Field guide No. 1156

Apple tree branches heavy with small red apples have dark curved blades pinned among them. The orchard has put up a notice in the only way it knows.

Open season

Fruit watched from the thorns.

Apple tree branches heavy with small red apples have dark curved blades pinned among them. The orchard has put up a notice in the only way it knows.

Field noteDark curved blades are pinned among the apples, as the orchard’s own notice to pickers.

Specimen
No. 1156
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
An orchard with no thorns.
Nearest existing relative
an apple branch heavy with fruit.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking category