Zheng Dexun, a farmer in southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently found this anthropomorphic root. It's the tonic herb He Shou Wu, Chinese knotweed.Human-shaped He Shou Wu (Shanghai Daily, via Fortean Times)
Human-shaped root
Zheng Dexun, a farmer in southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently found this anthropomorphic root. It's the tonic herb He Shou Wu, Chinese knotweed.Human-shaped He Shou Wu (Shanghai Daily, via Fortean Times)
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This story seems oddly familiar for some reason.
And, boy, is he happy to see you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-510502/Shall-just-veg-darling.html
Hmm...
Double Boinged!
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/04/creepy-alien-springs.html.
Yes... "found." Because there's absolutely no way to make a root grow that way.
Human-shaped root?
Or root-shaped human?
How about human-shopped root?
The symmetry belies credibilty. Now, the potato that I grew that looks like a lop-sided rat is another thing entirely.
Reminds me of that movie from a few years ago about the people who are trapped on an old Mexican pyramid and the plants mimic human cries.
Wouldn't it be just cool is plants really did 'evolve' to take on human shapes?
There's some good sci-fi taking root here.
I'll point out that, in China, there's good money in anthropomorphic medicinal roots...
When I was there, in Hangzhou, I saw a vaguely human-shaped ginseng root (nothing like this, just forks where the legs and arms ought to be). It was on display under glass, in what passes for a pharmacy over there (somewhere between a castle, a temple, and what kung-fu schools look like in my imagination, but with a few hundred thousand more drawers), going for something like US$75,000.
Generally, the more human-looking ginseng is, the more it fetches.
Do. Not. Believe.
http://images.google.com/images?q=何首烏
Apparently sold like this in markets, grown using a mold of "man" and "woman" shapes.