My goodness! Is it all the strange weather do you think.....

The Flower Pot Men live again.

Ugh, its horrible, sorry Littlenic...

bamboo - it's like little shop of horrors isn't it?

I'd have to cut it off...

Whats in the centre?

honestly i'm afraid to go to close - it looks all weirded up in the centre too. shall i go take a close up?

*too close

bamboo - i can't cut it off it's my freaky foxglove! what's a freaky foxglove without it's freaky bits!?

Well, I guess its a curiosity...

Pamg looks like ovaries in the centre... Little house of horrors indeed - I'd have removed that pdq!

Do you guys live near nuclear power stations by any chance?

Take some more photo's, some close up. I want to see more!! Very interestingly weird!!!

Ug!

I want one !!!!! Don't chop it off! I really love glitches and freaks of nature, fascinates me :) Have been googling sports since hearing of them on here too!

Would seeds from a 'freak' plant like this be more likely to produce freak plants?

depends on the cause of the 'freak'. if all the flowers had been like this then there may be a chance from seed. but as it is just the one flower then I'd say no.

Thanks for sharing this but pleased my foxgloves don't look like this! Mind the top flowers haven't opened yet...!

It's called fasciation and can affect any plant whether on the flower or stems, You can collect the seeds, but they are likely to either be sterile, or revert back to normal. It is caused by damage or disease. I get loads of thing fasciating all over my garden every year, and I love it. It creates some really lovely shapes.

Ive only ever had fused stems on my Primula.....2nd hand - get up some pix of your interesting plants :) x

2ndhand - littlenic, on the other thread re peculiar foxgloves, has mentioned pelagoric foxgloves rather than its being fasciation or proliferation - look it up, its really interesting.
PS: I knew I'd got it wrong, its peloric, 2nd hand.

i did take some close ups - i'll pop the best one on a new thread as i don't know how to put another picture on this one. hope that isn't annoying

I can't say I'm looking forward to a close up, littlenic, I'm finding it repellent from a distance, never mind up close, lol!

Just searched peloric. Found this fine specimen...

http://mmmee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/peloric-foxgloves.html

sorry didn't mean to leave blank.

I just looked up Peloric, fascinating, and there was me thinking it was fasciation................
I did a blog a while back on the probs in my garden.

http://www.growsonyou.com/2ndhand/blog/11893-fascinating-fasciation

I have loads of photos, but i haven't sorted them out yet, when I do I will blog again.