# What plant/animal cross would you love to see?

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**Created:** [November 23, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-plant-animal-cross-would-you-love-to-see/381562 "2006-11-23T17:15:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-plant-animal-cross-would-you-love-to-see/381562/41 "2006-11-29T21:58:50Z")

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[QUOTE=The King of Soup]

(Good Lord, “Run, lads, it’s the copse,” I swear the man deserves more punishment than I can give out).  
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I apologize for the atrocious wordplay, but it has its uses sometimes. See, another of my experiments involved the turf on my back lawn and a large one-horned pachydermatoid, and the resulting perennial rhinograss was getting seriously out of control, much as the hambush did. But I set about it with a _bon mot_ or two and pretty soon it was all neatly mown, with the obligatory contrasting stripes.

'Cos, y’know, the pun is mightier than the sward.

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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-plant-animal-cross-would-you-love-to-see/381562/42 "2006-11-29T22:48:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Lumpy]  
I have often thought that a science-fiction iceworld could have an ecology based on what I call “windplants”.  
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Set them in an Earthlike world… but one that doesn’t have a moon to skim off some of the atmosphere, like we do. The atmosphere would be much thicker, closer to that of Venus. More atmosphere= more wind and less sunlight. Windplants would be the way to go in those situations.

As for a plant-animal hybrid, I want The Magical Meat Bush. It’s a tree, or large shrub, which bears steaks of various cuts on its limbs. Let’s see you complain _now_, vegetarians!

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-plant-animal-cross-would-you-love-to-see/381562/43 "2006-11-30T00:02:42Z")

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How about a snake plant made of actualy snakes?

Or a spider plant made of actual spiders (ewwwwww)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-plant-animal-cross-would-you-love-to-see/381562/44 "2006-11-30T03:01:45Z")

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Hey, I know! How about a cross between a very young chicken and a philodendren? You could call it an **eggplant**!

d’oh!

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**Author:** ![Sherwin\_Nuland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sherwin\_Nuland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherwin_Nuland)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-plant-animal-cross-would-you-love-to-see/381562/45 "2006-11-30T03:29:30Z")

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A pug mixed with monkey mixed with an Eagle

Basically a flying monkey with a pug face and personality. (And no Eagle claws) It would be more a house and yard flying pug-monkey.

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