Monday, 29 December 2014

Faucaria Tigrina - In The Greenhouse, No One Can Hear You Scream

image credit: Mike Keeling

They say that life imitates art but perhaps in this case it is the other way around. This is Faucaria tigrina or the Tiger's Jaw - a succulent plant found in South Africa.

Yet caught at the right angle the plant does not resemble so much the jaw of a tiger as that of an altogether alien creature, featured in a number of movies starring Sigourney Weaver et al.

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