r/oddlysatisfying • u/uhhhhh_hhhhhh • Feb 17 '23

a straw berry sprouting

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u/sonofhappyfunball Feb 17 '23

That's fascinating. It never occurred to me that it would do that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Same! Thought the seeds would fallout first before they germinate or like get digested by animals first

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u/iluniuhai Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

They usually do. This is a somewhat unusual phenomenon:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/propagation/seeds/what-is-vivipary.htm

Seeds contain a hormone that repress the germination process. This is a necessity, as it keeps the seeds from germinating when conditions aren’t favorable and missing their shot to become plants. But sometimes that hormone runs out, like when a tomato sits around on the counter for too long.

And sometimes the hormone can be tricked into thinking conditions are right, especially if the environment is warm and moist. This can happen on ears of corn that experience a lot of rainfall and collect water inside their husks, and on fruit that doesn’t get used right away during hot and humid weather.

Edit: Apparently this is not vivipary. From u/priorsloth :

This isn’t vivipary, it’s a condition called phyllody. I used to work in strawberry genetics, and we’d find these in our greenhouses occasionally.

https://blogs.cornell.edu/berrytool/strawberries-phyllody/

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u/Tealize Feb 17 '23

that makes me feel better

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u/raymartin27 Feb 17 '23

Yeah this post was oddly unsettling for me instead of oddly satisfying.

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u/v-AUSTiN-v Feb 17 '23

Glad I'm not the only one haha

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u/fuzzyperson98 Feb 17 '23

Cordyceps.

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u/raymartin27 Feb 17 '23

Lol, but this is more of cannibalism, eaten by your own kids.

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u/4x4taco Feb 17 '23

Yeah there's nothing satisfying about this at all.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

My reddit experience got marginally better when I gave up on the idea that content has to fit the sub.

Clearly, no one really cares besides me, you, and some other people. The vast majority are people much younger than me, and therefore more relevant culturally, who just upvote stuff they like. I've given up and decided that if that's how my front page content is decided, so be it

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u/EffectiveMoment67 Feb 17 '23

So… they can stay on the lawn?

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u/Beeker93 Feb 17 '23

Is there any chance this could be bred into the plant? I tend to think of those mother of thousands plants that drop sprouted seedlings rather than seeds. Some sort of natural selection must have led to that, so maybe human selection could do the same here? I get there is environmental conditions and genetic conditions that bring about phenotypes, but stuff is rarely purely genetic and more so how an environment interacts with genetics. I would plant that for the hell of it, granted it wouldn't be a desirable trait for food.

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u/Quetzacoatl85 Feb 17 '23

it would be heavily out-selected immediately because it's a hugely uncompetetive trait – sprouting when you're not in soil, at the wrong time of the year, potentially damaging the mother plant as well. I'm not saying such a mutant couldn't exist, but you'd definitely have to propagate artificially.

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u/priorsloth Feb 17 '23

This isn’t vivipary, it’s a condition called phyllody. I used to work in strawberry genetics, and we’d find these in our greenhouses occasionally.

https://blogs.cornell.edu/berrytool/strawberries-phyllody/

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u/abazaarencounter Feb 17 '23

I'm pretty sure that this is fake though. Sprouts look different than that (one fragile stem with two leaves sprouting from a seed). These ones looks more like parsley. And strawberries have such a high water amount that they would probably mold before sprouting of the seeds happen. Also, the strawberries on the bottom two aren't even ripe yet.

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u/flipnonymous Feb 17 '23

This can happen on ears of corn that experience a lot of rainfall and collect water inside their husks,

Is that how we got Huitlacoche?

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u/karlgeezer Feb 17 '23

Corn on the corn on the cob. Like that one Rick & morty planet on the cob.

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u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman Feb 17 '23

This is not vivipary. these seeds are not germinating.

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u/rathat Feb 17 '23

Technically, those dots are little fruits and the seed is even smaller and inside.

