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"..Mickie Swall.." writes:
| Really Strange: I have a tomato that the seeds are literally sprouting from within and
| popping out of the skin - see the seven pictures taken on Thursday and another one just
| taken last night
| http://www.ofoto.com/AlbumMenu.jsp?U...1_274461001103
| (or http://www.ofoto.com my email mickie143@hotmail password: mickie). I've never seen or
| heard of anything like this before, is this freaky or something common that I've just
| never heard of?
| I bought this particular tomato at the grocery store, it had been sitting on the kitchen
| counter for at least a week or more... still firm and fresh as the day I bought it. A few
| days ago I noticed the first sprout and thought I'd let it happen just to see what kind of
| plant would develop. The seedling had already broken through the skin of the tomato, so I
| wasn't sure if it was a tomato seed or maybe another kind of seed (birdseed?) that had
| gotten in there somehow. I set the whole tomato on the kitchen windowsil and misted it
| from time to time, but the original seedling dried up. It was then that I noticed all the
| little breen pimples on the rest of the tomato... popped a few of them, and dang if there
| aren't little tomato plants sporuting out of them now.......should I contact the
| Department of Agriculture? Riplely's? Guinness?
| (Stephen King?.....nah...he'd never believe it........)
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Sounds like a teratoma. I'll contact the killer tomato people.