Ann: New Seaclem 1 - Spud - Progress Report , page-33

re: Ann: BUY: New Seaclem 1 - Spud - Progress... @ Bendigo -- hahaha brilliant

"I'm not certain, but I think the plant in the foreground it is a Triffid.

It is looking out to sea at the O.P. which it believes is its mother."

@ bruce

1. gymea - never even knew we had them - cheers.

2. Triffids -- classic novel - "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham.

An 8 foot high vegetable, with legs and great stinging stamen - they 'hide' in the shrubberies, then lash out with their deadly stinging stamen, blind people and then gobble them up.

Triffids were bioengineered & housed in massive nurseries after Earth realised that they were running out of oil.

The idea was to squash em up and get fuel products - they had other ideas.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

Hence = bruce's photo of the 'baby triffid'.....overlooking the OP.

cheers