Believe it or not, it's part of a plant

@JudyEv (340278)
Rockingham, Australia
March 4, 2018 2:28am CST
While in the town of Denmark, Western Australia, recently we visited a nursery. I didn’t take my camera but asked Vince to take a photo of a huge cactus type plant which was for sale for over $A200. Heavens knows how you would move it if you bought it. I didn’t think to ask Vince to take a shot of the whole plant so he did the photographer thing and took a macro shot of the fruit or flower of the strange plant. So now I don’t know its name or how to identify it. The leaves were huge and the stems covered in vicious-looking prickles. But doesn’t it make an interesting photo?
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• Preston, England
4 Mar 18
great image - looks like a close up of a space invaders arcade game screen lol
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
It certainly doesn't look like a plant does it? Here's the stems to the leaves.
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@Madshadi (8840)
• Brussels, Belgium
4 Mar 18
My thoughts exactly lol
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@tzwrites (4835)
• Romania
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv It looks like a thorny vine...
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
4 Mar 18
That alone makes it look interesting. Great photo!
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
It is a great photo but gives you no idea of the actual look of the thing!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
4 Mar 18
reall iterestuing wiow
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
It's very different isn't it?
@LadyDuck (471498)
• Switzerland
4 Mar 18
I do not know the name of this cactus, but it is an interesting photo. The price is pretty expensive.
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@LadyDuck (471498)
• Switzerland
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv I did not know that rhubarb may have spikes, very strange.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
@LadyDuck It's an ornamental one and huge so quite a bit different to the garden variety.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
I think now it isn't a cactus but a giant ornamental rhubarb. There is no way I'd pay so much for any plant.
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Mar 18
It definitely does make an interesting photo. Too bad you didn't get the name of the plant.
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Mar 18
@JudyEv It would be interesting to find out what kind of plant that is. It is beautiful.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
I forget to tell him that I just want a simple photo. He always has something special in mind but I'd never say anything as he is very quick to take whatever photos I want. I now try to remember to be more specific about what I want.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
@just4him I went searching and it's a giant ornamental rhubarb.
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@nitirrbb7 (4317)
• India
4 Mar 18
Din't you ask someone in the nursery what exactly was this plant? The picture looks quite attractive
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@mydanods (6513)
• Nigeria
4 Mar 18
I thought so too.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
They were busy and I wasn't going to buy it anyway so I didn't bother. I thought Vince had taken a photo of the whole plant but when I got home I discovered he'd only taken the flower bit and the stem.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
4 Mar 18
Looks like something from an alien movie very interesting pattern.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
4 Mar 18
@JudyEv haha yes it does, like alien life form spores or maybe it's the way the picture was zoomed in, but I must admit it has a beauty of her own.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
@louievill Some of Vince's FB photo groups like to have competitions where they have to guess what the photo is of. This would be a good entry for one of those sorts of completions.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
It does look alien doesn't it?
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@moffittjc (121612)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Mar 18
That's a great photo! It looks a little bit like the Aliens in Toy Story, if you can imagine that they all caught some kind of disease or cancer that gave them red bumps on the tops of their heads! Or maybe those are all bumps on their heads for when The Claw dropped down and tried to grab them! haha I hope you saw the movie Toy Story so you know what I was referencing! lol
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@moffittjc (121612)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv Well Judy, you just need to see that movie! You will fall in love with it!
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
I am a bit embarrassed to say I haven't seen Toy Story so I have no idea what you're on about!
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
4 Mar 18
Yes it does, now I am curious to know the name.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
It's a giant ornamental rhubarb. I remember thinking at the time that it looked like a big rhubarb.
@Shiva49 (26690)
• Singapore
4 Mar 18
Yes, tough to make out how the whole plant looks like. Interesting snap though - siva
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv Thats cool, I think of what rhubarb looks like here so that makes sense. Thanks
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
@Shiva49 @cintol I discovered it's a giant ornamental rhubarb and that is exactly what it looks like. The photo is of part of the flower spike.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Mar 18
It looks like a clothe design pattern.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
It does a bit doesn't it?
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
4 Mar 18
A cactus, right?
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
No, I was wrong. It's an ornamental rhubarb.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar 18
@JustBhem I can understand that.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv Oh, it looks like a Cactus to me though.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Mar 18
It looks like a lot of baby cactuses in rows.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
I can see how you'd think that and I agree completely.
• Northampton, England
4 Mar 18
I must admit I dd like aussie trees and fauna
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
We certainly have some unique varieties.
@youless (112507)
• Guangzhou, China
5 Mar 18
I haven't seen this plant before. It looks lovely. I think Australia does have some unique plans and animals
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@youless (112507)
• Guangzhou, China
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv Yes, just like pandas are unique in my country
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
I am sure you are right but I guess other countries have special plants and animals too.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar 18
@youless That's true - and everyone loves your pandas.
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@allknowing (136601)
• India
5 Mar 18
A bit confused. Are those flowers?
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@allknowing (136601)
• India
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv I still don't get it (lol) Here is what I found of the ornamental rhubarb
Ornamental Rhubarb - large plant, height 6 feet, width 4 feet
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
@allknowing There seems to be a couple of different species but with the same common name. There is also both an ornamental rhubarb and a 'giant' ornamental rhubarb. If you go to this link, the spike is similar to what we saw and what we photographed but the one in the link is at a different stage of its growth. At least I think that's the case.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Jump to: navigation, search APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: angiosperms • Cladus: eudicots • Cladus: core eudicots • Ordo: Gunnerales • Fami
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
The flower is a spike and all of the spike looks like this. I found out it's an ornamental rhubarb.
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@kavinitu (5535)
• India
4 Mar 18
Wow! What a Wonderful Shot taken by Vince
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
Thanks but I wish he'd taken one of the whole plant.
@Icydoll (36717)
• India
4 Mar 18
It's definitely a interesting photo ..good shot by Vince
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 18
Thanks but I really wanted one of the whole plant.
@Bullshark (3477)
• Netherlands
5 Mar 18
Could it perhaps be the 'Prickly Pear' cactus?
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar 18
I've managed to work out that it is a giant ornamental rhubarb so the mystery is solved now. The prickly pear is a curse in Queensland.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Mar 18
@Bullshark It was a huge pest. I think in the end they introduced a beetle which virtually wiped it out.
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@Bullshark (3477)
• Netherlands
6 Mar 18
@JudyEv Well done for solving the mystery of the unidentified huge cactus type plant :) I have read that at its peak in 1925, prickly pear covered 24 million hectares of Queensland and New South Wales.Yikes!
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
4 Mar 18
It is an amazing photo and plant.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar 18
Thanks. I've now found out it is an ornamental rhubarb. Have you ever eaten rhubarb?
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar 18
@anikoonline I liked it stewed with apple and made into a pie or else just eaten with custard. The leaves are poisonous but the stems are edible.
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• Hungary
5 Mar 18
@JudyEv I've never eaten rhubarb, but I think I had some drinks (maybe tea) that contained it. But I couldn't recognize any special taste.
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