Field guide No. 1157

Red apples sit embedded in the underside and flanks of a thick mossy branch in a sunlit orchard instead of hanging from it. The tree has decided to keep its apples close.

Orchard apples defy gravity

Fruit grown in, not on.

Red apples sit embedded in the underside and flanks of a thick mossy branch in a sunlit orchard instead of hanging from it. The tree has decided to keep its apples close.

Field noteApples grow embedded in the underside of a thick mossy branch instead of hanging; the tree took the brief literally.

Specimen
No. 1157
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
An orchard that lets fruit fall.
Nearest existing relative
apples on a mossy bough.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics