Just look at this gnarly conjoined banana.

Just look at it.

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: bananas • happy mutants • just look at it • wide

More at Boing Boing

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Hackers prepare for first "national holiday" in their honor

http://www.last.fm/user/kraniac/ Shazbot

I’d eat it.
dr15

I ate one of those once. It was awesome.
John Hattan

Ray Comfort is currently working this picture into his creationism presentations to show how God even designed special bananas for conjoined twins.
Wingnut

“Now that’s just not right.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT76KTpqpvI
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Furlan/100001714280829 John Furlan

The banana posts are the best.
oasisob1

Bananas don’t have seeds, so how did you think they made more?
- pjcamp
  
  Of course bananas have seeds. But through selective breeding, diploid and polyploid forms have been produced that reduce the seeds to a very tiny size. Next time you eat one, look at all those tiny black specks. Those are the seeds.
Lobster

For some reason it reminds me of alligators.
FusionEnvy

Behold the atheists nightmare. Now if you study a well made banana you will … http://boingboing.net/2008/06/09/bananas-are-atheist.html
flappy

Alex Van Halen’s dream rendered in peelable snack foods.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Forposting/100002531076048 Justin Forposting

I am trying to remember where I’d seen that before… I think it might have something to do with Rule 34.
Randy Walters

I know what you’re thinking.
- Felton / Moderator
  
  How did you know I was thinking of two moray eels sharing a sleeping bag?
  - Randy Walters
    
    Good recovery.
  - s2redux
    
    Two eels sharing a sleeping bag? That’s a Moray!
  - steamed punk
    
    The left one definitely the most eel looking face I have ever seen on a conjoined banana.
allium

Bananae?
steamed punk

Thanks for posting, Cory!

Here is the unopened conjoined banana and an alternate view from the rear. As for the taste I was surprised that they didn’t taste the same. The one on the right tasted better. The one on the left was a bit overripe. .
Captdrastic

I saw that happen once in a bathhouse.
heavystarch

diphallus banana
euansmith

It looks like they are about to punch through the viewer’s space helmet, a la “Alien” or “Preposterous”.
http://profile.yahoo.com/A2OG2WGISSGQK6EUDXRNSLIELA Missy

It’s the Fukushima Banana, twice the flavor and potassium as your ordinary banana. As a new species found, do you get to name it and patent its genetic material?
Me

Seeing as how all bananas are clones of each other, that must mean that something in the environment caused that to happen. I wonder what is was?