Visit the Mutatoes Collection!
Mother nature is funny. Natural mutations are occurring in the world all around us, especially with regards to food crops. But we never see them because anything that appears abnormal is filtered out before it hits our grocery stores.
Uli Westphal, however, has done a fantastic job of hunting down mutant fruits and vegetables at the farmer’s market in Berlin and has meticulously and professionally photographed and cataloged them for us all to see.
There must be a couple hundred of them, and although I’m not a big fan of the browsing mechanism (hover your mouse toward the left or right on the list of fruit to scroll), the photos are beautiful and some of the fruits and veggies are amazing.
Here is the intro to the Mutatoes Collection:
Being a collection of
non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables
found at Berlins farmers markets,
the Mutato-Project serves to document and archive
these last survivors of biological variety.
When you’re done looking at mutant fruit, I recommend you go check out the Pictures of 200 Calories of Various Foods.
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Even if they are natural, I’ll still keep my dinner plate away from that salad!
neat pics :)
I’ve seen some strange veggies come out of the garden b4, never knew someone was keeping track of them.
I have noticed lately that my bell peppers I am buying have baby bell peppers inside them.
Oh man, I wish I still had the picture link – someone posted a collection of mushrooms, supposedly near chernobyl (though if that’s factual or not wasn’t verified), where several mutations were present. There were some cool ones, but none as colorful as these.
i never knew it could become a collection, but still interesting
some of it looks twisted and deformed that it doesn’t look what its supposed to