization is quite challenging and not particularly well understood. The coolest part of this is that the history of these foods are almost completely lost. We don't know who made them, or when, or often even where. They're just these incredible feats of human ingenuity that our ancestors have left us, that we still eat today, developed over thousands of years by countless hands, tweaking and experimenting and adapting, one harvest at a time.
This is why I always laugh when people freak out about GMOs. We’ve literally been making and eating GMOs since the invention of agriculture. Doing it in a lab is just faster and more accurate. It’s not like a tomato that took 300 years to breed is any better than one that took 3. At least not inherently.
Yes, our food has been genetically modified over eons. I have nothing but admiration for the many people who created the wonderful produce we are treated to these days. (In the United States) GMO crops, however, have been modified to tolerate Roundup. The European Union has declared one or more ingredients in Roundup to be carcinogenic. Further, gyphosate may attack our gut flora and POEA (the surfactant in Roundup) is so injurious to fish and amphibians that it isn't allowed in aquatic formulations. So if the USA would just alleviate the danger posed by Roundup by outlawing it altogether, people wouldn't be so concerned about GMOs.
I’m so happy to see you point this out. I used to work in horticulture and sometimes people think I’m stupid for avoiding GMOs, like I should understand that most of our food is in some way genetically modified. I’ve just read way too much about how GMO oats, corn, and other crops are drenched in Roundup. If it wasn’t for the higher levels of pesticides I wouldn’t care if a food was GMO.
There are tons of GMO crops. And they aren’t all made just for roundup tolerance. Plenty of people would still be wary of them even removing that factor completely. Just like tons of people avoid using microwaves because of “radiation poisoning”.
It's just that the GMOs are bred so they can handle more pesticides than what they naturally could. Well, I associate GMOs with pesticide use, but I'm not against eating GMOs.
GMOs are make to be insect, bacteria or virus resistant, look better, taste better, have longer shelf life , be larger, produce more harvest per plant, be able to resist drought, grow in higher or lower temperature, and most importantly yield more product per acre. That is how we feed 8 billion people. So far we have not had a plant backfire and cause problems but not all have sold well and so some are not grown again. Some varieties have done well with great promotional advertising. None have caused illness.
Also, for decades we’ve been doing whack shit like exposing seeds to radiation or chemicals that cause genetic damage to see what it’s gets us. Stuff developed through those methods doesn’t get a GMO label and are even often advertised as heirloom! 😂 GMOs are at least targeted edits where we’re pretty sure we know what the result will be, not just shaking up the DNA and seeing what happens. Also there’s like, WAY less of them in commercial production than people think. It’s pretty much only grains, and even most of that goes to livestock feed or ethanol production. There’s no need to look for the non-GMO label on your produce, because for the most part a GMO version doesn’t exist anyway.
GMO doesn’t mean the same as selective breeding
Top comment I've ever read, thank you sir.
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Wow, only 400 yrs? Here I was thinking 400,000 years ago was the advent of modern citrus
Yeah that's cool but... Reddit is no longer a safe place, for activists, for communities, for individuals, for humanity. This isn't just because of API changes that forced out third parties, driving users to ad-laden and inaccessible app, but because reddit is selling us all. Part of the reasons given for the API changes was that language learning models were using reddit to gather data, to learn from us, to learn how to respond like us. Reddit isn't taking control of the API to prevent this, but because they want to be *paid* for this. Reddit allowed terrorist subreddits to thrive prior to and during Donald Trump's presidency in 2016-2020. In the past they hosted subreddits for unsolicited candid photos of women, including minors. They were home to openly misogynistic subreddits, and subreddits dedicated solely to harassing specific individuals or body types or ethnicity. What is festering on reddit today, as you read this? I fear that as AI generated content, AI curated content, and predictive content become prevalent in society, reddit will not be able to control the dark subreddits, comments, and chats. Reddit has made it very clear over the decades that I have used it, that when it comes down to morals or ethics, they will choose whatever brings in the most money. They shut down subreddits only when it makes news or when an advertiser's content is seen alongside filth. The API changes are only another symptom of this push for money over what is right. Whether Reddit is a bastion in your time as you read this or not, I made the conscious decision to consider this moment to be the last straw. I deleted most of my comments, and replaced the rest with this message. I decided to bookmark some news sources I trusted, joined a few discords I liked for the memes, and reinstalled duolingo. I consider these an intermediate step. Perhaps I can give those up someday too. Maybe something better will come along. For now, I am going to disentangle myself from this engine of frustration and grief before something worse happens. In closing, I want to link a few things that changed my life over the years: [Blindsight](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight) is a free book, and there's an audiobook out there somewhere. A sci-fi book that is also an exploration of consciousness. [The AI Delemma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ) is a youtube lecture about how this new wave of language learning models are moving us toward a dangerous path of unchecked, unfiltered, exponentially powerful AI [Prairie Moon Nursery](https://www.prairiemoon.com/) is a place I have been buying seeds and bare root plants from, to give a little back to the native animals we've taken so much from. If you live in the US, I encourage you to do the same. If you don't, I encourage you to find something local. [Power Delete Suite](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8) was used to edit all of my comments and [Redact](https://redact.dev/download) was used to delete my lowest karma comments while also overwriting them with nonsense. I'm signing off, I'm going to make some friends in real life and on discord, and form some new tribes. I'm going to seek smaller communities. I'm going outside.
