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This person accidentally bought a giant fern—and it’s hilarious

Twitter users were quick to ask the important questions, like what’s the fern’s name?  

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Sierra Juarez

Riley Leight Twitter fern

Most of us have had the experience of buying something online and it not being exactly what we expected when we receive it. Riley Leight shared a story on Twitter about such an incident after buying a fern described as “large” only to later find out that “large” was an understatement.

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“i bought a fern that was simply described as ‘large’ and i did not know what the f*ck i was getting myself into,” Leight wrote on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/RileyRLeight/status/1216423628998414336

The tweet also included a photo of the gigantic fern, which completely fills the trunk of a car and could be better described as a mini tree. Leight continued describing the shock of buying the monstrously big, $40 fern.

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“no matter where we put it it looks menacingly gigantic,” Leight wrote.

https://twitter.com/RileyRLeight/status/1216458775961505799

People loved the hilarious story and were quick to ask the important questions–like what’s the fern’s name, and would Leight put googly eyes on it?

https://twitter.com/RileyRLeight/status/1216788507601055744

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Twitter users took matters into their own hands after Leight announced that the fern would not have googly eyes.

https://twitter.com/FailShark/status/1216502571164147713

https://twitter.com/edenthecat/status/1216467123960274944

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https://twitter.com/CarlyPalmour/status/1216492589299335174

Leight’s Twitter thread also prompted a weird subset of tweets, in which people shared similar stories about big plants.

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“Wait, I did the same thing with some local freebox hostas! They were…bigger than expected,” Twitter user @kittylongmuto wrote.

https://twitter.com/kittylongmuto/status/1216558792575520768

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Whether or not they have names and googly eyes, we’re happy all these big plants have good homes.

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