If there’s a way, nature finds it. So when Donna Porée (@donna9p) locked up her apartment to quarantine with her husband, the sack of potatoes she left behind refused to give up and just rot. No, no… The potatoes had searched for sources of life throughout the whole 3 months of Donna’s absence.

When the woman came back home, she couldn’t believe the progress the vegetables have made. “It’s very surprising but the potatoes have punctured through the joints of my kitchen,” Donna told Bored Panda.

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While cleaning up, Donna decided against eating the potatoes or throwing them away. After all, their tremendous will to live demanded something a little more respectful. “I carefully removed them from my apartment and replanted them in a vegetable patch outside,” Donna explained.

In the process of doing so, there was one more thing that needed to be taken care of. “When I was relocating the potatoes, I couldn’t help myself and measured their sprouts. To my amazement, some were almost 1 meter (3.3 feet) long!”

After seeing Donna’s pics, people started sharing their own photos of accidental potato sprouts.

#1 And Now We Know Where Pringles Come From

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#2 This Bag Of Potatoes In My Basement.

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#3 Sweet Potato Sprouting

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#4 Potatoes Were Hiding In My Pantry. They Look Like Some Sort Of Sea Creature

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#5 When You Left Somewhere 5 Months Ago, Come Back And Didn’t Realise You’d Left Some Potatoes In A Cupboard

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#6 I Had A Heart Attack

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#7 Box Of Potatoes That Has Been Left Unopened For About A Year

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#8 I Forgot About The Last Of The Potatoes

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#9 My Dad Found A Horror Potato Sprouting In The Back Of Our Pantry Drawer

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#10 Old Potatoes Planted This Morning

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#11 Forgotten Purple Potatoes

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#12 Apparently If You Rotate A Sprouting Potato Every Few Days, They Get Confused.

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#13 This Is What Happens When You Leave A Bag Of Potatoes In A Closet For Almost A Year

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#14 My Potato Is Ripe I Think

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#15 I See Your Tomato, And I Offer You A Bucket Of Seedy Potatoes And One Kitty

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#16 The Microwavable Potatoes I Left Over Winter Break Sprouted

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#17 Left A Sprouting Sweet Potato In My Cupboard For A Little Over A Year. Here Are The Results.

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#18 A Potato I Found Under My Kitchen Counter Looks Like Some Sort Of Alien Forest

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#19 We Forgot About Our Bag Of Potatoes And They Sprouted…a Lot

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#20 These Sprouting Potatoes

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#21 My Friend Forgot About A Bag Of Potatoes She Bought Six Months Ago.

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#22 I Started Cleaning Out My Nest. I Began In The Kitchen, Here Are Some Potatoes That I Left In The Cupboard For Almost A Year.

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#23 Found A Old Bag Of Potatoes Behind The Washing Machine…gone Alien With 3ft Roots

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#24 The Way This Potato Sprouted

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#25 Found A Sprouted Potato At Work…

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#26 This Potato Has Been Growing For 3 Weeks

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#27 Yesterday I Turned This Potato Upside Down, And Today I Got A Practical Lesson In Gravitropism, The Tendency Of Plants To Alter Their Growth With Respect To Gravity. Bonus: It Turned Into A Lobster

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#28 Delicate Sweet Potato Sprouts Look Unearthly And Beautiful, Like Martian Coral

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#29 What Happens When You Leave Potatoes In The Cellar For 6 Months

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#30 I Found This Sprouted Potato Today, Which Was Hiding In A Cupboard For Along Time. The Roots Tell The Whole Story That The Plant Cant Tell. .seems Like A Familiar Story? Welcome To The Lazy Gardeners Club

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#31 This Box Of Potatoes That I Left In The Cupboard For 3 Months

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#32 What Once Happened To Some Potatoes I Bought After Being Forgotten For 1,5 Months.

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#33 Left These Potatoes In A Dark Cupboard.

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#34 Found A Monster In The Cabinet Sprouted Potato Grew Through The Funnel

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#35 Same Story

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#36 This Tiny Potato Has A Very Long Sprout

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#37 Have You Ever Reached Into A Dark Pantry And Scared The Living S**t Outta Yourself With A Potato? No? Me Either

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#38 This Sprouted Sweet Potato I Forgot In My Pantry Looks Weirdly Pretty

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#39 Sprouting-Potatoes

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#40 Sooo I Forgot I Had Potatoes…

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#41 These Potatoes In The Drawer.

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#42 I Forgot This Potato At The Bottom Of My Fridge For 2 Months

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#43 Sprouting Potatoes Breaking Through The Plastic Bag They’re Trapped In

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#44 Sooo I Forgot I Had Potatoes

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#45 Strange Potato

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#46 I Think Today’s The Day These Spuds Will Go In The Ground!

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#47 Won’t Be Photographing Any Mountains Or Foreign Destinations In The Foreseeable Future So I Decided To Take Some Shots Closer To Home

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#48 Looks Like I’ll Be Planting Some Potatoes Today

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#49 Me: “Mum, Do You Have Any Potatoes?”Mum: “Yes, Plenty In The Cupboard!”*opens Cupboard & Shrieks*?: “Feed Me, Seymour!”

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#50 I Told Rakesh He Was Getting These Sprouting Potatoes For Dinner…he Wasn’t Amused!

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#51 Ooops! Best Get Planting!!! These Are Well And Truly Chitted

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#52 Sprouting Potatoes, Stuff Of Nightmares.

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#53 This Potato Sprouted While It Was In The Back Of The Cabinet.

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#54 My Housemate Left This Potato In Her Cupboard For So Long That It Started Growing An Entirely New Plant

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#55 This Bag Of Potatoes I Forgot About Have Grown Quite A Bit

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#56 I Guess I Forgot About A Potato I Had. Found This At The Bottom Of A Bucket When I Went To Make Dinner.

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#57 This Potato

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#58 I Left A Potato In My Kitchen Cabinet For 3 Months And Then I Found It Like This.

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#59 I Forgot About My Potatoes For A Couple Months

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#60 This Sprouting Potato

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#61 This Potato Fell Under A Display Table Months Ago, And Now Look What It’s Turned Into

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#62 Some Potatoes I Forgot About In My Cabinet Started Sprouting

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#63 Potatoes Are Sprouting Inside My Cabinet.

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#64 Found These Aliens In My Kitchen Cupboard

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#65 A Forgotten Sweet Potato Turned Into A Sprouting Beauty. I Had It For Dinner But Really I Just Wanted To Leave It And Watch It Grow

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#66 Oops

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#67 Sprouting Potatoes

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