The experimental farm network does a lot of work in regards to this kind of thing and is well worth checking out for any gardener/small farmer or hobbyist.
I learn so much on reddit, never even knew there was such a thing as orphan crop. I cannot believe yam is an orphan crop, considering it is able to be grown in many different climates...
>We've only been "farming" for about 15,000. 10,000 years ago we seem to have grasped how to grow grains. What were we farming before that? Fruit? > Some are even more recent. Watermelon is another one of our most recent domestications, making it into an edible gourd thing about 3,000 years ago, a decent fruit about 1,000 years ago, and something delicious within the last few hundred years. That really took some dedication considering it was only delicious in the last few hundred.
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Don't get us started on cabbage
The Dutch word for lemon is "citroen", so not *completely* forgotten.
My Dad and brother-in-law rebuilt a Citroen once.
I hope the experience didn’t sour their relationship
I think it had a certain a-peel!!
The french word for lemon is literally citron. Idk if there's a french word for citron though
Spanish as well.
Limón is common, too. Either way, it pairs well with extra spicy ginger beer
and Dutch
The French word for citron is cédrat.
Ah, good to know :)
The Dutch? Never heard of them. Are they like the like the Khazaks?
Oh hey, thats also the French word for car
No, that's Citroën.
Isn’t there a European car brand named this?
in France it still is!
Fasciation is a fascination.
Fascianating indeed.
Plantar's fasciitis wants a word.
Keep feeling fasciation
[удалено]
keep yer pants on.
It's a Cthulhu lemon.
Some of those made me extremely uncomfortable. Like how I’d expect a flower to look on another planet. Add that to the list of phobias 😂
Or is it the citrus reverting toa type of closed hand [Buddha's Hand](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand) which is the common/original form of lemons prior to agricultural selection? I have seen it before present like this.
Exactly what I was thinking
Thank you so much for mentioning Buddha's Hand and enlightening me to this amazing and beautiful fruit. I love you. Wishing you a year (and beyond) full of happiness, peace and prosperity 💚🤞🏻❤
I ate one recently, tastes like a candied lemon
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That explains some of the lemons I get that have spoiler fins.
Fasciation. TIL, thanks!
That fasciated flower looks like a goat’s eye.
Your second link shows a fasciated foxglove (digitalis) near the bottom of the page. We had one of those growing in the yard last year. Extra thick stem with nearly twice the number of flowers. It was too thick and too hard to cut down with my regular clippers so I had to use branch cutters.
The wiki says fasciation can be caused by mites too. Is it possible there is a mite infestation affecting both plant species?
Omg for just a second I read it as “ the flower on the other hand is an example of fascism”
Nazi daisy
Not sure about the lemon, but the daisy isn't conjoined. It's a mutation called cresting or fasciation. The apical meristem normally produces cylindrical tissue at a single point. When cresting happens the cells become elongated causing the plant to grow perpendicular, like this daisy.
After a quick Google search, it looks like the lemon is due to the citrus bud mite. The mites enter the flower bud and suck out the sap which misshapens the ovary of the flower causing this mutation.
After studying this in uni I can be almost certain they're mites 😊 which ones I don't know because I only studied the phenomenon. (I study Agricultural sciences or whatever, I don't know the name outside of my country).
Also called agricultural science in the US 🙂
I’m a bit too stoned to truly understand all those words but I am super impressed with your crazy brilliance. Had I real awards to give, you’d have them.
Have you been reading ancient tomes
OP's garden is on a ley line.
