Fukushima Daisies

Do they glow in the dark?

What about the one most to the left?

Ve cund mac dees ein de lap...

Anybody who has worked on creating a super strain of plant species by exposing the seeds to radioactive pellets or various acidic substances knows that for every success there are thousands of failures....This is a natural process in nature that can be accelerated in the lab...The unsuccessful plants die off...This is nothing more than a glimpse into a natural process as plants and seeds are exposed to these things all over the Earth....There is no proof that this anomaly was created by radiation, but it certainly could have been....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK215771/

Good one.

A GA from me too!

S'all good....

Please stop posting pictures of my ex wife!

You married that TOO?!?!?!?!?! I thought I was the only stupid one!

All cats in Japan already looked like that one to some extent - not sure if it had anything to do with Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but they just have wierd cats over there, cool, but wierd.

Not as bad as those from the Little Shop of Horrors.

I have a question?

How do you know these are Fukushima flowers and not some digital editing wizardry?

do you believe anything online? you should have seen the light on that back in the 90's

Well, if Alfred E. Neuman says it's true then it must be true!

Ahhh... Finally! The old "Venus Fly Trap to Daisy cross pollination experiment" results.

Who is Shima? And why doesn't he like her Daisies?

At the risk of sounding blase, meh.

You'll find malformed/distorted/'mutant' flowers anywhere if you look hard enough.

As was stated somewhere above, this is part of Evolution, mutations and malformations occur randomly, and those that manage to sucessfully breed/polinate/etc, pass their genes on to the next generation, those that fail, do not. 'Mutation' + 'Selection⁽¹⁾' = 'Evolution.'

That doesn't even need radiation to cause such an effect, the flowers could have been hit with a disease early on, or a physical trauma could have screwed up the hormonal 'intercelular communication,' resulting in distortion of the final form.

Notes:

1. Selection is not always 'Natural Selection,' it can be 'Artificial Selection' as well, like with the Heikegani Crab⁽²⁾. The key point is random mutation (which occurs automatically and naturally as part of reproduction) and a 'filter' of some sort, to allow some to contribute to the next generation while others do not.
2. Check out Cosmos for a succinct explanation. Either A Personal Journey (the original, featuring Carl Sagan) or A Spacetime Oddysey (the updated remake, featuring Sagan's student, Neil DeGrasse Tyson). They both cover it, and both shows are worth watching, although the newer on is, obviously, more up-to-date with discoveries made in the time between the shows.
   

I have a dogwood tree in my yard that produces about a dozen five, six, and seven-petaled flowers every year.

Nature's GMOs….I have heard of plants that have sprouted from ancient lava fields, not by seed propagation, but from cracks opening up due to rainwater and natural earth movement. Seed that should have been exterminated by volcanic temperatures and pressure somehow survived and when subjected to water and light "came to life".