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Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England picked a bizarre Red Delicious apple off his tree. It looks as if someone stuck together half of a green apple and half of a red apple, but these colors are natural.
John Breach, chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, said: ‘I’ve never seen this happen before to a Golden Delicious. It is extremely rare. It is an extreme mutation.
‘There has been the occasional case of this type reported. If there was a whole branch of apples with the same colouring then fruit experts would get even more excited.’
Jim Arbury, fruit superintendent at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, said it was probably the ‘result of a random genetic mutation’.
‘This is known as a chimera where one of the first two cells has developed differently giving rise to one half of the apple being different,’ he said.
Morrish is keeping the apple in his refrigerator because so many people want to see it. Link -via J-Walk Blog
(image credit: Archant Devon)
A rare yellow lobster was caught off the coast of Canada and given to Nathan Nickerson, owner of the Cape Cod restaurant Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar.
Yellow lobsters get their name from their appearance of having been boiled, caused by a genetic mutation and is as rare as 1 in 30 million:
New England Aquarium director of research Michael Tlusty said a rare genetic mutation produces yellow lobsters. Life isn’t easy for such animals — their bright colors make it easy for predators to spot them.
Nickerson said the predators at his restaurant will never get a hold of Fiona. He said it would be like steaming a Rembrandt.
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