Those flowers are sending off some form of primitive flight or fight response in my brain. Their appearance is unnatural and unsettling.
Do you want Little Shop of Horrors? Because this is how you get Little Shop of Horrors!
These free-for-all marketplaces are just going to suffocate under a barrage of scams. Ebay is already the world’s biggest stolen goods fence.
Don’t buy seeds on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc - they are so full of scammers that it is impossible to weed out the legitimate sellers from the fake. And if you get fake ones, you may get invasive species that are harmful to the environment around you.
Most places have some great local sellers. But if you’re buying online I would recommend dedicated places like Canada’s Vesey’s Seeds, West Coast Seeds, or the US’s Prairie Moon
Someone gifted me a bonsai kit off amazon that i cant use because every single seed packet is an invasive plant in my area. Unless the person who gifted it to me looked up every plant type, which is a big ask for them ability-wise, there was no way for them to have known from the product listing.
Yet another reason to plant seeds of species that are native to your region, and purchase them from reputable sources
If they don’t exist how can they be exotic
I’m selling this sunflower seed. !!! Only 50 sun !!!
Ah! An AI use case.
At some level of stupidity, I think we should let the scammer win.
like, that’s just a stupid tax, they deserve to be scammed.
No lmao these things are being sold on ETSY and Amazon and a bunch of businesses that need to protect their market participants lmfaoooo. the responsibility is on who ever is hosting these scams, I report them all the time.
Honestly there’s so many weird flowers out there it can be hard to tell truth from fiction. Yeah these are AI generated, but look at all the other flowers that are real:
- Lambs ear
- Sea holly
- Teddy Bear sunflowers are real even
- Protea “Little Prince”
- Hoya Multiflora
Lots of very interesting flowers out there.
FYI the bottom right in the picture is a real sunflower call Sun Gold.
https://www.applewoodseed.com/product/sunflower-dwarf-sungold/
Of course only comes in yellow.
Used to buy succulent seeds online, and sadly there were a fair number of scammers selling seeds for what appeared to be gorgeous, but non-existent photoshopped succulents.
Scammers gotta scam, and AI makes it easy.
Dr Seuss ahh flowers
Also accurate, if cold, shadenfreude title:
A fool and their money are soon partedI prefer gparted over parted.
Oh I like you.
“Ah, yes… a 2m tall flower would look great next to my Day of the Triffids merch! Oh, and a starz-n-stripes container plant would be ideal for my shouty, flag-waving neighbour… Take my money!”
We are so doomed as a society.
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