Dawn in the UK sent me this curious item that appeared in today's edition of the
Daily Express. It's about an orange that shopper Patrick Hurt found inside of an apple.
Mr. Hurt, 36, from Kiveton Park, South Yorks, said: "Apart from what was inside the apple looked perfectly normal. I have no idea how the orange got in there and I have never seen anything like it in my life." Greg Tucker, professor of plant biochemistry at Nottingham University, said: "The effect may have arisen through developmental mutation. It's not unheard of for flowers to become misformed. It is caused by mutations in some key genes. It is conceivable that a similar mutation occurred in this fruit."
Now I could understand if the interior of the apple was simply deformed so that it resembled an orange. That might be developmental mutation. But an actual orange spontaneously growing inside of an apple due to a gene mutation doesn't seem believable. Click on the thumbnail for a larger view of the scanned article.
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There are no bites taken out of the apple. How did the guy figure this out w/o biting it. Sure, he could have cut it, but why would he have stopped at the halfway point & then cut around it the way you would cut around a fruit with a pod instead of tiny seeds. (As in, he sort of cut it like you'd cut an avacado...)
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My $.02
Based on this evidence, I would guess that the "orange in the apple" is a deformity of the apple.
maybe there was an orange seed put inside a newly growing apple....but i fink this is real
For one. The chemicals in the apple would inhibit any orange seed from germinating otherwise what would prevent apple seeds from growing and germinating within their own fruiting bodies.
If a pre-germinated orange seed were placed it would take years for a mature tree to grow large enough to produce an orange let alone the near impossibility of an orange flower being germinated while entirely isolated within an apple.
The only likely possibility is a chimera where orange tissue from a graft somehow produced a part apple and part orange flower. Even at this rate it is even more unlikely that the flower would produce a portion of each fruit let alone an entire fruit within the other.
It is possible to have an apple within an apple. Flowers could grow close enough to each other where a fruit could engulf another or a mutated flower or even a flower that was damaged or split by an insect or virus but somehow managed to accept pollination.
Every one who thinks an orange seed could germ within an apple to produce another orange needs to go back to elementary school. Really!