If a tomato runs out of the hormone that keeps seeds dormant, they may start sprouting from inside the fruit (this is called vivipary)π
This is existentially terrifying.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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This is basically what happens to Radek in Annihilation (2018).
Do not open this, trust me
Imagine your sperm just starts growing into babies inside your balls bro
I mean, ectopic pregnancy is that concept, roughly, but real. Baby growing where baby cannot grow.
Dandelion ahh fetuses
Just put some copper up there, thatβll fix it.
Excuse toi?
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
Haploid babies?
Is this the tomato girl fantasy??
no but it's from the same artist ;-)
Mind blown. Are those ... seeds? Sprouting? Out of my head???
I thought this was all about fun and bolognese. Little did I know.
That tomato is pregnant in human terms, technically.
I mean, in human terms, that tomato is a bloated uterus, already filled with zygotes and amniotic fluid.
The artist Feefal is also on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/feefal
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.
funny coincidence that my dad just mentioned this particular tomato quirk earlier today.
maybe i am your dad? Hi John
!morphmoe@ani.social is leaking.
Reminds me of the hanahaki disease trope
Something tells me I shouldn't look this up
edit: oh, it's fictional
Fictional but aesthetically beautiful.
.... If you ignore the agonising screams
:''(
Usually my tomatoes just get moldy.
This would happen to me sometimes with home grown tomatos. Maybe it in part has to do with store bought are usually picked under ripe so they survive getting to the shelves? Or could be whatever mystery variety I was planting
When the bottoms get moldy and fall off it's a lack of nutrients. Calcium, mostly.
Someone should draw something similar for corn smut (a parasitic fungus that infects maize kernels).
Why is this drawn in a way that makes it look hot?
tomatoes grow in spain where it's 35Β°C or sth
tomatoes are a spanish lady, what do you expect?
No thanks.