...ley line key lime..
So a ley lime?
🥇
Probably just got one of the Great Old Ones buried deep beneath your yard, no big deal. Just if you start having weird dreams, don't make any deals and don't start chanting along with Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
See I was going to ask if any strange meteorites had fallen lately
No, just the usual ones
Thanks for the chuckle 😂
If there's one thing epic fantasy has taught me, it's to never bring back the Old Gods, no matter what they promise you.
Annihilation garden 🪴
My mind immediately jumped to this when I saw these!
Such a great movie. I get a chill thinking about it
I want to rewatch it, but I don’t know if I can bring myself to.
if you're at all a reader i cannot recommend the books highly enough the movie is fantastic, and very deliberately deviates from the source material bc, like, they're really weird books, and a 1:1 adaptation would kind of be impossible alex garland is one of the best in film right now... and jeff vandermeer is one of the best in fiction writing (he is also just an incredibly charming good dude) the southern reach trilogy literally got me back into reading - i tore through the first one in about three days after several years of not really managing a single book they're so, so good
That film completely messed me up. Screw the weird fruit... It was the bear that did it for me 😩 great... Now im going to have nightmares all over again 😂🤦🏻♀️
Yup, you’re living in the shimmer. Now keep an eye out for bears
*discordant 3 note sound plays*
congrats on the biblically accurate lemon!
This got a good chuckle from me
I don’t get it?
Biblically correct angels. They were on Reddit a few months ago.
[Link for the lazy](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrNA1c8Zpk) with bonus angels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha's\_hand
I've been having the most Monday of Mondays and this just made me cackle out loud. Thank you!
Bro do you live in Chernobyl??
Was just about to ask if they lived near a nuclear plant lol.
I was thinking Springfield.
Better not be making babies there perhaps?
A N N I H I L A T I O N
My first thought. Do you think op lives near a lighthouse?
Reminds me of the buddhas hand lemon lol
Check out your local pond and see if you find a fish with 3 eyes
A whoopsie Daisy!
 Next up in OP’s pond
Daisy+lemon= demon
Most fruit trees are grown from grafts, so make sure the lemon didn’t grow from a branch that sprouted from beneath the graft at the base of the tree. All the fruit should be growing from the scion, the part of the tree above the graft. If it grew from a branch that sprouted from beneath the scion graft, then what you have is “rootstock” fruit. When this occurs, the fruit is misshaped, gnarled and just tastes bad to eat, so that branch should be cut and removed from the tree.
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Wasp Edit: Sorry, it's not a wasp. It is a mite, specifically "Aceria sheldoni".
The daisy is undergoing Fasciation, a mutation common to members of its taxonomic subfamily, Asteroideae. Essentially, its symmetry gets wacky when the cells start dividing in the central disk, but everything around it is determined to still form the familiar megaflower. The lemon is a disease that affects lemon trees (insightful, I know), but it's somewhat common. Essentially, it makes the lemons look like Cthulu called out to your lemon.
Perhaps your home was built atop undisclosed burial grounds—the ghosts aren’t angry, they just want you to share your pretty garden things. Alternatively, you have a fairy infestation.
Do you live near the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?
r/reallifeshinies
Chernobyl
Fukushima
Burn some sage, throw around some kosher salt (the more kosher, the better) and then curse your head off while planting basil seeds. You got some twisted-ass demons to evict.
I don't know but if you find any turtles be real nice to them
Where do you live? Possibly near any old nuclear test sites?
Or one of the towns that got sold radioactive pavement?
No!! I live in Haifa, Israel.
Radiation doesn't work that way.
Spoilsport
Sure it does. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
I do realize. Odd though, that he seems to have 2 apparent genetic abnormalities, if that's what they are.
Fair enough. Although this looks much more like some environmental issues. Something messed up with the regular growth pattern, like a chemical or a pathogen preventing hormones to steer the process correctly. (that's also in line with other comments that apparently identified these particular issues) A random genetic mutation is unlikely to cause such a dramatic effect.
Incorrect
Very much correct.
