Remember my spoof about the local farmer who had successfully crossed two fruit trees to get a gin and tonic flavoured fruit.Well this time the story is for real – it appears in the newspaper Laverdad (the truth).
A farmer in Elche has come across one of his trees that has produced a unique form of fruit – the lemon/orange.
This is not an experiment from the laboratory, it is the result of a natural crossing of the two fruit. Normally nature does not permit the cross pollination of different species but in this case it has broken its own rules.
So far, the farmer has not tried to eat the fruit to see if the flavours are mixed but is intrigued to see that the skin is a mixture of the two as you can see in the photo.
Apparently the other fruit on the tree are 100% oranges and there are no other similar trees on the famers plot nor have any other farmers in the region reported similar crosses. This appears to be a one off.
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