The following 13 vegetables look like they have been harvested from alien lands. In reality they are all available to buy on planet earth!
1. Alien Broccoli
Romanesco Veronica cauliflower – or fractal cauliflower as it’s often called – is E.T.’s lettuce. The spiraling structure makes it look like a higher-intelligence cultivated it and left some behind for mankind to discover. Taste it: you won’t tell the difference from ordinary cauliflower.
2.Purple Carrots
If Bugs Bunny was born on Pluto, he would probably eat these. This is a hybrid plant – a mix between carrots and purple haze – and is a sweet variety of carrot (like baby carrots). Believe it or not, most carrots have a purple color in the wild. Domestic crops have turned orange after generations of breeding.
3. Okinawan Potato
If Earth (the blue planet) and Mars (the red planet) were to collide, I reckon one of the resulting hybrid species would be the Okinawan Purple Sweet Potato. Native to Okinawa, a small island controlled by Japan, this sweet potato is sweeter than its orange cousin and is often used in desserts.
4. pepper of the black island
The blue pepper only grows on Pududu Island, and tastes just like a traditional green pepper. The only difference is its otherworldly complexion. Don’t expect to see these at the local grocery store anytime soon; prices for “the pepper of the black island” are through the stratosphere.
5. Buddha’s Hand
No, this is not an alien hanging from its hair. This is what’s known as a Buddha’s Hand Citron, a bizarre Asian fruit that has no juice content. The fruit’s “flesh” is a single mass similar to the white coating on the inside of an orange rind. A strange texture, indeed, but tastes good and smells amazing.
6. Giant Cabbage
I can’t help but feel that giant aliens hate greens as much as Earthlings do, so they left this one behind. This cabbage head weighs 125.9 pounds… more than Angelina Jolie after an ice cream binge. The leaves span for 5 feet, the average height of a 13 year old buy. Eat at your own risk – it may try to bite you back.
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7. Messed Up Sweet Potato
So, this is Earth’s largest potato. It weighs in at 24.9 pounds and, as you can see, is twice the size of Khalil Semhat’s head. Semhat, the potato’s farmer, must have an alien-green thumb to grow something so… out of this world.
8. purple kohlrabi
Kohlrabi vegetables – also known as a German turnip – are the size of alien eyes and were once a favorite side during European Medieval times. They taste like broccoli stem, except sweeter.
9. Purple Cauliflower
Scientists say purple cauliflower differs from white cauliflower due to antioxidants known as anthocyanin. Available for purchase on Neptune? Maybe. Available in your local grocery store here on Earth? More than likely.
10. Coral Shaped Mushroom
Hericium coralloides is a terrestrial mushroom with alien ideas. Instead of “blooming” like its fungi brothers, it “explodes” in every which direction. The result is an edible mushroom that looks exactly like sea coral.
11. Pear Baby
Gao Xianzhang, a Chinese horticulturist, has intervened in the natural processes of nature to create something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Using specially designed molds, he grows altered pears that sell for £5 each. The pears resemble the praying Buddha, and taste like… you guessed it… regular pears.
12. Square Watermelon
The planet is round, not flat… and now watermelons are square, not round? Novelty items in Japan, these square watermelons are created with a unique planting and growing method. The Cone Heads couldn’t have come up with a better idea.
13. Lemon-Tomato!?
Green men aren’t the only ones that do scientific probes on other species. The Lemato (pictured above) is proof! A genetic cross of a tomato and a lemon, the Lemato exists solely because researchers wanted to see if they could make a tomato smell like lemons.
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You’re way too gullible.
Where is Pududu Island? I can’t find it!
Going to have to call BS on the blue pepper. No mention of The the Pududu islands anywhere on the interwebs. No info found about the Blue Pepper, either. Eat that one with a few fat grains of salt.
don’t forget to colour his fingers around the pepper next time. It still shows a green tinge. Amazingly enough though, not all of these are bogus!
Lemato is a total fail tho.
First, you could have included a picture of a Buddha’s Hand that wasn’t moldy! As for the lemato, nice photoshop work.
Yeah sorry about that – but it looked more creepy with mold on it. I actually believed in the lemato…nooooo
Your right.. i know think its photoshoped. Honestly thought it was real… been telling everyone about it for the past week – doh.
If i could only find the pududu islands….
Your right.. thanks for pointing it out
Heheh your right.. feel kinda foolish now.
Neither can i – doh. I think i have been tricked.
the core of the lemon and the core of the tomato dont line up. its horrible photoshop
purple carrots made from a cross between carrots and purple haze, eh? i wonder if you can smoke it, or get high from eating it.
What no Brussels sprouts? Look it up and you’ll KNOW it’s from an alien gene pool.
The Incas in the Andes Mountains also grow purple potatoes. That fellow who runs around eating strange foods found them about 2 years ago.
If you put vinegar on the purple cauliflower it will turn pink! I’m not sure if it will work on it raw, but if you steam the cauliflower, it works every time.
You missed rambutan and dragon fruit, both of which are real and definitely look bizarre.
“This is a hybrid plant – a mix between carrots and purple haze”
Er…
They’re just carrots.
I know they are freaking weird. My mum forces me to eat them every christmas.
My attempt at humour – sorry!
Thanks will check them out.
Blue does not exist in nature, all blue fruits and veggies are actually different shades of purple.
What about the seduberry from Australia?? Strawberries that grow in the shape of hearts.
http://www.seduberry.com/index.php
Blue does not exist in nature, all blue fruits and veggies are actually different shades of purple.
I think they’re really tasty fruit and earth … and they look great…..!!!!
The watermeln looks nice and real.I know it is very expensive.
I think the first hybridization took place between cabbage and radish. it was not successful.but it is in advance stage . everything is possible. I can only pray to God . good results will be seen.after all i am M. Sc . in Botany, was doing research in cytogenetics . but it was not completed.i think seduberry will give good result.