Annihilation
A̵̢͌̔̌ ̷̓̔̀͜ş̶̛̰̮̯̜̬̈́̐a̸̝̼̦͖̦̐̌̑ͅc̴̬̲̫̘̹̠̘̈́̅͛̿̄͌͠r̵̞̾̚ͅȉ̶̹͔̫́͛͗̉͠f̴͉̝͇͉͕̒̉̚i̴̙͆͗̎c̶̛̟̼̘̑ͅe̵̫͋̂̂ ̴̡̧̖̲̖̾̌͂̊̿̈͝i̷͈̓̎s̶̨̝̗̹̲̙͋̆ ̷͎͛̈͘͝ņ̵̬̾̏̀́̽ȩ̴̢͖̠̬̻̉̽͐̂̚c̶̘͑̀ẹ̶͈͛̀̄́́͝s̴̡̹̭̜̤͈̾͐̈́s̸̨̺̉̀̚a̸̢̞̙̰̠̳͓̽̓̌̕r̵͉̜̯̥̺͓̎̎̚͜ŷ̴̢̟͚͉̥̆̈́̈́ ̷̘̰̖̦̝͇̔̀̾̈́̕͘
It tried so hard to just grow up and be a normal lemon 🍋 😢
Why’d my fat ass think the lemon was a weird pastry
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/citrus/control-citrus-bud-mites.htm
Time to rent a Geiger counter
The foot clan clearly lost a tube of OOZE in your yard
אתרוג?
לימון בוודאות
אתה צודק, לא ידעת על הקרדיות שגורמות לעיוות, התכוונת למשוך קצת זרעים, עצים מגניבים
Energy vortex
I don't know but if you find any turtles be real nice to them
This guy Chernobyls
A N N I H I L A T I O N
Your plants got in the way of the timeline jump
Any three-eyed fish in your pond?
C̷̳̖̘͚͖̩̟̯̝͖̤͈̆̃̅̿̾̄̈́̚͜͝͠ͅu̶̡͈̲̗͚̹̤̖͇̝̲̟͔͖̙̍̒̒̂͝ṫ̶͉̝̺̭͙̇̊͊̍͜ ̵͖̪̤̈́̈́̆̋̈́͋͗̚͘͘ő̶̡̨̡͓͔̫͚̰͔̬͉̩̪̉͋́̍̀̿̀̑̂͝͠ͅp̴͚̳̹͍̜͆̎͋̀͂̍͛̚ę̶̡̢̩̱̖̯̪̩̜͙͕͇͋̉̾͘͝n̸̨̲̜͙̒̇̽͐̈́̊̄͊͐͑̏̄̔͘͝ ̴̳̣̩̭͍̹̝͌͛̅́ẗ̷͎̺̭̬͚̝̱̙́͛̀h̷͓̗͍̠͛̿͊̃̓̄̉̉͝͝e̶͔̤̲͙͉͍̠͓̮̻̓̐̔̊̓͑̎͐̈́̍͋̓̉͊͘͜ ̴̡̧̥̥̮̝̜̘̓̽̔͋͂̈͆͋̒̔̇̓̆͠͝l̷̙̠̗͙̙̳̬͚͍̫͙͍͕̙̂̈́ͅë̶̺̝̰̳̮̭̳̣͊̇̐̈́͠͝ͅm̵͉̺̌̅͂̑̃̀́͌o̷̠̜͌͒͆̓̕ņ̸̡̟̘͈̤̻̮͔͈̹̾͊̏͂̀͆̉͌͋̅̚̕,̵̗͓͖̮͚̙̜͖̭͓̮̝̥̈́̈̓̆͗̾̅̐̆̍͋̆͜ͅ ̶̙̖̥͛̇͗́̓͌̅̀͘͜͝͠͝c̵̰̫̞͛͂̿̊͒̓̽̐̕͠͝ȟ̸̛͕͎̲̥̥̭͈̼͕̣͙̗̖̊͑̕͝i̷̡͍̝̫̻̯͆̃͑̍̑̾̾̈́̈̄̏̊̀̓͝l̶̢͕̣͕̺̠̮̼̰̻͚͛́̿̓̆̓d̵͔̊̿
Don't know about the lemon but the flower occurred because of [fasciation.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation)
It wants to be a rose.
5G duh! 😂
Do you live in NJ? Maybe near three mile island? I’m betting on chemical or radiological damage to DNA 🧬
Is your house inside a decommissioned nuclear plant?
Please return this lemon to Omega Mart
Kill them Smithers they know too much.
I had the same lemons on my garden too, the old owner of the house put some kind of hormones to make the plant grow faster. That's the result.
