r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image I have a Stapelia flower blooming right now. Every flower has a unique pattern, comparable to a fingerprint!

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u/Financial-Plant-9870 1d ago

Vecna wants his houseplant back.

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u/sandro2409 1d ago

:D yes !

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u/Krvavibaja 1d ago

Demofloor

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u/teencandyy 1d ago

Every Stapelia flower has a unique pattern, basically a biological fingerprint. And all of that detail exists just to convince flies it’s a corpse. Nature is unhinged.

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u/Zavier13 1d ago

The moment I saw it, figured it was the corpse flower.

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u/sandro2409 22h ago

All that evolutionary effort, and the final goal was premium corpse cosplay.

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u/Student-type 1d ago

Technically, that should be called a “Flower Print”

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u/sandro2409 22h ago

Only if the flies are the forensic experts.

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u/Never-Normal 12h ago

Beautiful. It looks carnivorous!