Looking it up, it turns out it’s an actual turnip, carved to look like this.
https://www.keeplaughingforever.com/post/turnips-grown-into-legs-and-feet
Not trying to downplay how cool the piece is, but the artists website says it’s acrylic urethane with real Daikon leaves:
This looks like AI, too many details in the toes, rest of the foot, legs and knees. It would be a wonder to find one such turnip, let alone a matching one
I wonder if this an evolution of the square watermelons known in Japan.
I doubt you could make it have this level of details and I think that technique cannot be used for stuff that is grown in the soil
You’re probably right, and this in particular seems to be a sculpture with a turnip plant glued on top, per @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
Crazy how nature do dat.