Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 21st, 2009
The 1979 Chevy K-10 Blazer has a 400ci small block V-8 with an Edlebrock “Performer” intake topped with a Carter 800 cfm 4-barrel carburetor. Graphic images.
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 27th, 2008
It appears this one has been hiding in plain sight. Image.
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 6th, 2008
The stories are the precursors and often directly influence contemporary “killer plant” science fiction and fantasy books and films.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 6th, 2008
On May 2nd, I ran the story here about George Yatskievych, the scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden who has rediscovered and identified a rare parasitic plant (above). A single specimen of the plant was found in Mexico in 1985. The plant wasn’t seen again until St. Louis botanist George Yatskievych and a [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 2nd, 2008
A plant only its mother and father could love? It looks beautiful to me. This is a cryptobotany triumph. This rediscovered parasitic plant was found June 12, 2006, in Guerrero, Mexico, and not seen since 1985. Photograph by George Yatskievych.
A scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered and identified a rare parasitic [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 25th, 2008
Ohio has a secret, which has been revealed a bit. A secret tree, that is. The state has kept their secret for seven years. They retain part of the hidden knowledge about the above pictured tree, because they aren’t telling anyone where it is located.
This Ohio treasure’s existence was closely guarded until [...]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 24th, 2008
Harry Trumbore’s drawing of Madagascar’s kalanoro, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates.
New species of lemurs keep being discovered in Madagascar. But there’s a long history of other cryptids being reported from the world’s fourth largest island.
Besides the big three (Kalanoro, Elephant Bird, and Man-Eating Tree) that have historically been most [...]
Read: Madagascar’s Cryptids »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 28th, 2008
Remember the recent story of the discovery of a rat-eating pitcher plant? Do they or don’t they? Rats! Or not?
It sure kicked up a few pro and con feelings about the whole issue.
Some people wondered if pitcher plants can actually “eat” (i.e. dissolve and digest) rats?
Despite scientific literature saying it happens, skeptics exist.
Are [...]
Read: Rats! Or Not? »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 24th, 2008
Photo by Robert Coffan – The Psathyrella aquatica mushroom, pictured above, was recently discovered by scientists in the Rogue Valley, Oregon.
The Southern Oregon University environmental studies and biology faculty will share their discovery of a new species of mushroom that grows underwater – the first of its kind – in a presentation tomorrow in Ashland, [...]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 22nd, 2008
Nepenthes tenax
Here is another one for your cryptobotany file!
It is not a cow-eating tree from India – (as per here, here, and here) – , but a rat-eating pitcher plant from Australia.
A rare new species of plant that eats small rats has been discovered at the tip of Cape York.
Pitcher plants, otherwise known as flesh-eating [...]
Read: Rat-Eating Plant Discovered »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 17th, 2008
New findings are everywhere, sometimes even when you happen to be on picnic!
The palm will be called Tahina spectabilis which is Malagasy for blessed or to be protected. Tahina is the name of one of the discoverer Xavier Metz’s daughters.
The most important new species of palm for 50 years has been discovered by a family [...]
Read: New Monster Palm Discovered »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 28th, 2007
Still more on the “India’s Cow-Eating Trees”.
A fascinating video report from tvdaijiworld India has been broadcast about the cow-eating tree, the eyewitness villagers, and the cow.
Here is the footage, hosted by Gloria Rodrigues:
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Update: David Pescovitz at Boing Boing did a good job of capturing a couple frames from the video, here.
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 28th, 2007
You saw the posting here entitled “India’s Cow-Eating Trees”, and then might have seen it was picked up by Boing Boing. As David Pescovitz wrote, “Loren Coleman detours into ‘cryptobotany.’” Ah, the path less traveled.
Map: The entire distribution range of the Venus Flytrap. Did they come down in a meteorite impact?
Since then, there’s [...]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 23rd, 2007
Depiction of a native being consumed by a Ya-te-veo (“I can see you”) carnivorous tree of Central America, from Land and Sea by J.W. Buel, 1887. Source: Wikipedia. (The image appears to be from a woodcut, naturally.)
In Roy Mackal’s book, Searching for Hidden Animals (NY: Doubleday, 1980), his last chapter is entitled “The Monstrous Plants.” [...]
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