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Unusually shaped vegetable : ウィキペディア英語版
Unusually shaped vegetable

An unusually shaped vegetable is a vegetable or fruit that has grown into an unusual shape not in line with the normal body plan. While some examples are just oddly shaped, others are heralded for their amusing appearance, often because they resemble a body part such as the buttocks or genitalia. Pareidolia can be common in vegetables, with some people reporting the appearance of religious imagery.
==Causes==

Vegetables usually grow into an unusual shape due to environmental conditions. Damage to one part of the vegetable can cause the growth to slow in that area while the rest grows at the normal rate. When a root vegetable is growing and the tip is damaged, it can sometimes split, forming multiple roots attached at one point. If a plant is in the primordium (embryonic development) stage, damage to the growing vegetable can cause more extreme mutations.〔Plant Answers. "(Why are some of my vegetables growing into such odd and unusual shapes? )". Retrieved 5 June 2007.〕
The unusual shape can also be forced upon the vegetable. In Japan, farmers of the Zentsuji region found a way to grow cubic watermelons by growing the fruits in glass boxes and letting them naturally assume the shape of the receptacle. The square shape supposedly makes the melons easier to stack and store, but the cubic watermelons are often more than double the price of normal ones.〔BBC News. 15 June 2001. "(Square fruit stuns Japanese shoppers )". Retrieved 5 June 2007.〕 Using similar techniques, growers have also created more complex shapes of watermelon, including dice, pyramids, and faces.〔PingMag. 12 July 2007. "(Funny Shaped Japanese Watermelons )". Retrieved 13 July 2007.〕
If carrots are grown in soil which has been manured that year, some of the carrots are strange shapes because the young carrot plant's roots go off in odd directions, drawn by irregular pockets of manured soil.

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