botanyshitposts:Just thought you might like to see these thorny lads growing on one of my raspberry
botanyshitposts:Just thought you might like to see these thorny lads growing on one of my raspberry plants! I’m guessing it’s a case of ‘oopsy, Stem cells are suddenly growing here on Leaf because /somebody/ misread the manual’ based on fragments of memories of a post of yours talking about funky blossoms (sunflower?) and stems that mutated? (submitted by @chibiwing-aka-nozomikei)——wow. okay. holy shit. i first saw this submission at 4am and it really threw me for a loop. like, i think i’d have to agree with you that something happened, because it seriously does look like the plant mixed up leaf/fruit making time for sex time or stem time; i say stem time because the thorns on those look like the thorns on wild raspberry bush stems, but cultivated varieties dont usually have thorns from what i’m seeing looking it up online….but yet, they’re in the shape of berries, and the ones on the left kinda look like theyre trying to ripen into a berry-like object, and it would be way easier for the plant to mess up like this in the context of a fruit-making situation….but at the same time those don’t all look like places where berries would happen….bruhthe easiest general explanation i can think of is that they arent part of the bush at all, or at least weren’t supposed to be, but are actually some kind of insect making galls on the leaves to lay eggs in, in which case the whole point is to mess up the plant to make ‘tumors’ like this. i’ve literally never seen galls that look like and are placed like this, but it kind of fits the bill of ‘weird looking bulges on leaves’, so i’d say it’s possible. otherwise, it could be an infection causing it; bacteria living in plant growth points can confuse the point by secreting their own hormones while the plant is still relying on its own hormones to tell it what to put where and so forth (this is generally how plants end up with the fasciation mutation). honestly if i were you i’d find a way to cut one in half to see what’s in it lmao -- source link
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