Red-and-Green Apple 半紅半綠的蘋果

   
    Call it an identity crisis, call it a freak of nature, but here's one little apple that wanted to get noticed.
    Ken Morrish is stunned after growing a Golden Delicious apple split down the middle – one half is RED and the other GREEN.

    The one-in-a-million fruit has caused such a sensation in his village that friends and neighbours have been queuing up to take pictures of the incredible specimen.
   
    Sceptics might say that the apple may not be an entirely natural phenomenon and that it’s down to some fairly precise artwork, but the retired painter and decorator insists it’s the real deal.

    Ken, 72, said: “I couldn't believe my eyes. It's absolutely phenomenal.”

    He spotted the split personality apple as he picked them for his sister-in-law.

    "The red and green split through the stem is totally perfect – as if I've painted it."

    "It's a genuine one-off and none of us have ever seen an apple like it before"

    Mr Morrish, of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, took the extraordinary fruit to experts at nearby rural Bicton College, which specialises in the countryside and horticulture, for closer examination.

    "They took pictures of it and had never come across anything like it either.

    "It's caused a real stir in the village."

    "People have been coming round to see it and take photos of it. "(Daily Mail)

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    中新網9月28日電 英國德文郡有一個種蘋果的老先生，日前發現他家的蘋果樹上，有一顆奇特的蘋果，這顆蘋果是截然分明的一半紅，一半綠，也完全沒有漸進層，紅綠兩個顏色分得清清楚楚，連農業專家也大呼不可思議。 

    據台灣中廣新聞網報道，這位名叫莫裏斯的老先生說，最近他在查看果園的時候，無意中發現，有棵蘋果樹上長了一個奇怪的蘋果，半紅半綠，而且紅綠兩種顏色，從中間完美分開；老先生原本以為是有人故意給他的蘋果塗色，沒想到走近一看，才發現這是純天然的雙色蘋果。

   莫裏斯小心翼翼地把這顆蘋果摘下來，請教了許多園藝專家。專家表示，這種奇特的現象，應該是蘋果在生長過程中基因突變而產生的，這種幾率只有百萬分之一。




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