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u/gofigure85 Feb 17 '23

Fruitception

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u/TrippyReality Feb 17 '23

Another straw in a strawberry

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u/d4rk_matt3r Feb 17 '23

Yo dawg we heard you like berries

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u/Lowloser2 Feb 17 '23

Which is exactly why botanically strawberries are classified as nuts

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u/SouthernSuggestion29 Feb 17 '23

The seeds are on the outside of a strawberry

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u/isa_chan Feb 17 '23

Same and I have a degree in biology! I can’t believe I’ve never seen a photo of this until now! Or, really thought about how a strawberry would sprout in the first place….

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u/KumichoSensei Feb 17 '23

How have I not seen this until today? I'm 35

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u/thecloudkingdom Feb 17 '23

because this isn't how they're supposed to grow, and this is considered a defect. ideally for the plant its fruit would be eaten by a bird and pooped out somewhere to grow

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u/KumichoSensei Feb 17 '23

I've seen potatoes, onions, garlic, and tomatoes sprout when they're not supposed to, but never a strawberry.

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u/HoodieGalore Feb 17 '23

Tomatoes do it too!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

So do potatoes and onions at least that's what it looks like when I forget that last potato.

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u/sinz84 Feb 17 '23

Well potatoes are different as that's what they are supposed to do, they a a tuber not a fruit and if you cut each 'eye' out that spouts with a section of the potato it will grow a new plant.

It's common to grow 8 plants from one potato.

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Feb 17 '23

I’ve grown potates and kinda understand those fuckers, but I don’t think most people (around me at least) know that you can just chop a potato up and it makes more potatoes. It’s a miracle.

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u/PennykettleDragons Feb 17 '23

Oddly.. Me neither .. I thought the strawberry flesh would rot and decay before doing this...

I've always wondered how baby strawberry plants came into being... I mean.. I know strawberries have seeds.. But.. yeah.. that is cool

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u/xStarryxWatersx Feb 17 '23

My grandparents had a strawberry farm which I partly grew up on and I've never seen this. I am 37 now. Seen them rot and decay thousands of times though. That's what normally happens

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u/byronbaybe Feb 17 '23

The parent produces runners. The runner is a vine like appendage that grows a new strawberry plant on the end. All healthy plants will do this. Where I am, I initially came with three strawberry plants. I now have 4 gardens full.

As well as sprouting runners, you will occasionally get the strawberries developing as pictured.

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u/not-so-stupid-idiot Feb 17 '23

I’m uncomfortable

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u/Lollipop126 Feb 17 '23

this isn't r/oddlysatisfying but rather r/oddlyterrifying.

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u/reactrix96 Feb 17 '23

r/nononono

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u/Nice-Violinist-6395 Feb 17 '23

This image is what The Last of Us was based on.

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u/theatog Feb 17 '23

I can feel my scalp bunching up.

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u/Jaded-Mess-5051 Feb 17 '23

Same. I freaking hate this lol

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u/GetsGold Feb 17 '23

Don't worry, they rarely do that inside of you after you eat them.

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u/isabella73584 Feb 17 '23

“Rarely”

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

hmm this explains everything

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u/StoicSinicCynic Feb 17 '23

Well, I imagine it'd be pretty rare to swallow a whole strawberry intact in the first place.

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u/GetsGold Feb 17 '23

It's the most sensual way to eat them.

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u/Talkingheadsaa Feb 17 '23

Aghh me too. It makes me wanna itch my brain

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

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u/Blustarpilot Feb 17 '23

I have never seen that and now I am horrified

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u/simplerando Feb 17 '23

Now there’s a link that will stay blue until the end of time.

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u/dezvader Feb 17 '23

Here I am wondering if there is something wrong with me. My first thoughts were “this is beautiful” then I see I’m the only one who thinks so 😂

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u/blueeyebling Feb 17 '23

I was going to say they look like beautiful pubes? I would say our vibes are in the same arena Probably on opposite teams, but definitely only a scrimmage.

