Photos and videos of the tree sprouted with beautiful fruits were shared by one Facebook user called Barima Nana Osei Bonsu, which sparked the interest of a lot of Ghanaians as the fruits looked like an apple.
However, the Senior Lecturer at the Department of Horticulture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Irene Idan, confirmed to a Luv FM reporter that the fruits were not apples as speculated.
“The leaves don’t resemble that of apples, also the skin of an apple is very smooth but this is rough. When we cut the fruit, its internal formation doesn’t resemble an apple. The apple has thick mesocarp with long peduncle with seeds attached to it and that’ll be sitting in the pericarp,” she said.
According to Dr Idan characteristics of the supposed apple fruit can be likened to a fig fruit instead.
“It’s more of a fig than an apple,” she said.
She concluded by stressing that, there is not much to be jubilant over the discovery of the fruit in Wiamoase as it is nothing like an apple tree.
Meanwhile, starrfm.com.gh has reported that the Ashanti regional directorate of Agriculture has taken a sample of the fruit for laboratory test. Read Full Story
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