If a tomato runs out of the hormone that keeps seeds dormant, they may start sprouting from inside the fruit
(this is called vivipary)🍅

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This is existentially terrifying.

No thanks.

Just put some copper up there, that’ll fix it.

:''(

Excuse toi?

Is this the tomato girl fantasy??

Reminds me of the hanahaki disease trope

Mind blown. Are those ... seeds? Sprouting? Out of my head???

I thought this was all about fun and bolognese. Little did I know.

I mean, ectopic pregnancy is that concept, roughly, but real. Baby growing where baby cannot grow.

no but it's from the same artist ;-)

Dandelion ahh fetuses

!morphmoe@ani.social is leaking.

funny coincidence that my dad just mentioned this particular tomato quirk earlier today.

Something tells me I shouldn't look this up

edit: oh, it's fictional

That tomato is pregnant in human terms, technically.

maybe i am your dad? Hi John

Haploid babies?

This is basically what happens to Radek in Annihilation (2018).

The artist Feefal is also on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/feefal

Fictional but aesthetically beautiful.

.... If you ignore the agonising screams

Someone should draw something similar for corn smut (a parasitic fungus that infects maize kernels).

thank you but fuck tumblr. that site is despicable garbage. they ask you to log in after scrolling for like 5 posts.

Agree that tumblr sucks, but if you can find a public instance of (or self-host) priviblur it's much more tolerable.

I mean, in human terms, that tomato is a bloated uterus, already filled with zygotes and amniotic fluid.

This reinforces the myth that babies come from sperm. But babies come almost completely from the egg (cytoplasm, membrane, all of the organelles, as much genetic code than sperm, nutrients).

So guess what, you don't have to imagine ovarian pregnancy because it's real!

Edit: Happens even without fertilizarion with the teratoma. Yikes.

What a terrible day to be literate

Why is this drawn in a way that makes it look hot?

tomatoes grow in spain where it's 35°C or sth

tomatoes are a spanish lady, what do you expect?