Nothing Happens At Ten

This SPOTH has curls and swirls. It looks like it has hair….

but those are really spines, as you can see when you move in closer.

Under the spines are the swirls.

Here is the name to avoid.

Here is another SPOTH that I found.

That’s kind of cute. You can see it better in this closeup.

Here is an angle that shows you the label.

This one still kinda looks like that mutant squirrel. These are creeping me out.

Let’s look at something different.

Here is another one that is hiding under its leaves.

It just looks like some leaves, right? Look closer.

It still looks like some leaves on top of a pot. But if we crouch down and look underneath….

Yikes! That looks like some kind of caterpillar! At least it doesn’t look like a mutant squirrel.

See that thing on the very left side of the leaf? Well that is a flower. This thing is blooming. Take a closer look.

Yep. That is a flower. In case you could not read the label in the first photograph, it says “Euphorbia francoisii”, which seems liike a veryy strangee name to mee.

We have another Strange Plant Of The Hour. Take a look.

Even though it looks like something that you might rake up and then throw into the composting bin, that is not just a leaf; it is a whole plant. This plant puts out exactly one leaf, which sits on top of the plant, covering it completely. Here is a closer view.

I have been assured by my experts that there is a plant under there, and it owns this leaf. It only ever puts out exactly one leaf. The single leaf covers the plant entirely.

Strange.

In case you feel an overpowering urge to run out and procure one of these, here is what it is called:

Say that three times quickly without spitting up.

This is a new theme on this blog. Strange Plant Of The Hour…. SPOTH. Since we have so many strange plants growing in our basement, and since I have been having trouble thinking up things to post on this blog, and since this was really somebody else’s idea anyway, I thought that it might be entertaining to show the diversity of what the plants can come up with in their quest to be different.

So, let’s do it.

Today’s SPOTH, the first in this series, is this…..

Yes. There is a plant in there. Let’s take a closer look.

This… um….. plant… is a just a little ball with a little tuft of hair on its noggin.

Looks like a Muppet®…… having a bad hair day.

In case you have not nodded off, and you are still interested, here is what it is.

Pronouncing that so that you can order one on the phone is your problem.