A gardener got the surprise on a day when she after digging up got a hand-shaped carrot complete with five fingers
Dianne Neal from Essex couldn't believe her eyes when she unearthed the bizarre root vegetable. The carrot, which resembles a right hand, has curved fingers of the right length, an outward pointing thumb and even a circular palm.
There are two main groups or cultivars of carrots - eastern and western. Although unusual, a carrot with multiple taproots like this one is not a special cultivar. Instead its strange shape is due to damage caused by growing in rocky soil.
And the handy carrot is not the first such human-like orange vegetable. In 2009, Peter Jackson, 66, found an almost identical carrot in the garden of his home in Shropshire .
He promptly cooked it and served it to his amazed daughter Lindsay.
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| The carrot grown by Dianne Neal resembles a right hand and even has a circular palm |
Lindsay, 42, said: 'We couldn't believe it, it was quite a shock to see a carrot perfectly shaped like a hand.
'You'd think that with me being a chef and my dad a gardener, we might have come across something this strange before - but we never have.
'My dad just seemed to make some joke about it being 'handy', took a picture and then I think they just ate it. He played it all down, but that's just the way dad is.
'We've not had anything weird since - no arms or legs to go with it. I don't think his garden is trying to build a carrot man. Now that would really be unusual.
'It was just one of those one-off freak of nature occurrences - but isn't it funny?'
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| Peter Jackson's root vegetable also resembles a right hand |
Eastern carrots are purple or yellow while western carrots, which developed around the 17th century, are typically orange.
The carrot gets its bright color from the substance carotene, which is broken down in humans to form vitamin A.
Vitamins A is important in keeping your eyes healthy, but unfortunately won't as your mother said help you see in the dark.
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