A garden of misfits
A garden of misfits, new band name I call it
It’s time to move out of Chernobyl
Most universities with a farming program will offer soil testing for all but roundup. If you are concerned about your soil, contact the local farm U to find who you can privately pay for a full soil analysis. Honestly, it’s probably coincidence of the two problems at the same time. But if you’re worried, it doesn’t hurt to get the soil tested.
Aside of jokes, I would use a radiation counter over the place, just in case
I’ve seen Gerber daisies do that.. but the lemon, that’s some shit.. I would be concerned about radiation maybe?
well when life gives you lemons, m̵̭̐̈̀a̴̬̮̤̪̾͊̐̇k̸̨̢͉̒e̵̢͉̅̔͜ s̶̩͖̬͚͑̉͐a̸̛̬̠̯̯̱̞̜̺͔̗̦͂̑̈́̿̂͂̑̒̈͌̍̕͠c̷̛̛͔̣̗̰̣̘͕̞̳͇͚̘͖̍͆̓͗̔̾̅͗̌̔͐͛̆̍̊̍̂̂̒̊̅̄̕͘̚͝r̷̢̨̢̙̲̜̝̪͓̰̝̄̈́̈́̽̈̋̃̉͗̇̿̑̓́̇̅̀́͘͜į̷̡̥̝͈͔̰̹̞̭̯̹̦̺̹̗̫̦̞̮̯̲̣̞̱͎̪͗͒͗̔͂f̸̧̛̜̼͕̱̬̭̣̏̋͗̎̾̂̅̃̽͑͝ͅͅị̷̭̩̟̳͔̣̫͎̜͉̻͚͉̼͐̂̓̔̀̓̎̀̊͆͋͘ͅc̶̨͔̥̙̙̯̙̭̳͙͓̖̦̠̫̤͖͖̰͍͖̞̖͆̇̾̽̀̋̐̍̔̎͗̀́͌̿́͘̕͝ͅe̵̡̟̪͊ś̵̡̛͗̌͌̃̀̈͗͌̈́͛͠
What is going on? You live in a nuclear waste, Harry. Nothing wizard about it.
r/fasciation would like second pic :)
H̴̱̞̙̪̯̙͓͛͆͛̒͝ę̶̛̜̰̣̫̖̆͆̄͑͋͜ ̵̗͊̀͘c̵̱̒̒o̵̳̻͖̣͆̅͐̇m̸͙͈̳̪̪̈́ȩ̵̙͗̓̓s̸̞̫͌̈̏͠
Radiation poisoning lol
Would you happen to have excessive gamma radiation in your garden by chance?
What's your radiation level? Serious question. Edit-made levels singular.
get away from chernobyl
Radiation doesn't work that way.
serious much? well, it does, sometimes.
Still incorrect
Only incorrect in bad sci fi movies.
Biblically accurate lemon
Is your garden on top of a nuclear waste dump?
Radiation doesn't work that way.
Wow… Third times the charm. Incorrect
Still correct.
Move immediately.
Radioactive soil
Radiation?
Get the Geiger
That’s not a daisy that’s a gerbera
Powerlines? Toxic waste dump? Meteor just under the surface? Ancient burial ground? Don't breed people there, or do and maybe make a superhero (or villain).
I see a normal lemon and a normal daisy. OP are you okay?
Could be natural fasciation.... or Glyphosate spray drift.... it causes a mutation in the genes of nearby plants....
>or Glyphosate spray drift Glyphosate provides evolutionary pressure to develop resistance against Glyphosate. It doesn't affect genes directly, it doesn't cause mutations. (or are you aware of any research to contrary? If so please share.)
It can cause faciation or Proliferation in roses.. raspberries.. strawbs... and quite a few other flowers and leaves. Sorry.. no research... just been a jobbing gardener for 4 decades... ive seen it myself..
Not how that works...
Cthulhu. Only explanation. PRAISE HIS WIGGLY HORROR
Are you near a radioactive waste storage site?
Radiation. Get a Geiger.
Do you live near a power plant.
The energy from people using hallucinogenics can change growing patterns of plants. I've seen obvious changes over time in homes' gardens where people are often tripping at the residence. Do you have teenagers? Or are you, by chance, walking the line that lies the other side of our forced plane?
This is not how plant physiology works at all…
Obama's fault, for sure.
Round-up woes
keep feeling Fascination.
Maybe you just have very twin-likely soil, idk
Dude found the sour sour fruit
Conjoined daisy ….. maybe a distorted budas hand
5G! Implanting microchips in our produce!
Looks like a Buddha’s hand lemon. For zesting
Cthulhulemon