A discovery of ‘mutant daisies’ has been made near the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
Twitter user San Kaido posted the pictures of the flowers, that appear to show stems and flowers connected to each other.
Others appear slightly deformed, and have prompted fears that radiation is affecting the area.
San Kaido wrote alongside the picture: “The right one grew up, split into 2 stems to have 2 flowers connected to each other, having 4 stems of flower tied belt-like.
“The left one has 4 stems grew up to be tied to each other and it had the ring-shaped flower.
“The atmospheric dose is 0.5 μSv/h at 1m above the ground.”
However, while the flowers may well be from Fukushima, their strange look may not necessarily be the result of radiation.
Plants and flowers can produce longer looking heads as a result of a natural condition known as fasciation.
Hormonal imbalances in the plant are usually to blame, although bacterial and viral infections can also produce the mutations.
Three of the Fukushima’s six nuclear reactors went into meltdown in 2011 when the plant was hit by a tsunami - the result of a huge earthquake.
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