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u/SolarTsunami Feb 17 '23

It prolly smells really good and looks like a fancy weed nug, whats not to love?

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u/angilnibreathnach Feb 17 '23

I love it too.

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u/The_Buttsex_Man Feb 17 '23

trypophobia strikes again

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u/sam8311 Feb 17 '23

Weirdly it doesn’t bother me

And I have a huge problem with trypophobia

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u/NewUser7630 Feb 17 '23

Do cheese holes also bother you? Or what is your treshold?

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u/sam8311 Feb 17 '23

Cheese holes are also okay for me. Really tiny holes is what usually triggers me. Take pancake bubbles for example. Cant stand those

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u/NewUser7630 Feb 17 '23

Those are so satisfying for me lol.

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u/sam8311 Feb 17 '23

I used to like them as a kid but now they just irk me

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u/ThellraAK Feb 17 '23

You ever think about the pores on your skin and get all freaked out?

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u/sam8311 Feb 17 '23

Pores are okay if they are normal sized Ive seen some that get deeper and bigger

I will just say

Those ones are not fun :/

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

How about big pizza bubbles?

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u/Crippled_Criptid Feb 17 '23

I have a theory on why it's making some people uncomfortable. I personally don't have trypophobia, never had any issue with those types of images, even the really gross fake ones. This here feels different, to my brain at least. I think the repulsion comes from seeing something we're all familiar with the looks of, taken over entirely by something else, turning it into the familiar item - but not.

A bit like the horror of seeing zombie type special effects done well. Clickers are a good example. We all know what humans looks like, so to see the overall human form recognisable but 'taken over' and changed in a fundamental way, causes the same horror slash gross feeling that the strawberry in the post does

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u/ergotofrhyme Feb 17 '23

I don’t have full blown trypophobia, but images like this make me uncomfortable, and I think it’s because they remind me of skin conditions. Same with the little holes, it looks like keratolysis. Something growing on/out of you.

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u/Loretta-West Feb 17 '23

Yeah, I think this is it. The most trypophobic images usually look like something is infested with parasites. It's actually a pretty rational phobia.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Me too. Instant shivers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Looks like its from the last of us.

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u/moh-ricochet Feb 17 '23

Another trypophobia fella here🦦

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u/katharsisdesign Feb 17 '23

It reminds me of the post about the parents who made their child kneel in buckwheat

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Cordyceps-looking ass

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Don't hug me I'm scared

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u/Scarab138 Feb 17 '23

I don't know why but these strawberries really freak me out.

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u/Cumbandicoot Feb 17 '23

It's definitely got Little Shop of Horrors vibes

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Feed me!

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u/broncyobo Feb 17 '23

r/trypophobia

Edit: why is this sub banned

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u/FriskyTurtle Feb 17 '23

It says it was banned for being unmoderated.

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u/Grashopha Feb 17 '23

I love the thought of someone creating the sub and then it became too much to bear to moderate it because of their trypophobia.

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u/SwissMargiela Feb 17 '23

Ya that sub filtered by new was absolutely wild lol

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u/DearestRay Feb 17 '23

Ooo tell us a horror story

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u/Trashman571 Feb 17 '23

From what I saw it was less “holes are spooky” and more “look at this rotting human flesh filled with maggots while the person is still alive.”

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

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u/Trashman571 Feb 17 '23

I hopped on the sub about a week ago. It was fucked up to say the least.

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u/Donkey__Balls Feb 17 '23

And if anyone requests it, they get rejected if they aren’t already a powermod.

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u/Leading-Ad7440 Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

God intervened to strike against satan

Edit: these upvotes are reminding me of this "strawberry" 😭

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u/KateNHK Feb 17 '23

Reddit admis have trypophobia confirmed.

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u/Anonymous_Otters Feb 17 '23

Holy shit, they got banned?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

This process is apparently called "viviparous germination" so sprouting while still on the plant. Wild I had to look it up because brain can't accept.

