


In addition to the destruction and alteration of the plant life, the livestock of the Gardner farm, which was in close proximity, underwent strange and grotesque mutations and fell into a gruesome state of grayish decay before ultimately dying, leaving behind a useless and inedible meat. The flowers would glow in the darkness and the trees seemed to reach out to the sky and move without the wind. Along with the discoloration came the ruining of fruit and vegetables grown along with the abnormal behavior of the plants during the night. In the later stages of the infection, the plants became grey and developed “a highly singular quality of brittleness”. It appeared to have "infected" the local plant life and the results were great discolorations in the flowers, grass, and trees. It arrived on Earth via meteorite, and infected a large swath of Arkham, Massachusetts that would subsequently become known as the "Blasted Heath." The colour was said to have "poisoned" the soil around where it had landed. The Colour Out of Space was an extraterrestrial force or entity featured in H.P. It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well-seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognisable chromaticism. Howard Phillips Lovecraft 🔀 You may be looking for story of the same name “
