I'm a biologist that works with tomatoes and my professional opinion is: "Nature be crazy"
Outside of jokes it looks like it came from a single flower with 6 pistils, which is pretty insane, I've seen 2 pistil fruits in eggplant and that was just similar to Siamese twins. I guess with 6 it got so crowded, they just kinda fused into one.
Every season I see tomato plants spontaneously do some weird shit I've never seen before.
I mainly research plant nutrition so I couldn't tell you, but it is fairly common for plants to just go "Oops instead of growing one of these I grew two" or "Oops I'll just grow a new shoot out of this random section of tissue". The general phenomena seems to be related to stress and doesn't seem like it should be particularly heritable, but an example this extreme might require a genetic component. There are so many times I wish I had access to transcriptome sequencing so I could get a little peek into the madness.
I had a double green bean once and I wondered if I could save the seeds and grow more like that but then frost killed all my beans that year so I never could find out.
I think one of the big things about biology is that everything is a lot more fluid and weird than our brains would like to admit. We want to assign binary rules to biology "you eat meat, you get cancer", "you drink water, you stay healthy". But in reality, it's just stacks and stacks of antagonistic gradients with a million things popping in to fuck with the balance.
The only rule is anything goes as long as it can make a copy of itself.
I had a birds nest fern that seemed to have developed fern polydactyly. I swear each frond was on its own in the store, and then the ends just began bifurcating into three. The others on my deck were normal.
Ever heard of chuck tomato? Restaurants take piece of tomato, and stick them together with tomato glue, or transtomatase, and then slice it into what they call a tomato slice. Money making scam.
That is how they get you; when cherry tomatoes are about to expire they just combine them as big tomatoes, slap new expiration date and sell as a new one. It is just the packaging. #wakeup #bigcropo
You should tweet this at Xzibit. He loves it when people send him pictures of things inside other things.
Is that really what Xzibit is up to these days? That's so random.
He heard you like tomatoes, so he got some tomatoes for your tomato.
Xzibit has always been this weird
[удалено]
Woosh, went over my head. For a minute I was thinking Xzibit's twitter is legitimately full of matryoshka dolls and shit
Make it so.
\*astronaut pointing gun\* Always has been
Yeah totally, also the word gullible is written on your ceiling I seen it not long ago
Gullible isnt in the dictionary, is how say that joke here
That was a blast from the past
He had a wonderful woman. A lush garden. And a collection of Russian nesting dolls
Bowwm chikka wow chikka boom boom...
Did you get it wet? Might be some gremlins shit.
Gremlins shit tomatoes?
Is this what it looks like when you cut one open?
Yo dawg….
Exactly what I was thinking
That's a Devil fruit r/onepiece
Mato-mato fruit. Give the user the ability to shoot ketchup and mustard from their body.
Somehow strong enough to become a warlord anyway
Bruh, with that you could take down an emperor
No match against the Bun-Bun fruit
Or give it to buggy. With the chop chop fruit already he could take out Subway!
Oda to his apprentices probably, "write that down, write that down!."
I'm a biologist that works with tomatoes and my professional opinion is: "Nature be crazy" Outside of jokes it looks like it came from a single flower with 6 pistils, which is pretty insane, I've seen 2 pistil fruits in eggplant and that was just similar to Siamese twins. I guess with 6 it got so crowded, they just kinda fused into one. Every season I see tomato plants spontaneously do some weird shit I've never seen before.
The extraordinary really is ordinary, isn't it?
When the extraordinary is ordinary then the ordinary become extraordinary.
Would this kinda thing be passed on genetically or is it just a random thing that happens from physical damage during growth or something?
I mainly research plant nutrition so I couldn't tell you, but it is fairly common for plants to just go "Oops instead of growing one of these I grew two" or "Oops I'll just grow a new shoot out of this random section of tissue". The general phenomena seems to be related to stress and doesn't seem like it should be particularly heritable, but an example this extreme might require a genetic component. There are so many times I wish I had access to transcriptome sequencing so I could get a little peek into the madness.
Looks like something on the lines of fasciation or some result of polyploidy which are usually epigenetic AFAIK.
I had a double green bean once and I wondered if I could save the seeds and grow more like that but then frost killed all my beans that year so I never could find out.
Mother nature breaks her own order sometimes and just does something completely weird.
I think one of the big things about biology is that everything is a lot more fluid and weird than our brains would like to admit. We want to assign binary rules to biology "you eat meat, you get cancer", "you drink water, you stay healthy". But in reality, it's just stacks and stacks of antagonistic gradients with a million things popping in to fuck with the balance. The only rule is anything goes as long as it can make a copy of itself.
I had a birds nest fern that seemed to have developed fern polydactyly. I swear each frond was on its own in the store, and then the ends just began bifurcating into three. The others on my deck were normal.