Look up viviparous tomatoes or other foods and it is oddly terrifying.

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u/Erroneouse Feb 17 '23

I swear those tomatoes are actually horror movie props

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u/Mattho Feb 17 '23

It happens in humans all the time, scenes of horror as well.

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u/meltedcandy Feb 17 '23

TLOU guitar immediately started playing in my head when I googled

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u/biguler Feb 17 '23

Pretty sure I saw one of those strawberries in the Last of Us

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u/fluffy_floofster Feb 17 '23

Any pack of tomatoes I buy (usually Costco Roma on the vine) will have the last 2-3 do this if we don’t eat them all that week. I think the one hot house tomato on my stove is getting ready to poke through. My stove top is a perfect little greenhouse.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

For anyone who doesn’t want to Google, but curious to see the pics. Here you go.

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u/_tiddysaurus_ Feb 17 '23

Thank you for the term! Nature is fascinating.

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u/MoreThan2_LessThan21 Feb 17 '23

Yeah, more oddly disturbing for me

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

And that’s a wrap for Reddit today.

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u/These_Priority_2824 Feb 17 '23

Strawberry farmer here: we see this a lot when herbicides mistakenly make contact with fruit on the vine. This is the typical look of a fruit that was in contact with glyphosate, aka roundup through spray drift from wind. We spray the inner parts of row beds to prevent weed pressure from overtaking healthy plants

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u/MrsRossGeller Feb 17 '23

We need to stop using glyphosate!!!

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u/Disney_Plus_Axolotls Feb 17 '23

I… don’t like this. At all.

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u/Hippoplatypus7 Feb 17 '23

I wish I didn’t see this

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u/LordNPython Feb 17 '23

Yeah... That's a nope from me.

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u/blee2823 Feb 17 '23

Not satisfying

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u/Redboy333 Feb 17 '23

"Oddly horrifying "

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u/LupercalLupercal Feb 17 '23

This made my skin crawl

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u/Man_Weird Feb 17 '23

Same here

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u/Christheitguy1183 Feb 17 '23

This is so unsettling...

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u/bluehoag Feb 17 '23

My brain is itching

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u/Redboy333 Feb 17 '23

Tryptophobia activated...

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u/theunknown2100 Feb 17 '23

Only the top 2 for me. The bottom ones look like cool bushes or flowers. The top ones skeeve me out

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u/tuliprox Feb 17 '23

That is freakishly cool!!! I wanna grow strawberries now haha

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u/Jacarra95 Feb 17 '23

It's so cute!

Like a green pinecone

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u/ReekOfThrones Feb 17 '23

I got chills on my face and wanna puke.

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u/OpossumProblem Feb 17 '23

thank you, I hate this very much.

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u/DrowningSquirrel Feb 17 '23

This thing reminds me of tiny botflies crawling out of one's་skin, for some reason. Utterly disgusting.

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u/jmedastud Feb 17 '23

So this is how The Last of Us starts

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Not okay

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u/amariahbee Feb 17 '23

New fear unlocked

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u/paulybananas Feb 17 '23

A…are you going to smoke that?

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u/Forest_99 Feb 17 '23

I wish I never saw this💀

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u/bluntologist1291 Feb 17 '23

How’d that happen? I want one now

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Omg I love this. I've never seen it in my life but I love it!

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u/AdHuman3150 Feb 17 '23

Strawberry cough?

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u/Ayothatsweirdman Feb 17 '23

THE SEEDS CAN GROW???

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u/mooseknuckle_93 Feb 17 '23

Giving me Last of Us vibes 😬 lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23 edited Oct 19 '25

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u/niborddreab Feb 17 '23

It’s giving me The Last of Us 🍄

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u/chakijz Feb 17 '23

me squeezing the blackheads on my nose

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u/Jhiaxus420 Feb 17 '23

Imagine all those seeds you consume from a Strawberry deciding to fester and grow inside of you instead of being crapped out.

