That is more than just mildly interesting! What is going on there?

Not OP and not 100% confident that this is the correct answer, but it looks like Fasciation to me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation

Well, I'm certainly fascinated.

Keep feeling fasciation

Passion burning, Love So Stro-ong..

It's just the way we fe-e-el

We're fascists!

From the Latin for facet or fasces To tighten

Fascist your seat belt

Mildlyfasciated

You're right I think. It looks exactly like some of the images.


[what if this happened to a person?](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/CONC6CXBgO)

Didn't that turn out to be bullshit though?

r/fasciation

You're correct. I've had my cannabis plants do it before.

Thats what i call a trip before you trip

You are correct. I had a marijuana plant do this once

All I ever get with marijuana plants is fungus gnats who eat all my sparkly trichomes.

The ones that get creepy are the the flowers..

Hoe’s Chernobyl this time of the year?

Weather's good, sights to die for...some Russian traps left at round though so not a good time to go spelunking.

Faciation is a great guess. More generally its a mutation of the apical meristem. that’s the part at the top that keeps a plant growing upwards. Mutations to it can have major impacts on plant growth.

> More generally its a mutation of the apical meristem I ***KNEW*** it!! (LOL!)

Natures ribbon cable.

It’s called “Fasciation”

No no, I just think it's cool. :)

r/fasciation

Half expected this to be some kind of fetish sub

It really depends on what you do with the images

So glad this is a sub!

*Fashion

Hold on - your saying dicot leaves (which those are) can just start growing out of a monocot leaf (which the host appears to be)?

No, that’s not what’s happening. Fasciation is a mutation that causes elongation in the growing tip of a plant part. So it can make the stem grow into a ribbon-like thing instead of a thin cylinder. You’re seeing regular leaves growing out of the fasciated stem.

The other comment is correct the stem is fasciated, its normal leaves growing out of the abnormal stem. Monocots and a dicots are evolutionary seperate plant clades

Have you seen ‘Annihilation’?

The ending is one of the most ineffable things I've seen

The ending is nuts. Music during that sequence is awesome too.

Maybe for you but I effed the shit out of it

Underrated movie

Yeah, is p good.

That fucking bear...

That bear was absolutely brilliant and perfectly haunting. It’s been years since I’ve seen the movie and I still think about that scary ass bear often.

Now play god and splice it with other plants to encourage the mutation.

How does this plant normally look?

With it's eyes, Bert!

This looks like a chart on Ancestry.com.

Whoa, this is a fasciated forsythia (try saying that 5 times fast)

I dont like this.

Trypophobia gang pulling up.

Thanks, I hate it


Alright, Reddit.. if there’s a botanist out there, what in the world am I looking at

r/fasciation it's a plant mutation causing flat mutated stems and funky vegetation growth in lots of different plants

I wanna peel it.

Very cool. I would start blinking prime sequences at it to establish communication and find out more about its home planet.

Clone stamp got stuck

I wonder if it's offspring will also have a high chance of mutating.

make a clone out of it, those are rare mutants.. I'm not kidding [https://www.trees.com/gardening-and-landscaping/how-to-clone-plants](https://www.trees.com/gardening-and-landscaping/how-to-clone-plants)

Alas, I only found this after having already trimmed it off the main plant.

Fascination can be a cause of Aster Yellows. Which can spread to your other plants by insects/pollinators. I would consider removing this before all of your plants are infected.

Sell it.

I wonder if this is what plant cancer would look like.

That's an IDE cable...

Is this plant cancer?

What does it taste like?

Seeing a lot of fasciation posts recently, both here and in the garden and plant subs. I also have a few on my tomato plants.