Planimal

I once found a life form neither animal nor plant, nor at all primitive either. It was a rootless parasitic shoot of some sort which was attached to several carrot plants with its pale tentacles, apparently posed to move toward neighboring carrots — if the position of the tender growth tip on one end but not at the other can be a guide. I saw the thing only once during my high school time, one afternoon, but failed to document it. Later, after all carrots had been harvested, the pale plant was unfortunately gone. To this day I’m chagrined by the lack of information, by my inexplicable failure of follow-up, by the paucity of my observations. To date this obscure plant, then, exists merely as a possibility of the natural world even though I have seen it and can vouch for it as being a firm reality. The complete lack of statistical fortification makes this entity not worthy of a name, even though suggestions like planimal should receive serious consideration.