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Sharing my pic from a greenhouse in SoCal.
It looks kinda like something an AI could generate and I feel mildly uneased by this lol
More like mildly terrifying. No thanks monkey flowers.
That’s crazy good. I wonder what the evolutionary reason behind it is.
My guess is just to scare things that eat it? Idk it is super interesting
Looks like evil monkeys.
I just checked if this was real (yes I do that a lot :D) and omg, it is! I had never heard of it.
The wiki showed another version of this, called Orchis simia:
Orchis simia, commonly known as the monkey orchid, is a greyish pink to reddish species of the genus Orchis. It gets its common name from its lobed lip which mimics the general shape of a monkey's body.[1]
Look how adorable!
They even have little penises!
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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