Field guide No. 735
Strawberry seeds hatch tiny frogs
Pick your own, at your own risk.
A ripe strawberry lies on a leaf with its seeds splitting open, and small green tree frogs climbing out of them. The punnet is going to be loud.
Field noteSeeds are a plant’s eggs only in a manner of speaking. This strawberry took it literally and frogs came out.
- Specimen
- No. 735
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A green leaf in a damp garden.
- Nearest existing relative
- A strawberry.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
Violet paint beetles escape the wallDrips are paint and beetles are beetles. These are both at once, alive at one end and dribbling at the other.
Bottomless fitted sheetA fitted sheet stretches over a hole in a lawn. The bed has misplaced its bottom.
An honest reflectionA mirror showing somewhere else is a mirror and a window at once. Mud on the sink takes the window’s side.
A fused wing of starlingsFlocks are many birds keeping apart. Here they are one bird and many at once, sharing a single wing.