A FIVE-centimetre fir tree has been found growing inside a man's body.
Artyom Sidorkin, 28, complained to his doctor that he had strong pain in in his chest and was coughing blood.
Doctors in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.
Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.
“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.
The five-centimetre branch was removed from the patient’s body.
“They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease,” Sidorkin says.
“It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me.”
The five-centimetre branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.
Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study.
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Its bullshit, the thing looks like he inhaled a branch.
Shenanigans.
Not true, the needles wouldn’t be green without sunlight, even if the plant somehow got the nutriants to grow. Photosynthesis, people…
I actually sent this story to Snopes to ask them to look into it. Sounds improbable to me, as well.
LOL @ the idiot.
Trees aren’t green due to sunlight, they’re green cuz they have clorophyll, something they are born with.
Granted, the chlorophyll helps with photosynthesis, but photosynthesis does not create the color green.
You are an idiot and should die to help humans evolve. But since you are an idiot, you will not see how much your death would help mankind and will continue with your pathetic anonymous life.
Are you retarded? It doesn’t need sunlight if it is getting its nutrients from the body. Idiots.
@ The Devil: Yes its true that plants are green because of chlorophyll, but it it also true that plants to not produce chlorophyll if not exposed to light.
Keep a plant in darkness for a week and you’ll see how the leaves turn yellow. Cholorophyll is only active and green in sunlight
LOL @ The Devil.
Trees are green due to sunlight, they’re green cuz they have clorophyll, something they are born with, and which is used to convert carbon dioxide into sugars, used by the tree to grow.
You are an idiot and should die to help humans evolve. But since you are an idiot, you will not see how much your death would help mankind and will continue with your pathetic anonymous life.
poster number 3 the fact that its green doesn’t do anything photosynthesis has nothing to do with pigment, pigment is what we see that makes color so it would still look green although i agree BS
put something out on your lawn for a week, then pick it up. What color is the grass? Think before posting, please. And if the plant wouldn’t need sunlight because it was getting nutrients from it’s (supposed) parasitic host, would the the same apply to a plant in the ground that is getting it’s nutrients from the soil? I guess plants don’t need sunlight now, huh?
The nutrient content of the soil is very different from that of a person’s blood. Soil doesn’t have sugar, which is what a plant makes in photosynthesis. The person’s blood does have sugar. Still improbable, but don’t make it sound like the thing didn’t have the nutrients to survive. It’s just odd that the environment of his lung would be conductive to seed germination.
it’s not just odd, it’s impossible. first off, the sugars needed aren’t identical (two seperate types of sugar.) Second, the roots of any plant aren’t capable of uptaking sugar, much less detaching it from the molecules the sugar attaches to whilst being transported in blood. Third, the creation of sugar via photosynthesis is only a step in the creation of ATP, which is what plants use for energy. The sugar to ATP process requires cellular respiration whilst the sugar is still in the leaves, where air can access the cells via the stomata. Unless their xylem and phloem can reverse flow and/or carry chemicals they weren’t meant to carry (can your veins do that?) then sugar could not be obtained via the roots. To reiterate, photosynthesis is a necessary function towards the survival of plants so I hope that guy has a grow light in his lungs.
ok for one you’re all morons for thinking that that above image is the actual piece of plant that was taken out of the guy. and thats about it. just wanted to say that.
inorite?
Before even getting into the whole debate on how plants grow, if he was an otherwise normal, healthy human being, his immune system would have attacked and destroyed the foreign object that had entered his lung before it had begun to grow.
I’d sure be concerned about that above all else if I found anything plant-like growing inside one of my vital organs… mostly because if my body didn’t recognise something like that existing within my body, what’s it going to miss that could kill me a lot faster?
It is beyond farfetched.
Listen ppl, the leaves are green because God makes them green. This is just scientific fact. If God wanted to make them pink, he could do that too…so screw your photonsynthesis.
Rofl ^^
lol @ god + scientific fact
the story is bs just like your ‘god’
our bodies have too many filters between our mouth/nostrils and our lungs for anything that large to get in there that easily. plus, pneumonia can result from the slightest bit of vomit aspirated, that numskull would have had a serious infection.
plus, everyone knows trees are extinct.
It’s spreading!! The plants get inside you and drive you crazy! Didn’t any of you see The Ruins? Oh wait… nobody went to see The Ruins. But if you had you’d instantly recognize the lethal pathology of these plants!
a few years ago i left a frisbie in the front yard through the winter, after about 6 feet of snow had fallen and had melted, i went and pick up the frisbie.. the grass was greener and healthier in that little circle than the whole lawn.. but that doesnt mean i believe this bs story,
mold, mildew, and fungi can grow in a human body, so why not a tree?
That photo above the post is what is called a ’stock photo’. This ‘blog post doesn’t link back to the source; I saw the same topic posted in an article on the Russia Today website. Someone needs their hand slapped for bad reporting.
It is possible for molds to take up residence in lungs but as stated previously fir trees need light to grow.
looks legit to me.
didn’t you ever do an experiment in fifth grade where one plant grows in a closet and one in the window? the one in the closet actually grows taller, though less leafy, because it is still searching for sunlight. a seed is planted a few inches underground, and is programmed to grow upwards, even without the sun, until it does find it.
this was reported on the news in new york on 1010AM radio. they usually dont bullshit.
ok, I got bored of reading so I don’t know if anyone clarified the green issue.
Plants are green because of the pigments called chlorophylls. When a plant is kept in darkness it will etiolate (lose it’s pigment). Chances are very slim that the plant would be able to get the sugars it needs from a human lung and would not last long under those conditions unless it punctured the lung to get CO2.
Hi, well, I’m not going to call people idiots or say anything ridiculous… but i am going to mention some things.
The type of tree is stated in the title, Fir tree. Christmas trees are in this category obviously. They are Evergreens. While evergreens do turn yellow when they are nearing death, if it’s getting enough nutrients from the body, being an evergreen, it will be green even without sunlight unlike other trees and plants.
Which means this is entirely possible, just unlikely. The human body contains a LOT of nutrients so the plant could be getting enough to produce food without sunlight. If it wasn’t an evergreen, it wouldn’t be green, but a evergreen is just that, EVERGREEN, as long as it isn’t dieing then it will keep it’s color, and since the thing was GROWING it wasn’t dieing.
So basically, it’s possible from what i’ve seen, researched and heard. Just very unlikely, because, come on, he has a plant INSIDE him, i’ve seen painful pictures of plants growing on some people on the OUTSIDE but… seriously. Oh, a few more notes…
-It’s possible I’m wrong, I’m not perfect, but i don’t think i am.
-It’s weird i found this, i just got done planting some stuff a bit ago. My hands are a bit red yet i still find the nerd strength to type…
-Please be a bit more polite to each other, just because you don’t know something doesn’t make you an idiot. It annoys me to see people insult each other just as much as it annoys me to see someone make a few word comment to were they really make no point.
If one sees a picture of the actual plant, it is not green; the picture at the top of the article was just showing what sort of plant was found. Also realize that plants initially grow underground without sunlight, relying on nutrients from the seedpod and soil until they reach the surface.
several national newspapers carried images of this, clearly showing the needles sticking out of the tissue of the mans lung
This is tottally Shopped. I can tell from the shadows and reflections being all wrong.
HOLY CRAP, IT’S THE HAPPENING!!!!!!