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This is a true story in Children Fiction Books. This short story sounds like something that happens only in Children Fiction but hey, in this world of changes, anything unexpected can happen.

What if the world was to turn topsy turvy and the order of things became ambiguous? What if black was not black and white was not white? What if there was no mixture of black and white to make grey but half of the object was white and the other half black?

What if you wanted an apple but you got one that is half ripe and half unripe? Have you ever seen an apple that is half red and half green? A man with an apple tree in his garden was flabbergasted when he saw one such weird apple in his tree in his garden.

Ken Morrish, living in the UK, has an apple that is half red and half green. Morrish could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the bi-toned apple on his tree. Moorish harvested the apple and kept it in his fridge for his neighbors. They come by and take pictures of the naturally weird looking apple.

As Mr Morrish’s bi-colored apple’s fame spread far and wide, experts weighed in on the chances of finding an apple that was divided by two colors. Botanists and horticulturists said the chances are one in a million. The red and green split colored apple was likely the cause of a random gene mutation. This phenomenon is called the chimera. One of the first two cells of the apple developed with a mutation that caused half of the apple to look different. The other cell developed in the normal way to give the red half of the apple.

Will Mr Morrish be getting more of the two colored apples in the future? If the mutation is stable, then the tree will bear more fruit with two colors.

There are striped pears and apples. One striped pear has been kept in the RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, UK. The striped pear has been named as the Pysanka.

Have you seen split colored natural objects? Please share!