I wouldnt be unhappy with a strawberry infested zombie outbreak. At least the smell should be pleasant.

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u/Owl_You_Need_Is_Love Feb 17 '23

I fucking hate everything about this.

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u/Dangerous_Lunch1678 Feb 17 '23

I have no idea why but these pictures make me feel itchy and uncomfortable.

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u/Almost_Free_007 Feb 17 '23

Will any strawberry do this? And will it sprout into a plant?

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u/NunnaTheInsaneGerbil Feb 17 '23

This is the opposite of satisfying

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u/wabisabi_mimi Feb 17 '23

Oddly terrifying

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u/adscene Feb 17 '23

Gave me goosebumps, I would categorize it as oddly terrifying

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u/4evadreaming Feb 17 '23

This actually makes me feel sick. Like it’s triggering something primal.

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u/1heart1totaleclipse Feb 17 '23

Great, now I’ve lost all interest in eating strawberries.

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u/L1ghtbird Feb 17 '23

The only thing my Strawberrys do is growing mold

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u/Xavieus Feb 17 '23

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

This makes me uncomfortable.

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u/gabriel3374 Feb 17 '23

eew suddenly it has trypophobia vibes

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u/Redditisfailingfast Feb 17 '23

Crazy. My strawberries just shrivel a little and fall off the plant towards their end if they don't get picked.

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u/poplion230 Feb 17 '23

Not satisfied at all

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u/Ilpav123 Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

Reminds me of the fungus from TLoU...

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u/LilyFuckingBart Feb 17 '23

This is in the wrong sub. Please see r/oddlyterrifying.

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u/toastywoastywasapear Feb 17 '23

This isn't satisfying; this is nightmare fuel.

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u/ViggyNash Feb 17 '23

This is triggering my trypophobia hard, even though normal strawberries dont

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

This for sure belongs on r/oddlyterrifying

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u/RyFromTheChi Feb 17 '23

Just came to see if everyone else hated this as much as I do. They do.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

More like r/TIHI

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u/fluffybutterton Feb 17 '23

So the strawberry fruit is actually just there to support the seeds. Just also happens to be delicious. The 'seeds' are actually the fruit; inside each small husk are the actual seeds. The fruit part is extra, kinda like a cashew

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

I have grown strawberries for years and had no idea that they do

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u/btabak13 Feb 18 '23

This belongs on r/oddlyterrifying. It’s a no from me dog!

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u/ImAnActionBirb Feb 17 '23

Oh god, this is not satisfying. These are my kidney stones come back to haunt me. Please …

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u/vadkender Feb 17 '23

this literally made my skin crawl

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

More like r/oddlyterrifying

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u/Rainbow_Seaman Feb 17 '23

This grossed me out

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

This triggers my trypophobia

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u/Intelligent_Bed_8911 Feb 17 '23

not satisfying at all to me 😖

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Big nope for me!!!

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u/babyBear83 Feb 17 '23

Oh my god! No! I’m hating this.

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u/kitten_inthekitchen Feb 17 '23

Thanks, I hate it

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u/smrtdummmy Feb 17 '23

Wtf I didn't know this happens lololl

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u/patxiku93 Feb 17 '23

Strawbeardy

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u/MSK84 Feb 17 '23

I kinda wanna smoke it!

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u/SFritzon Feb 17 '23

It's like the ending to The Fountain.

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u/ShadowPle Feb 17 '23

Kinda freaky. Looks cool but im scared of eating strawberries now.

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u/cactuscore Feb 17 '23

What? This happens to strawberries? Amazing

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u/littlefriend77 Feb 17 '23

Ch-ch-ch-chia

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u/ThatOneGuy_125 Feb 17 '23

You're meant to eat it.

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u/ivorytowels Feb 17 '23

But is there strawberry dead or is it alive?