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Ever see anything in your garden out of the ordinary or something that made you say, 'wow' or 'oh, neat!'! Please share!

I'll start the ball rolling by showing this Micro Tom seedling that was born with a 'parasitic twin' seed leaf. I know it's natural for a seedling to (on rare occasion) sport three seed leaves, but seed leaves 2 and 3 on this Micro Tom are merged together with a split at the end. This second Micro Tom was also born with 3 seed leaves, but seed leaf 3 seems to want to grow overlapping leaf 2.

Probably the oddest one I have seen was the flowers that were cojoined on a bottle gourd, and resulted in a fruit cojoined, sort of like Siamese twins! I posted this a couple of years ago:
DSCF0685 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

DSCF0686 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

DSCF0718 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

DSCF0719 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

That is totally neat!

Found two hearts today. One in the sky and one made out of pollen. Weird.

Came across a burst of baby mantises that hatched out on the back porch railing! Super adorable and teeny tiny.

This big bertha looks like it has a nose or is sticking out a tongue. I'm assuming it's a parasitic twin.