Comments on: An Apple with a Split Personality

By: Neslock

Neslock — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:36:34 +0000

Halieus, I was glad to see your post because the one in a million claim about this apple is (as far as I know) not factually true. I managed several different produce departments over a 16 year period, and I did occasionally run across apples exactly like this. I even remember placing one or more exactly on the dividing line between the red delicious and gold delicious displays.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:46:16 +0000

Fascinating! It’s like the blue lobster of fruits.

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:37:05 +0000

“Since when does Nature occur in a straight line?”

Crystals.

By: NdS

NdS — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:24:04 +0000

If you plant the seeds would there be more multicoloured apples? That would be awesome!

By: ted

ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:23:30 +0000

Red paint’ll do it, too.

By: halieus

halieus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:35:02 +0000

My dad had an orchard and he’s found a few of these apples. If you know what branch it came from then you could, in theory, graft it onto other trees to make lots of multi-colored apples.

By: FishBottleT

FishBottleT — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:20:17 +0000

Probably better than a Grapple- an apple that tastes like grapes!!! It does exist- weird though.

By: horned_one24

horned_one24 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:58:37 +0000

Is it bad of me to want to eat it. It must be delicious!

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:52:14 +0000

A Truly Neat Post!

By: Eva Phoenix

Eva Phoenix — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:41:32 +0000

I took the following picture at Keukenhof in Holland. It is a bi-colored lily. I’ve seen them with individual different colored petals but never with one petal split down the middle.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendI D=219388084&albumID=762530&imageID=9098351

By: MelissaVT

MelissaVT — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:41:21 +0000

Cool. One of my roses did this once – I have a pale pink rose that produced a flower with one petal that was half normal, half bright pink. Now I know why. And yes, the division was in a straight line, exactly like that apple. Too bad there’s no way to make it happen predictably, I’d love to see a flower with all split petals like that.

By: Zecc

Zecc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:22:57 +0000

Permalink: http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/two-colored_apple/

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:15:16 +0000

Chimerism happens in people, very rarely. Two eggs get fertilized, begin to divide, then come in contact with each other and merge. Most of the time, you’d never know they were a chimera, unless the two were different shades, or genders. It happens more often in test tube babies.

By: felixthecat

felixthecat — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:08:01 +0000

Is it possible to blanch an apple?

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:53:00 +0000

Since when does Nature occur in a straight line?

By: Jf

Jf — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:05:39 +0000

Just don’t eat it like the carrot guy did.

By: VM

VM — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:26:53 +0000

Oh my, that’s so close to the apple the Witch gives Snow White in the Grimm Brothers’ version!