# When nature grosses you out

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 12, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612 "2007-03-12T15:48:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/167 "2007-03-17T20:32:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Beaucarnea]  
Confession: I have a _vulgar garden_. When it blooms this summer, I will enclose pics. It is full of [calla lillies](http://images.google.com/images?q=calla+lily&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title) ,[peter peppers.](http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=peter+pepper), and [clitoria](http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=clitoria). It is planted around my front door, and visitors take note, look perplexed, then choose to say nothing. Cracks me up.  
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I can ignore any indecent resemblance in all except the Peter Peppers. You can’t ignore that, but it’s phalic not gross. Here’s the phalic Dog Stinkhorn and the Clathrus. [Fungus link](http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2006.html)  
Chum you reminded me of something else gross.  
[Slime mold.](http://plant_doctor.typepad.com/the_seasoned_gardener/2006/08/dont_blame_the_.html)

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