Seeds. Close up. In pictures...

August 14, 2021 11:03 PM

The Art Of Nature. For his photo series The Hidden Beauty of Seeds and Fruits, Biss immersed himself in the collections housed at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden , sifting through its 3,500 historical specimens. “I was stunned by the variety of designs that exist to disperse seeds. Some are truly ingenious,” he says, singling out the hairy-stemmed electric shock plant, “an innocent-looking seed pod until an animal (or human) decides to bite!” Some glorious images.
posted by IndelibleUnderpants (4 comments total)

Some of these look as alien as anything I've seen in drawings or in the movies.
posted by Harald74 at 11:14 PM on August 14, 2021

"Coco de mer" looks like a brain
posted by maksmus at 12:12 AM on August 15, 2021

This suddenly became somewhat topical for me: My wife pulled me out of bed last night to have a look at the cat's "maggot-infested wound". Closer inspection revealed it to be some kind of seed pod with whitish seeds that did indeed on first glance looked maggot-like. My sleep-addled brain did not bring up that the cat was totally fine when I petted him a couple of hours earlier, and an infection of that kind would need some time to fester. Anyways, kitty was fine, except slightly annoyed that we cornered him to first look him over and then get the seed pod out of his fur.
posted by Harald74 at 11:57 PM on August 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

This is your brain on seeds
posted by flabdablet at 2:16 AM on August 16, 2021