21 Photos Of Unusually Funny-Shaped Fruits And Vegetables

Nature is that it never ceases to impress us. I’m talking about things like unique rock formations, amazing clouds-rainbow, lush forests or even something as simple as a funny shaped fruit or vegetable. And today we’re all about the latter. From alien-looking pickles to yams that look like severed hands, check out a collection of vegetables and fruit that look like other things in the gallery below.

The unusual shape can also be forced upon the vegetable. In Japan, farmers of the Zentsuji region found a way to grow square watermelons by growing the fruits in glass boxes and letting them naturally assume the shape of the receptacle. The square-shaped watermelon was intended to make the melons easier to stack and store, but because the melons must be picked before they are ripe they are inedible; the cubic watermelons are also often more than double the price of normal watermelons. Using similar techniques, growers have also created more complex shapes of watermelon, including dice, pyramids, and faces.