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Mutant radioactive flowers in Nasushiobara (half-way between Tokyo and Fukushima)
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- pvaldes 11y agoNor necessarily mutated or radioactive. This can be triggered by several pathogens or weather damage also. But, if is mutated by radioactivity and is a stable mutation then you have a new and perfectly marketable product.
- gus_massa 11y agoI'll repost a comment I made in a discussion about the same image: They are probably not "mutant" flowers, but "deformed" flowers. Do the offspring have the new shape? The flowers in the florist shop are filtered and you only see the good locking flowers. For example in https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=mutant+flowers https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=mutant+flowers First image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower-Mutant-1145.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower-Mutant-1145.j... > Flower head with a mutated floret cluster (unknown species). (North Texas) [...] 12 April 2009 Second image: http://www.enchantedtree.com/flowers.html http://www.enchantedtree.com/flowers.html (near the middle of the page) The image doesn't have a clear caption, but it's probably from Virginia in the summer 2004.
- pvaldes 11y ago> Flower head with a mutated floret cluster (unknown species) Gerbera x hybrida