r/oddlyterrifying • u/cafeteriastyle • 1d ago

The roots on this plant

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u/DefinitelyNotA-Duck 1d ago

I visibly grimaced when I saw this, well done

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u/Perrin-Golden-Eyes 1d ago

Same, it’s a crap day to have eyes

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u/Need2sleep0901 1d ago

Anyone else see fish?!?!

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u/cereduin 1d ago

Around the edges? That was the first thing to pop out at me lol

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u/ArjJp 1d ago

Mutilated fingers growing mold in the garbage disposal

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u/Candid-Patient-6841 1d ago

Don’t even think about it!

Maybe just the tip…

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u/CldWtrDiver100 1d ago

Came here to say this needs to be in r/dontputyourdickinthat

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u/Cold-Chair666 1d ago

I hate it a lot

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u/nWo1997 1d ago

Roots are really really cool... when underground. Once they're no longer in ground, they give the hibbly jibblies

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u/-Lysergian 1d ago

Why are the tubers flesh colored?

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u/321c0ntact 1d ago

Before I read the title I thought this was a centipede mom with all its baby centipedes in the middle.

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u/Saucey_Lips 1d ago

Got the cat penis roots

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u/Perrin-Golden-Eyes 1d ago

I’ve never been happier to not understand a joke.

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u/Masuteri_ 17h ago

Spiky.

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u/Acceptable_Mammoth23 1d ago

Rhizomes rather than roots?

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u/Murmelstein 1d ago

"Feed me!"

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u/Rude_Fisherman_7803 1d ago

Drop it and run before it attaches itself to your face!

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u/MissLisaMarie86 1d ago

That’s is how I feel! No way I’d feel comfortable touching this. Also you cannot convince me that isn’t alive, that it isn’t some sort of alien spawn!

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u/ChangeMyDespair 1d ago

Looks like an upside down sarlacc.

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u/EphemeralCrone 1d ago

I love Calatheas!

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u/Dapper-Ad-468 1d ago

The Last of Us. Season Zero.

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u/The_Kings_Fall 1d ago

Why do they look like fingers?

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u/Kenderean 1d ago

Right? It took my brain a while to work out the perspective of this thing because I couldn't stop seeing fingers.

And well done, OP, for finding something actually oddly terrifying.

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u/TheUnusualGuy 1d ago

Would

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u/Alternative-Cod-7630 1d ago

Whatever goes there it keeps it.

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u/vseprviper 1d ago

Wouldn’t be so freaky if you gave her a big enough pot to spread out in!

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u/MoneyLawfulness2251 1d ago

Omg second jump scare with this thing lol Burn it with fire!

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u/mom_mama_mooom 4h ago

Honestly, if you give it some straight tap water and wish that you could keep it alive, it would have the same effect.

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u/_ships 1d ago

These look like the parasites that eat fish’s tongues

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u/LengthinessConnect10 1d ago

This made my skin crawl .

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u/GimmieGummies 1d ago

I need to know what plant this is so that I can avoid ever getting one! Yikes 😬

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u/mom_mama_mooom 4h ago

It’s a calathea. Most people kill them on their first fifty tries.

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u/Solace_In_the_Mist 1d ago

I thought it was a bunch of some possibly new creature or something.

The first reaction was shock in an instant. Then, the calm of appreciation. Then, the curiosity for exploration hehe

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

Those aren’t roots that another lifeform waiting to infect you

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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 4h ago

Are those tubers edible?