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ArtistHybrid 50% animal 50% plant: Amazonian giant centipede (Scolopendra gigantea) x chenille plant (Acalypha hispida) Full width 16:9 illustration filling the entire image width of an Amazonian giant centipede (Scolopendra gigantea) x chenille plant (Acalypha hispida) hybrid. The tropical hybrid is shown close up. It displays dozens of very long, bright red, pendent, furry flower catkins consisting of Amazonian giant centipedes. The giant centipede catkins have hundreds of segments, each of which has legs on opposite sides of the segment. The bright red flower catkins appear to be furry with their many legs. The centipede catkins are surrounded by glossy, light-green, heart-shaped leaves with pronounced, parallel veins. The leaves suitably frame the dangerous centipede catkins. The plant hybrid fills the entire image, extending beyond the edges. The image is rendered in an appealing jumble of almost microscopically tiny, extremely intricate, elaborate, decorative patterns and scribbles. The entire image is rendered in very rich, vibrant, ultra-detailed colors in intense pen-and-colored-ink technique with high color contrast. The fully melded biological oddity is illustrated with painstaking precision in a detailed biology illustration style. Astonishing, impossible hybrid, extremely detailed, intricate illustration.
Hybrid with a deceptively harmless appearance. But both the plant part (euphorbia!) and the centipede part of this hybrid are poisonous, even fatal: "At least one human death has been attributed to the venom of S. gigantea.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_gigantea)