Monday, March 15, 2010

What Is This?

 
Some of you might not be regular readers of Panda's Thumb. If you're one of them, shame on you. Check it out to see what kind of an organism is shown in the photo. Is it animal, plant, fungus, protist, or bacterium?


6 comments:

  1. My guess was sponge... The correct answer would probably be last on my guess list.

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  2. I feel shamed. Howe come nobody told me about Panda's Thumb? Oh... maybe because I don't talk to people. Thanks for the intro, though! Subscribed now.

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  3. My guess would be one of those weird stone-looking succulents...

    Gonna go over and check...

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  4. Hell yah! I KNEW hanging out in the gardening section of Home Depot in my childhood while my parents were shopping would pay off someday =P

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  5. It is a doughnut. And old one at that - do you see mold growing at one side of it?

    ;-)

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  6. It looks like a variety of lithops, a succulent.

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