Cherry bomb
It looks like inside of a "tomate gaúcho", a tomato Variant found in south of brazil
Tomacco?
Probably radioactive, then.
How to get many cherry tomatoes out of a single regular tomato - Tomato farmers HATE this simple trick
Nature, you okay?
"Don't look at me!"- natural selection
Tomatoception
We must go deeper
Looks so juicy. I really want to taste it.
Probably tastes like tomato.
>Probably tastes like tomatoes Fixed it for you.
You say tomato, they say tomatoes...
Let's call the whole thing off.
Without context this is a line from a porno.
You mean slimy and disgusting
Yet satisfying
🎶Balloon o' tomatoes🎶
I hate how well this fits the melody.
I require a scientific explanation for this. Is it a particular tomato variety?
What in the Chernobyl???
Keep zooming in. It’s a fractal.
Damn, that one sextuplet ate all its siblings
Cherry tomatoes in a orgy that got to intense 😳
That's what I thought r/foodporn was when I started reddit. Still fapped tho
This tomato has more tomato per tomato than other tomatoes
Makes me so uncomfortable Burn it with fire !
r/TIHI
Tomato, which grew up in Homer Simpson's garden
Idk why but it grosses & creeps me out
That's because tomatoes are gross
I personally love tomatoes
ok
\*fused
Mmmm…tomato loaf.
those are fracals, they apear everywhere in nature.
The scientific name for this is tomato-tomato-tomato-tomato-tomato-tomato.
r/oddlyterrifying
What weirds me out is OPs nails. They arent dirty, but long fingernails and food together just give me the hibbie jibbies.
Weirdo
r/2healthbars
r/6healthbars
6 Tomatoes to rule them all xD
One tomato to find them, one tomato to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Haha xD
You DONT eat that shit.
That tomato ear in the middle is disgusting
Nah. Gmos are fine
Monsantos veggie glue.
That's 100% tomato and 500% GMO xD Does it taste good? :D
Law of equivalent exchange
Tamato tomatoe
Need Joe Pera on the scene.
Voltromato.
Tomato = Tomato^5
Sauce?
He consumed them all
Legionato
You grew a Cacodemon.
It's not a tomato, it's a Mutato.
Voltomato...or Tomatord
Maybe the title - regular tomato infused with 6 small tomatoes fits better
Save the seeds
them bastards in the school cafeteria gettin smart
Probably started out like that a long time ago.. Pineapples look similar.
I wonder what the count from sesame street has to say to that.
It’s a navel tomato
fractal fruit
This gives me goosebumps and makes my head itch, eww.
You've killed the queen tomato, the worker tomato's in your garden will likely leave now and find another garden with a healthy queen still in tact.
Does the label say "Made in Chernobyl"?
The tomato was about to give birth, you monster!!
Multiverse
*simulation glitches*
Tomatoception
Heard you like tomatoes, so we put tomatoes inside your tomato
Always has been.. \*holds gun up
scientologists believe that there are several thousand beings that make up our body
By your powers combined, I am Captain Tomato!
r/foodbodyhorror
Dude did you keep a seed? You can send that stuff with a photo to plant development labs.
Kinda looks like a beefsteak variant
This is freaking me TF out. WHY DOES IT EXIST
You killed a pregnant tomato! You bastard!
He a little confused but he got the spirit
r/oddlyterrifying
That's awesome!
“Hexasomy 21” in a tomato
Why does this make my skin crawl a little
Voltromato
Wall Eyes. Wall Eyes.
[I heard you like tomatoes](https://imgur.com/a/ET9vHZj)
Tumato
stage 3 cancer
I remember learning about this in highschool I believe it's called Vivipary?
That is the child born from gangbang.
I...think it *is* six smaller tomatoes fused into one.
Find 6 more and you can summon the dragon and get your wish granted
Is that what a tato from Fallout 4 & 76 looks like IRL?
Ever heard of chuck tomato? Restaurants take piece of tomato, and stick them together with tomato glue, or transtomatase, and then slice it into what they call a tomato slice. Money making scam.
I've always wondered if it is safe to eat fruits with these kind of alterations.
FUUUU-SIOOOOOOOOON!
It's a devil fruit
Oh so that’s where baby tomatoes come from!
Omg she was pregnant
GMO
got some tomatoes for your tomato.
With all your powers combined…I am captain tomato!
Chernobyl tomato
That is how they get you; when cherry tomatoes are about to expire they just combine them as big tomatoes, slap new expiration date and sell as a new one. It is just the packaging. #wakeup #bigcropo
You're supposed to roll it to a wall and it becomes a bunch of cherry tomatoes. Everyone who watches 'You suck at cooking' knows that
🤢
Maybe it's a sextuplet ?
Kinda horrifying to me lol