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Extreme Pumpkin Carving Gallery

By: Felicia Feaster
Check out the inspired and wild pumpkin designs featured at the New York Botanical Garden every fall.
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Photo: Image courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden/Photo by Victor Chu

Venus Flytrap Pumpkin

Pumpkin carving impresario Ray Villafane works on an artful pumpkin for the New York Botanical Garden's 2013 Haunted Pumpkin Garden.

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Photo: Image courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden/Photo by Victor Chu

Carnivorous Pumpkin

The theme of this year's New York Botanical Garden extreme pumpkin carving display is man-eating carnivorous plants crafted by Ray Villafane for the Haunted Pumpkin Garden.

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Photo: Image courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden/Photo by Victor Chu

Pumpkin Master

Master carver Ray Villafane plies his trade at 2012’s Giant Pumpkin Carving Weekend at the New York Botanical Garden.

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Photo: Image courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden/Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen

Master Blaster

Pumpkin artisan and carver Ray Villafane and the carving he created for the New York Botanical Garden in 2011.

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