The peculiar vegetable tips the scale at about 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds), was first spotted by a Japanese farmer

Jan 26, 2015 15:30 GMT  ·  By

It's not all that often than radishes make headlines, and rightfully so. Let's face it, they aren't the best-looking vegetables ever to spring from the ground, and not to be too harsh or anything of the sorts, but they don't taste all that great either.

Still, it was its looks that landed a radish grown on Japanese soil in the news. Mind you, not because this vegetable is insanely gorgeous. On the contrary, the reason photos of this one radish are now making rounds online is that the vegetable very much resembles a human foot.

The plump, white foot that is actually a radish

The peculiar vegetable, featured in the photo accompanying this article, was pulled from the ground by a Japanese farmer named Yukihiro Ikeuchi, who was just minding his own business when he chanced to stumble upon it.

Metro tells us that the radish tips the scale at about 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) and measures about 30 centimeters (some 11.8 inches) in length. Otherwise put, it does not only look like a human foot but is about the same size of such a body part.

Mind you, this foot-shaped radish even comes complete with some odd appendages that look strikingly similar to toes. The only downside it that a sprouting head of leaves sits where its ankle should be.

The radish is now a local celebrity

Rather than sell it or use it to make salad or soup, as he does with almost all the other vegetables he grows on his lands not far from the town of Ayagawa in southern Japan, farmer Yukihiro Ikeuchi decided to hold on to this odd specimen.

Apparently, the reason the farmer refused to part with the radish was that he feared that others might not appreciate its quirkiness quite as much as he does. Hence, the vegetable is now on display at the Fureai Center Ryonan in the town of Ayagawa.