Let's turn this into a kinky porn blog with a titillating photo of a gecko servicing a Trochetia flower.
What do we call this? It can't be bestiality or zoophilia, since this is actually trans-kingdom.
You know that I'm on a slippery slope here…once you start flashing photos of Animalia getting it on with Plantae, the next step in degeneracy is dirty talk about horizontal gene transfer between whole domains.
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